HE’S best known for playing a quick-witted shopkeeper in a traditional, family-run business in Craiglang.

But Still Game star Sanjeev Kohli is encouraging youngsters to have no fear of following an unconventional career path if it’s one they’re passionate about.

The actor will be speaking at Young Enterprise Scotland’s Festival of Youth Enterprise - a two-day networking event for young people who are interested in making headway in business.

Sanjeev has had to be enterprising in his career to date – he started out on a medical degree and moved to maths, before being discovered on a radio magazine show.

He said: “I started off on a totally different path from where I am now, so I suppose I’ve taken an unconventional route.

“I had no idea what I wanted to do after getting my maths degree.

"I was really lucky that someone recognised the potential in me and asked me to audition for a radio magazine show.

"The first time I did it, I felt like I had been doing it all my life.

“After that, I thought I would go down the journalistic route but people began to take notice of the funny links I was making between sections on the show - and that’s when the comedy side of things began.

“I got into comedy writing and comedy acting, and then onto sketch writing and acting.

"It was a very organic process.”

At the festival, which takes place at Hampden Park on June 5 and 6, Sanjeev will be encouraging youngsters to follow whichever path they’re passionate about - no matter how unusual that may be.