New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- At the 23rd Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, British actor Hugh Grant revealed that his family has roots in the Indian subcontinent. Speaking at the event, the 64-year-old actor said his father - a soldier - was born in British India in 1928.

"My father was a soldier. In fact, he was born in India. I had to find his birth certificate, and it was really tough. It was some obscure town in the north of India. It may well be Pakistan now," Grant said, adding with a smile, "He was born in either India or Pakistan. I guess that makes me half Indian, really."

Recalling his first visit to India in 1988 Grant also revisited memories of his first trip to India in 1988, when he filmed La Nuit Bengali (The Bengali Night) in K...