From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Saeed Jaffrey OBE 1929 2015 was an Indianborn British actor who made numerous British movies He was born in Malerkotla Punjab His film credits included The Man Who Would Be King 1975 Shatranj Ke Khiladi The Chess Players 1977 Gandhi 1982 A Passage to India 1965 BBC version and 1984 film and My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 He also appeared in many Bollywood films in the 1980s and 1990s For television he has starred in Gangsters 19751978 The Jewel in the Crown 1984 Tandoori Nights 19851987 and Little Napoleons 1994 He also appeared as Ravi Desai on Coronation Street as the father of Vikram Desai the cousin of Dev Alahan and in Minder TV series as Mr Mukerjee in Series 1 episode The Bengal Tiger Description above from the Wikipedia article Saeed Jaffrey licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia