Saeed Jaffrey

Saeed Jaffrey OBE is an Indian actor based in the United Kingdom, who has appeared in numerous British and Indian movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab. His film credits include The Man Who Would Be King , Shatranj Ke Khiladi , Gandhi , A Passage to India , The Far Pavilions , and My Beautiful Laundrette . He has also appeared in many Bollywood films in the 1980s and 1990s. For television he has starred in Gangsters , The Jewel in the Crown , Tandoori Nights and Little Napoleons . He also appeared as Ravi Desai on Coronation Street as the father of Vikram Desai, the cousin of Dev Alahan and in Minder as Mr Mukerjee in Series 1 episode The Bengal Tiger.