Om Puri Phone Number, Contact Details, Mobile Number, Email Address

Career

Puri\’s first film was Chor Chor Chhup Ja, a children\’s film. During this time, to make ends meet, he also worked at the Actors\’ Studio, where future actors such as Gulshan Grover and Anil Kapoor would be his students.

Subsequently, Puri worked in numerous Indian films, as well as many films produced in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Puri made his debut in the mainstream film genre in the 1976 Marathi film Ghashiram Kotwal, based on a Marathi play of the same name by Vijay Tendulkar. It was directed by K. 

Hariharan and Mani Kaul in cooperation with 16 graduates of the FTII. He has claimed that he was paid \”peanuts\” for his best work. Along with Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, and Smita Patil, he was among the main actors who starred in what was then referred to as \”art films,\” such as Bhavni Bhavai (1980), Sadgati (1981), Ardh Satya (1982), Mirch Masala (1986), and Dharavi (1992).

He was critically acclaimed for his performances in many unconventional roles, such as a victimised tribal in Aakrosh (1980); Jimmyy\’s manager in Disco Dancer 1982); aa police inspector in Ardh Satya 1982), forr which he got the National Film Award for Best Actor; a humble husband in Seepeeyan

(1984;, Vinod\’s uncle inZamana;a the leader of a cell of Sikh militants in Maachis(1996); a tough cop again in the commercial film Gupt (1997); and; asthe courageous father of a martyred soldier in Dhoop (2003)7; and as the father of a martyred soldier in Dhoop 2004);.

In 1999, Puri acted in the Kannada film A.K. 47 as a strict police officer who tries to keep the city safe from the underworld—it became a huge commercial hit. Puri\’s acting in the film is memorable.

He rendered his own voice for the Kannada dialogues. In the same year, he starred in the successful British comedy-drama film East is East, where he played a first-generation Pakistani immigrant in Northern England, struggling to come to terms with his far more westernised children.

Puri had a cameo in the highly acclaimed 1982 film Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough). In the mid-1990s, he diversified to play character roles in mainstream Hindi cinema, where his roles are more tuned to mass audiences than film critics.

 He became known internationally by starring in many British films such as My Son the Fanatic (1997), East Is East(1999),) and The Parole Officer (2001). He appeared in Hollywood films including City of Joy 1992), oppositee PatrickSwayze; Wolflf (1994) with JacNicholson; andnd The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) opposite Val Kilmer. 

In 2007, he appeared as General Zia-ul-Haq in Charlie Wilson\’s War, which stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.

He has worked in Hindi television serials like Kakkaji Kaheen (1988) (roughly meaning \”Uncle Says\”) as a paan-chewing \”Kakkaji,\” which was a parody on politicians, and Mr. Yogi (1989) as a suave \”Sutradhaar\” who enjoys pulling the protagonist\’s leg.

 These two serials underline Om Puri\’s versatility as a comedian. He received critical acclaim for his performance in Govind Nihalani\’s 1988 television film Tamas, based on a Hindi novel of the same name.