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“ | I'm a woman of my word! If people cross me, they intend to regret it! Just ask the last man who got in my way! | „ |
~ Suki Panesar threatening Ian Beale to not cross her amid their business partnership. |
“ | Let me tell you something as a friend... no one crosses me twice! | „ |
~ Suki Panesar revealing her true colors to Jean Slater about not having cancer. |
Suki Panesar is an anti-hero of the long-running British soap opera EastEnders. She served as the secondary antagonist in 2020-2021, a supporting character in 2022 and one of the main protagonists in 2023-2024 onwards.
In her characterization, Suki is the matriarch of the Panesar Family and the wife of her estranged husband Nish Panesar. She is also the mother of their daughter Ash along with her brothers Kheerat, Jags, and Vinny altogether.
She is portrayed by Balvinder Sopal.
Biography[]
Suki Panesar first came to Albert Square in Walford along with her family in January 2020. Along with Suki was her three sons Kheerat Panesar alongside his two brothers Jags Panesar and Vinny Panesar, as well as Suki's daughter Ash Kaur.
As the family settle in the square, Suki began to establish her mark by forging a friendship with local resident Jean Slater over the latter's relapsing with her cancer ordeal. Suki claims that she too is dying from a terminal illness, which her family believes; however, Jean later discovers this to be false and exposes Suki's deception in front of her family. Suki's children are outraged with their mother, but she firmly puts them in their place and later threatens Jean to not mess with her.
A few months later, Suki gets involved in another of her children's shenanigans when Vinny commits a robbery at the local market owned by Martin Fowler. Though angry with Vinny's recklessness, Suki decides to cover up his involvement by implicating Jags as the perpetrator,-in retribution for Jags defying his mother's disapproval of his relationship with Habiba Ahmed. Thereafter Jags gets arrested and sent to prison for a crime he never committed. Once more Ash is angry with her mother, but Suki is unfazed and simply puts her in her place again.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Suki buys the local shop and starts to build an empire of her own. She crosses paths with the Mitchell and Slater families on multiple occasions. First off she teams up with nightclub owner Ruby Allen, daughter of the late gangland boss Johnny Allen, to deal with the Slaters over their feud, and later catches the attention of the square's local hardman Phil Mitchell after attempting to blackmail his son Ben Mitchell over their criminal activities. Suki also comes into conflict with Phil's former stepson and Ben's half-brother Ian Beale over a business partnership and she later threatens him for attempting to dismiss her threats. Ian is later attacked by a mystery assailant, soon revealed to be Phil, and along with Kheerat, avoid suspicion on the incident.
By 2021, Suki and Kheerat have been expanding their business empire, to the point where Suki makes enemies with both Phil's relative Honey Mitchell after her son Will steals from her shop, and Jean's daughter Stacey alongside her cousin Kat. At the same time, Suki attempts to sway Kheerat from investigating Phil's lawyer Gray Atkins over his assumptions that Gray abused and killed his wife Chantelle, whom Kheerat had fallen in love with during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In June 2021, Suki is shocked to learn that Jags has died in prison. She immediately accuses Ben as the Mitchells had promised to give Jags protection, but Kheerat makes her realize that she herself is to blame for everything that has happened. Suki dismisses her family, even when Vinny attempts to apologize by admitting the truth to Ben's policeman husband Callum Highway.
In August 2022, Suki was approached by her old acquaintance Ranveer Gulati for a lucrative business partnership. She grows unsettled when it becomes clear that Ranveer is sexually harassing her and is merely wanting to proposition her for sex. Later on, she seemingly agrees to their partnership and invites him to finalize the paperwork at her house. He subsequently visits her to complete the deal, but then discovers that Suki had taped him admitting to his inappropriate sexual advances.
Enraged, Ranveer lashes out at Suki and attempts to rape her. Suki manages to fend him off by hitting Ranveer over the head with a clock in self-defense, seemingly killing him as a result. Thereafter Ranvver's adopted son, Ravi Gulati, intervenes and finds out what has happened. Ravi helps Suki cover-up the crime and tells her to leave. However, while she is gone, Ranveer wakes up and lashes out at Ravi for betraying him. This causes Ravi to retaliate by hitting his adopted father over the head with the same clock that Suki used in self-defense, this time killing Ranveer. Shortly afterwards, Ravi lets Suki believe that she killed him after covering-up Ranveer's murder.
A few months later, Suki's children find out about the incident and visit her for support. The situation becomes more complicated for Suki when she gets reacquainted with her estranged husband Nish Panesar, who is released from prison after spending 20 years in jail for murder. By then, Suki has begun a relationship with Stacey's lodger Eve Unwin and even confines to her about the incident with Ranveer that led to his death in the end.
Trivia[]
- Balvinder Sopal (the actress who played Suki Panesar) was longlisted for Best Villain at the 2020 Inside Soap Awards.
- Although she hasn't killed anyone, Suki is indirectly responsible for the death of her son Jags in prison; as she did set him up to go to prison for the crime which his brother, Vinny, committed simply because Jags refused to do as his mother says.
- She is one of the few characters to turn from an antagonist to a protagonist.
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