- Shobu Kapoor
Shobu Kapoor(b.1969) is a
British Asian actress.She is most famous for playing the role of
Gita Kapoor , the long suffering wife of the market-trader Sanjay (Deepak Verma ), in the popularBBC soap opera , "EastEnders " (1993-1998). During her time on the show, Kapoor's character battled through her husband's infidelity with her sister Meena,IVF , and finally fell pregnant with another man's child in a storyline that saw her absent from the show for a 9 month stint. Actually Kapoor was written out of the soap for an extended period as she was herself on maternity leave.Kapoor left the show in 1998 and has since had roles in the 2002
film "Bend It Like Beckham "; "The Bill " (2004); the Asian comedy "Chicken Tikka Masala" (2005); "Casualty" (2005) and "Doctors" (2000; 2001; 2006; 2008).In 2006 Shobu appeared in the BBC drama "Banglatown Banquet", which told the story of a young
Bangladesh i woman (played byShabana Azmi ), who lives nearLondon 'sBrick Lane and relishes her new-found freedom after her children grow up and leave home. Kapoor appears as her friend Joolie, enrols on a night-class course and takes up gardening on an allotment.Kapoor Played Taj's mother in the film "" — sequel to the 2002 hit film "
Van Wilder " — which was released on December 1, 2006.In 2006 she played Talayeh Kirmani in the Irish soap "
Fair City " on RTE and in 2007 she played the minor role of Umi in theChannel 4 drama, "Shameless".In 2008, she appeared in the series finale of
Doctor Who .She is currently playing the regular role of Shazia Malik on the BBC Asian Network radio soap
Silver Street .External links
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