Om Puri

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Om Prakash Puri OBE (born 18 October 1950 in Ambala, died 6 January 2017 in Mumbai) was an Indian actor whose career of more than four decades carried him from a railway town in East Punjab to two National Film Awards, a BAFTA nomination and the memorial tribute of the 89th Academy Awards. Working principally in Hindi cinema, he also performed in English, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu and Marathi, and he moved between the austere realism of India's parallel cinema and the broad pleasures of the commercial mainstream with a fluency that very few of his contemporaries could equal. He is widely regarded as one of the finest actors in world cinema. Puri did not possess the conventional glamour that Hindi cinema of the 1970s expected of its leading men, and critics have long observed that this apparent disadvantage became the foundation of his authority. His was the face of the labourer, the clerk and the exhausted policeman, and he rendered those lives with a...

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