Thursday, March 25, 2010

Amrish Puri- The Undisputed King of Bollywood Baddies

Born on June 22, 1932 Amrish Puri was an iconic theater and film actor of bollywood. This actor had worked with some of the notable playwrights of the time like Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad. He played various roles in Hindi cinema but he is popularly remembered for playing some iconic negative roles. One of his most popular role has bee Mogambo from the movie Mr. India. He also worked in a hollywood movie called Indiana Jones and the temple of doom. He played the character called Mola Ram in this movie.

Amrish Puri

Amrish Puri was born in Punjab. His parents were Lala Nihal Chand and Ved Kaur. The actor did his graduation from Himachal Pradesh. Amrish was supported by his brother Madan Puri in Mumbai because Madan himself was an established actor at that time. You will be surprised to know that Amrish got failed in his first screen test. He found a jod for himself with LIC.

Along with the LIC job, Amrish kept on working with the Prithvi Theater. Slowly he became a well known stage-actor. He also won the Sangit Natak Akadami Award. Afterwards he also got certain tv commercials to work with. Amrish had worked in over 400 movies and will always be remembered as a great actor with an effective voice. In January 2005 this great actor passed away. He was indeed the undisputed king of Bollywood baddies.

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