Biography
"Mogambo Khush Hua" was his punchline in the adored flick ’ Mr. India ’. Amrish Puri was best known for his negative onscreen image in Bollywood and some Hollywood films. He was a leading theatre actor and played a prominent role in the Indian theatre movement in 1960’s. Puri worked along with the eminent theatre personas like Girish Karnad and Satyadev Dubey . He was born on 22 June, 1932 in Jalandhar, Punjab in then British India. The actor breathed his last on 12 January, 2005 in Mumbai. His family includes his actor brothers Madan Puri , Chaman Puri , younger brother Harish Puri and sister Chandrakanta. Urmila Divekar is the name of Amrish Puri ’s spouse and the couple has two children, Rajiv and Namrata. Puri later on moved to Shimla and did graduation from B.M. College.
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Known For
Selected work
Filmography
210 films · 1971–2006 · also credited as Playback Singer
Filmography reflects the current FridayRelease catalogue and may be incomplete.
Frequent Collaborators
Based on shared FridayRelease catalogue credits
Based on shared FridayRelease catalogue credits with Amrish Puri
Shakti Kapoor
Actor
Alka Yagnik
Playback Singer
Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Music Director
Udit Narayan
Playback Singer
Anupam Kher
Actor
Bappi Lahiri
Music Director
Kumar Sanu
Playback Singer
Aruna Irani
Actor
Mithun Chakraborty
Actor
Anu Malik
Music Director
Asha Bhosle
Playback Singer
Gulshan Grover
Actor
Companies in shared film creditsCredited alongside Amrish Puri in catalogue films
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