Amrish Puri[1] (22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005[2]) was an Indian actor, who was an important figure in Indian theatre and cinema. He is remembered for playing iconic villainous roles in Hindi cinema as well as other Indian and international film industries. He remembered for playing various roles in variety of film genres, specially iconic villainous roles in Hindi Cinema, as well as International Cinema. His role as Mogambo in Shekhar Kapur's Hindi film Mr. India (1987) is considered as one of greatest villains in Indian Cinema and to foreign audiences he is best known as Mola Ram in Steven Spielberg's Hollywood film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
While he predominantly worked in Hindi-language films, he had also appeared in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Marathi language films. Puri won three Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actor.
^"Mogambo Amrish Puri lives on: A tribute". Hindustan Times. 11 January 2010. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
^"Amrish Puri is Dead". 12 January 2005. Archived from the original on 9 July 2013.
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and Mammootty with Arvind Swamy in his feature-film debut, Jaishankar, AmrishPuri, Srividya, Bhanupriya, and Geetha in supporting roles. It is about a...
Indian cinema to life. His contemporaries include veteran actors like AmrishPuri, Amjad Khan, Pran and Prem Chopra. Some of his popularity in the present...
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action drama Ghayal (1990), starring Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri and AmrishPuri. The film emerged as a major critical and commercial success, making...
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