Biography
Om Prakash Puri OBE was an Indian actor whose career of more than four decades carried him from a railway town in East Punjab to two National Film Awards, a BAFTA nomination and the memorial tribute of the 89th Academy Awards. Working principally in Hindi cinema, he also performed in English, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu and Marathi, and he moved between the austere realism of India's parallel cinema and the broad pleasures of the commercial mainstream with a fluency that very few of his contemporaries could equal. He is widely regarded as one of the finest actors in world cinema.
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Awards & recognition
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2004
- Padma Shri in arts · 1990
- National Film Award — Best Actor · 1984
- National Film Award — Best Actor · 1982
Filmography50+ titles
Miss India: The Mystery
Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur
Krishna and Kamsa
Bhaji in Problem
Sam & Me
Load Wedding
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Gandhi
Ansh
The Hundred-Foot Journey
OMG: Oh My God!
New Delhi Times
Duniya
Aakrosh
Hey Ram
Sparsh
Actor in Law
Rang De Basanti
The Ghazi Attack
Don 2
Road to Sangam
Mukhbiir
Maqbool
Maati Maangey Khoon
Welcome
Don
Canterbury Tales
Lakshya
The Ghost and the Darkness
Ghayal
Maharathi
Pukar
Raat
Viceroy's House
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Yuva
The Zookeeper
City of Joy
Charlie Wilson's War
East Is East
Billu
Gupt: The Hidden Truth
Agneepath
Chup Chup Ke
Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai
Deewaanapan
Chakravyuh
Dhol
Dev
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