Kulvinder Ghir, one of the stars of the award-winning Goodness Gracious Me, has said more needs to be done to Improve Asian Representation on television and in film, 25 years on from the comedy show’s first broadcast. The BBC sketch show, which aired between 1998 and 2001, is seen as having been instrumental in changing perceptions of the south Asian community in the UK, challenging racism and paving the way for its stars, who included Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. Ghir said he was moved by the impact the show had had on the cultural landscape. But he said more British Asian historical dramas needed to be commissioned, and writers were too restricted by a need to be contemporary. He said: “If we don’t talk about the past, we can’t sort out the future. So we need to look back. I wanted to write a film called Dusky Warriors, which is about the Sikh soldiers in the first world war, and I thought, OK, we’ve never seen Asians in a period drama and …

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