Gulati has also appeared on the TV quiz shows Call My Bluff, Have I Got News for You, The Weakest Link and as Diana Ross in Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes.

Danny has a brief fling with Sunita Parekh ( Shobna Gulati ) shortly after his arrival but Sunita does not know he is married and is very hurt when Frankie shows up on his doorstep.

During Shelley's six years on the show she was friends with Sunita Alahan ( Shobna Gulati ) and was involved in high profile storylines such as discovering her husband Peter Barlow ( Chris Gascoyne ) is a bigamist and later being beaten up by her then boyfriend Charlie Stubbs ( Bill Ward ).

Shobna Gulati ( born 7 August 1966 ) is a British actress, writer, and dancer of Indian origin, best known for playing Anita in Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies, and Sunita Alahan in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2006, a role to which she returned at the end of 2009.

In the late 1990s, she received excellent reviews for her work in Victoria Wood's BBC sitcom dinnerladies ; in 2001, she appeared in the short film Shadowscan, directed by Tinge Krishnan, which won a BAFTA Award ; and in 2004 Gulati was nominated for a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for her work in the play Dancing within walls, which was staged at the Contact Theatre in Manchester.

After she left Coronation Street in 2006, Gulati played Nisha Clayton, a recurring role in the final series of Where the Heart Is and made appearances in New Street Law and the one-off comedy drama Magnolia which was written by Dave Spikey for the BBC's Comedy Playhouse series.

After the reading, which moved the actress to tears, Gulati said she believed they showed that Shafilea was trapped between two cultures.

Several weeks later, Owen decides to take revenge against an unsuspecting Eileen, after she tells Sunita Alahan ( Shobna Gulati ) about his dodgy paper work.

Dev rekindled his love for ex-girlfriend Sunita Parekh ( Shobna Gulati ) when he discovers she has a brain tumour.

On one occasion, when Claire Peacock ( Julia Haworth ) is babysitting Sunita Alahan ( Shobna Gulati )' s son Aadi, she is called to hospital for a family emergency, and asks Sophie to look after the children.

At a press conference appealing for more information about the teenager's death, Gulati read out some of the poems found in her bedroom by police during their investigations which " were a testimony to her sadness at being caught in a culture clash with other members of her family ".

Gulati is the first leader of a youth wing of a major Norwegian political party with multi-cultural background.

A tram then derails off the viaduct and smashes into the front of the already damaged corner shop, crushing Molly, who is inside with baby Jack and her former boss Sunita Alahan ( Shobna Gulati ).

When Leanne, Stella and Eva learn that Stella's partner Karl Munro ( John Michie ) has been having an affair with Sunita Alahan ( Shobna Gulati ), Leanne strongly supports her mother.

In 2008 Gulati made her debut as a filmmaker, producing the short film Akshay for the motiroti's 60x60 Secs.

It showed Maya, played by Sasha Behar, threatening Sunita ( Shobna Gulati ), saying her husband would come home to find her " beaten to death by Ganesh ", the God of good fortune.

Gulati has recently been seen as one of many storytellers in the CBBC revival of Jackanory and in the UK tour of the hit play Girls Night by Louise Roche.

Gulati has a good working knowledge of six languages and is a vocal supporter of Asian women's rights and various anti-racism campaigns.

Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

He stood on the porch and watched him struggling with the heavy harness, and finally went over to help him.

I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.

He went prone on his stomach, the better to pursue his examination.

Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.

She went on:

There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.

`` Anyway '', Waddell went on.

`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.

`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

He went on to use objects -- hoops, poles, capes -- which he employed as extensions of the body of the dancer, who moved with them.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

`` This is a horrible way to live '', Wright went on.

The parents compromised, however, on a convent school and Paula went to Ursuline Academy in London, Ontario.

`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.