Om Puri

About Om Puri

Om Puri is an actor working in Hindi cinema and English cinema. Clapnumber holds 235 titles for Om Puri, from Ghashiram Kotwal in 1976 to Khela Hobe in 2023. By decade, that is 7 in the 1970s, 43 in the 1980s, 48 in the 1990s, 79 in the 2000s, 52 in the 2010s and 4 in the 2020s. Those titles are mostly drama, thriller and horror.

Biography

Om Prakash Puri (18 October 1950 – 6 January 2017) was an Indian actor who predominantly worked in Hindi films, he appeared in several English, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, and Marathi films. Puri was also active in independent and art films and also starred in several international cinema. He is widely regarded as one of the finest actors in world cinema. He won two National Film Awards for Best Actor, two Filmfare Awards and India's fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri in 1990. In 2004, he was made an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He is best known for his author-backed roles in films like Aakrosh (1980), Arohan (1982), Ardh Satya (1983), Disco Dancer (1982) television films like Sadgati (1981) and Tamas (1987), light-hearted roles in Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983), Chachi 420 (1997), Hera Pheri (2000), Chup Chup Ke (2006) and Dhol (2007) and several mainstream commercial films throughout his career. He had various collaborations with director Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani. Puri also appeared in non-Indian productions in the United States, Pakistan and Britain. In the 1990s, he appeared in My Son the Fanatic (1997) and the comedy drama East Is East (1999), receiving a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.