THE SINGH FAMILY
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Kashmir (Kash) Singh (Omi Puri)
Kash Singh is the Indian owner of the Singh & Sons Convenience store. He is a stern and strict man who always demands to be in control of his family despite their desires to break free. He is quite old and believes that his children should behave like he did when he was young and rules over them like his father did him. Kash is a deeply worried man as his family is often branded by the residents at the “outcasts” of Baymoore as they don’t make many friends. His family business is also often vandalised ad his family abused by young racist thugs who come from all around Torbay.
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Sanjita Singh (Meera Syal)
Sanjita Singh is the young wife of Kash Singh and mother to the Singh clan. She is a woman who is yearning to break away from her imprisoned marriage to Kash. She has never really loved him as it was an arranged marriage and wishes life had been different for her. She isn’t the perfect wife or mother and Kash reminds her of that all the time. Infact it is fair to say that he makes her life hell. She is young at heart and always wants to go out with the girls and has an eye for members of the opposite sex to Kash’s disapproval.
Rubina (Ruby) Singh (Archie Panjabi)
Rubina is the young and flirtatious daughter of Kash and Sanjita Singh. Like her mother she feels trapped by her father and wants to explore the world, and the most of the time she’ll argue with her father and do it anyway. She is a flirt, and dresses accordingly, she likes to part of the girly group and often arrives home late or the next morning which spurs even more arguments between her and her father.
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Andonis Singh (Ray Panthaki)
Andonis Singh is the son of Kash and Sanjita Singh. He is still at school and is the school heart throb, but his heart is set on only one girl: Emma Andrews who is currently dating, but sometimes he lets his trousers do the thinking and ends up in bed with other girls, this jack the lad attitude means that his Father resents him, but as Andonis is his oldest son, he tries to get along with him and is set on Andonis taking over the family business, even tough Andonis wants to go to University.
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Mohammed Singh (Rahual Das)
Mohammed is the young and intelligent son of Kash and Sanjita Singh. He is a boy who is pressurised by his father to achieve the best at school. He has extra torturing and is totally pushed to the extreme to work to get a place at a grammar school. He doesn’t want all the fuss and hard work and yearns to be just a normal boy like Daniel and Ross, but his father spoils him so he does as he’s told. He doesn’t really have any friends.
Iqbal Singh (Jimmi Harkishin)
Iqbal is the young and talented brother of Kash who along with his family move into Baymoore a couple of months into the soap. He and his family have seen the world and he totally disagrees with Kash’s way of life. He comes to try and tell Kash to change his way of life, but ends up opening a rival shop against his brother. He and Kash have never really been best of brothers but with the competition its clear that isn’t bout to change. Sanjita will fall in love and declare her feelings for Iqbal but what will he do?
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Marcus (Marc) Singh (Chris Bisson)
Marc is the son of Iqbal Singh. He comes to Baymoore with his father to have a closer relationship with his Uncle Kash and family. His mother has just died and it has affected him very much. He is a ladies man and is basically an older version that Andonis. He fancies himself too much and often presumes that the opposite sex think the same about him. He will fall in love and date his cousin Ruby, with this being one of the year's biggest storylines.
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Mother/Granny Singh (Surendra Kochar)
Mother to Kash and Iqbal Singh, and grandmother to all of her son’s children, she is never actually referred to by her real name. She is a comical grandmother like on the Kumar’s. She comes to Baymoore occasionally but doesn’t live their, she comes when there’s a special occasions or family crisis, she is the most forgettable, clumsily and comical character on the whole of the show. The Singh’s dread it when she visits.