He has been a regular visitor to the East London home she shares with her daughter from her 12-year marriage to journalist Shekhar Bhatia.
Despite being separated from Bhatia for four years, Miss Syal has remained close to him and only divorced last year.
She was made an MBE in 1997 and is on the list of Britain's richest-Asians with an estimated £4million fortune.
Her parents, who arrived in Britain from Delhi in the early 1960s, settled in the mining village of Essington, Staffordshire, where they were the only Asian family in the area.
Miss Syal later used her childhood experiences as the basis of her semi-autobiographical bestselling novel Anita And Me, which was turned into a film.
Bhaskar joined Miss Syal, Kulvinder Ghir and Nina Wadia in 1996 to launch Goodness Gracious Me which started life on Radio 4 before crossing over to TV two years later.
After a sell-out theatre tour and three series, he went on to create The Kumars At Number 42.
The Kumars' success was not confined to TV. They also had success in the pop charts with their charity single, Spirit In The Sky, which was performed with Gareth Gates and went to Number One in
2003.
The newlyweds are currently working on the movie version of another of Miss Syal's novels, Life Isn't All Ha Ha, Hee Hee.
