For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click here. Otherwise, British Indian Anjli has been desperate to avoid letting her background define her acting career - and she revealed this week that she even used to list her ethnicity as white when applying for roles. "Positive stories are absolutely the focus, that's where we need the focus going forwards," she continued. FLITTING between the wide-eyes of a trembling terror victim and a the warped smirk of a jihadi mastermind, Nadiya was one of the most memorable characters to be tied up in the plot of BBC's smash hit Bodyguard. For example - the gender-authenticity uproar on social media that followed the first episode of Bodyguard revealed just how far we have to go in our battle of dismantling tropes. Fast-forward about 10 years and everything’s come full circle: my skin colour has become a national talking point because I played an Islamic suicide bomber in the most-watched TV drama in over a decade. Just like life.". "Bodyguard will always be an incredible experience," the star told Digital Spy. And I wished I was white. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. As Anjli puts it: "It’s definitely time for the embarrassed lunchbox kid to stand up and embrace who she is - British and Indian, and proud.". I just wanted to fit in – especially after a stint at an Armed Forces School (my dad worked in the British Army) where I was the only ethnic minority kid out of 2000 and people recoiled at the smell of my Indian packed lunch. "It's incredibly difficult because when making it, when reading it, you bring so much as an actor that you hope that's what comes across to the audience," she expressed. The nation has been gripped by BBC drama Bodyguard for the past six weeks. I was able to give her a personal backstory which I then felt compelled to bring to life. Thankfully, Anjli was won over by the depth of the role - and claimed that taking on the part of a bomb-making mastermind turned out to be "empowering". My character was Indian but it wasn’t her defining trait, and Russell writes cultural-inclusivity into his scripts so brilliantly that there were subtle nods to her ethnicity without any of the associated clichés. "The roles might not be changing, but what is changing is the community spirit," she discussed. But despite her protests, Anjli's memorable performance as twitching, terrified Nadiya - laden with explosives in a train toilet - isn't the first time she's played a terrorist... or worn a hijab for a part. Following that dramatic Bodyguard finale, actress Anjli Mohindra writes a personal account on what the show has meant for her. View our online Press Pack. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Anyone (Muslim or otherwise) can be driven to inhumane actions if they’re constantly vilified and dehumanised. However, Anjli almost declined the role in the year's biggest drama because she was concerned the character was a stereotype. "I've got together with a group of fellow South Asian actors to see what it is we want to do, our angle of responsibility, so we can change things. "As a human living in this country, I feel so frustrated that 9.9 out of 10 times I watch TV, the makers have missed an opportunity to diverse the in cast some way and be more inclusive," Mohindra concluded. "Because there are so many stories we can tell that ill-serve those communities and many other communities.

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