As the fourth episode of Ms Marvel drops today, we sit down with Anjali Bhimani who plays the hilarious gossiping auntie to find out more about the show and what makes her tick.
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“My mission is to tell stories of love, hope and joy for queer, Muslim characters and thus, queer, Muslim people. We need and deserve to see ourselves at the center of the story.”
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“The beauty of music is that it is universal and many people can relate to trying every day to manage anxiety and depression.”
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Rishi was the first vegetarian MasterChef contender to cook only vegan and vegetarian food and also introduced the nation to more traditional Indian dishes like Gujarati kadi. Although his MasterChef path ended in the quarter finals, his journey with cooking is only just beginning. Here he talks to us about his inspiration, why he chose to do only vegetarian and vegan dishes and show more traditional Indian cooking, what his experience of MasterChef was like behind the scenes, his recipe blog Dish by Rish, and his plans for the future.
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Having started her dessert company, Oh So Yum six years ago, British Indian businesswoman Harpreet Kaur went on the televised national entrepreneurship competition, The Apprentice, hosted by Lord Sugar, this year and won. We sat down with the inspirational founder to find out what makes her tick, what she plans to do with her £250,000 investment prize money and her experience as a female south Asian entrepreneur.
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“Let's not pretend that people from India were accepted in aristocratic society in the way that we're saying, you know, it's a fantasy at the end of the day, but on a personal level, on an emotional level, I think that it's worth exploring.”
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I want to be a villain in a fantasy movie. I want to be a villain in a Harry Potter-like or a Marvel-type franchise movie!
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“Growing up playing football there wasn’t many Asian girls playing. I think I was the only one that I knew of until I moved to Univeristy at 18. I want to help break down the barriers that may stop south Asian girls be able to take part in football and show how much good this sport / any sport can actually do for them and their families.”
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“I have auditioned for so many stereotypes. I've had to do the accent, I've had to wear a headscarf, even though I'm Hindu and not Muslim. And I'm getting scripts to direct plotlines that revolve around arranged marriage. And I'm like, Yes, that's a small part of our culture. But why do we keep pushing that in the story? It pushed me to write my own script and to create the role that I wanted to play"
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“So there were definitely parts that my dad was just like, I didn’t agree there, but if he doesn’t agree, I feel like I'm doing something right.”
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Having started in Bodyguard, the BBC’s most popular drama in decade, Anjli Mohindra tells us what it’s like to be a British south Asian actress.
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Within a year of her novel releasing, it became a New York Times best-seller, was picked up by Reece Witherspoon for her book club and is in the process of being made into a show produced by and staring Frieda Pinto. Meet Alka Joshi. We sit down to talk about her phenomenal success, her nuanced depiction of India and the realities of being a south Asian woman.
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The global actress tells us all about her new book, the plans to influx Hollywood with south Asian talent and what life is like now that she’s married.
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