Amrish Puri

Amrish Lal Puri was an Indian actor, who was an important figure in Indian theatre and cinema. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad. He is remembered for playing iconic negative roles in Hindi cinema as well as other Indian and international film industries. To Indian audiences he is the most remembered for his role as Mogambo in Shekhar Kapurs Hindi film Mr. India , and to Western audiences he is best known as Mola Ram in Steven Spielbergs Hollywood film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom . Puri has won three Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Amrish Puri was born in Jalandhar in Punjab to a Punjabispeaking family of Lala Nihal Singh Puri and Mst Ved Kaur. He had four siblings, elder brothers Chaman Puri and Madan Puri , elder sister Chandrakanta, and a younger brother, Harish Puri. He later moved to Shimla and graduated from B.M. College, Himachal Pradesh.

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