Asrani

About Asrani

Asrani is an actor and supporting actor working in Hindi cinema and English cinema. Clapnumber holds 300 titles for Asrani, from Parivartan in 1949 to Haiwaan in 2026. By decade, that is 1 in the 1940s, 1 in the 1950s, 3 in the 1960s, 77 in the 1970s, 81 in the 1980s, 51 in the 1990s, 46 in the 2000s, 21 in the 2010s and 18 in the 2020s. Those titles are mostly comedy, drama and romance.

Biography

Govardhan Kumar Asrani (1 January 1941 – 20 October 2025) was an Indian actor and film director. His career in Indian cinema spanned over five decades, during which he appeared in over 350 Hindi and Gujarati films. Asrani worked in lead, character, comedic, and supporting roles. He is particularly noted for his role as the Jailor in Sholay, caricaturing Hitler, and Amadavad no Rikshavaro and for his appearances in 25 films with Rajesh Khanna as the lead actor between 1972 and 1991. In Hindi cinema, he appeared in several comic roles from 1966 to 2014 and frequently portrayed the close friend of the lead actor in films between 1972 and 1995. He appeared in multiple films directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Priyadarshan. In some Hindi films, including Chala Murari Hero Banne and Salaam Memsaab, he played the lead role. In Gujarati films, he acted as the lead from 1972 to 1984 and performed character roles from 1985 to 2012. He directed six films between 1974 and 1997.