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In Amrish Puri's 30-year career as an actor, he did over 200 movies. He was Bollywood's most sort-after dependable character actor. His powerful voice and screen presence accentuated the cinematic definitions of evil.
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Amrish Puri was born in a Punjabi Hindu family in Nawanshahr, Punjab, to Lala Nihal Chand and Ved Kaur on June 22, 1932. He had four siblings, elder brothers Chaman Puri and Madan Puri, elder sister Chandrakanta, and a younger brother, Harish Puri. He was the first cousin of the actor and singer K. L. Saigal.
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Puri graduated from the BM College in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The actor was a leader of the RSS youth wing back then. When he moved to Mumbai, Puri found a job with the 'Employees' State Insurance Corporation Ministry of Labour and Employment' (ESIC) in the '50s. There he met his future Urmila, a Konkani. The couple got married.
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Around the same time, he started performing in plays written by Satyadev Dubey at the Prithvi Theatre. Puri eventually became well known as a stage actor and won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1979.
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Puri started performing in plays written by Satyadev Dubey at the Prithvi Theatre. He became well known as a stage actor and won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1979.
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