Amrish Puri

Amrish Puri (Hindi: अमरीश पुरी, aMRIs Puri; born June 22, 1932 in Naushera, Panjab; † January 12, 2005 in Mumbai, Maharashtra ) was an Indian film actor.

Life

Amrish Puri went to the BM College in Shimla and moved in the 1950s to Mumbai, where his elder brother Madan Puri was already working as an actor. He made 1954 test shots in the film, but did not obtain employment. Amrish Puri instead began to play theater and took on roles in, among other pieces of Satyadev Dubey. He soon played regularly at Mumbai's Prithvi Theatre. His deep sonorous bass voice was public appeal and Puri took on sale as speaker of radio advertising.

His film debut was Amrish Puri 1970; he was, he was almost 40 with a known rogue Sunil Dutt's Reshma Aur role in Shera (1971). The mid- 1970s to the 1980s, when the artistically ambitious Indian parallel cinema had its climax, Amrish Puri appeared in numerous supporting roles as a negative character. His most important films of this period are directing of Shyam Benegal - including Nishant, Manthan, Bhumika, Kalyug and Mandi - in which he played at the side of Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. Widely attention has also Ardh ​​Satya (1983 ) by Govind Nihalani, in which he portrayed the opponent one played by Om Puri rebellious police.

In 1984 it was from a Hollywood studio offered a supporting role in a Steven Spielberg movie: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, a prequel of Spielberg's hit movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Puri played in it as adversaries of embodied by Harrison Ford hero Indiana Jones the Kali - worshiping, tantric temple priest Mola Ram. Since the film represents Indian culture as part of " evil ", witnessed this film no theatrical release in India. Amrish Puri refused further role offers because they wanted to set him in his person as an Indian in a negative role stereotype.

The role that shaped Amrish Puris career lasting, he played in 1987 - the villain Mogambo in Shekhar Kapur's children's film Mr. India. His rumbling laughter and coming from the depths of his throat, " Mogambo khush hua " ( Mogambo That makes happy. ) Made him legendary as bloodthirsty villains as it previously was only Amjad Khan as Gabbar Singh in Sholay (1975).

Thereafter, the role offers accumulated as a villain for Amrish Puri. In 1995 he played this role, however, contrary to stereotype an authoritarian father in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. The film, starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol in the lead roles was the biggest box-office success of the 1990s in India. Consequently, Amrish Puri has since been occupied in father roles, such as father Anil Kapoor in Virasat, a taboo in Chachi 420 and Mujhse Shaadi Karogi in Priyanka Chopra. His last film was Kisna by Subhash Ghai. After more than 250 film appearances, he died at the age of 72 of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Amrish Puri won three Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actor: for Meri Jung ( 1985), Ghatak (1996) and Virasat (1997).

Filmography (selection)

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