Overview
- He made the remarks at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2025 in Delhi during a conversation with actor Rahul Khanna.
- Grant said his father, a soldier born in British India in 1928 and now 97, leads him to call himself “half Indian” or “half Pakistani.”
- He recounted struggling to locate his father’s birth certificate for a visa application, noting the birthplace in northern British India may lie in present-day Pakistan.
- He recalled filming La Nuit Bengali in Calcutta in 1988 and said he was swept into Kolkata high society, from cocktail parties to polo.
- He added that he knows little of Indian cinema beyond seeing bits of Satyajit Ray’s work, and he joked that his mother once ranked actors with prostitutes and wished he would enter the church.