Amrish Puri

Amrish Puri

Acting
June 22, 1932January 12, 2005 (age 72)
Jalandhar, Punjab, India

Also Known As

Amrish Lal Singh Puri, Amrish Lal Puri, Amrish Singh Puri, Mogambo, Mola Ram

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amrish Lal Puri (June 22, 1932 - January 12, 2005) was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad. However, he is primarily remembered for essaying some iconic negative roles in Hindi cinema. He is most remembered for his role as Mogambo in the Hindi film Mr India (1987). As Mola Ram in the Hollywood film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), he crossed over to international cinema as well. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amrish Puri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

(240 total)
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

19958.5

as Chaudhry Baldev Singh

Mohabbatein

Mohabbatein

20007.1

as Major General Khanna

Mujhse Shaadi Karogi

Mujhse Shaadi Karogi

20046.5

as Colonel Dugraj Singh

Lakshya

Lakshya

20046.7

as Brig. Gautam Puri

Karan Arjun

Karan Arjun

19956.7

as Thakur Durjan Singh

Baadshah

Baadshah

19996.5

as Suraj Singh Thapar

Nayak: The Real Hero

Nayak: The Real Hero

20017.1

as CM Balraj Chauhan

Pardes

Pardes

19976.7

as Kishorilal

Chori Chori Chupke Chupke

Chori Chori Chupke Chupke

20016.0

as Kailashnath Malhotra

Chachi 420

Chachi 420

19976.9

as Durgaprasad Bhardwaj

Hulchul

Hulchul

20046.7

as Angar Chand

Koyla

Koyla

19976.6

as Raja Saab

Aitraaz

Aitraaz

20046.0

as Ranjit Roy

Thalapathi

Thalapathi

19918.0

as Kalivardhan

Taal

Taal

19996.6

as Jagmohan Mehta

TV Shows

(3 total)
Tamas

Tamas

198810.0

as Sardar Teja Singh