Songs of Amrish Puri
Amrish Lal Puri was born in a Punjabi family on june 22, 1932 in Nawanshahr,Punjab. His Father was Lala Nihal Chand and his Mother was Ved Kaur. He had two elder brothers- Chaman Puri & Madan Puri and one younger brother- Harish Puri and a younger sister- Chandrakanta. He was an iconic Indian actor who appeared primarily in negative roles in Hindi movies. He graduated from B.M. College in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. His brothers Chaman Puri & Madan Puri were also actors. He played character roles and was well-known as a bollywood villain. He married Urmila Divekar on 5 January 1957, at the Shri Krishna Temple in Wadala. The couple has two children, son Rajeev Puri and daughter Namrata Puri. His son Rajeev is a businessman. He has four grandchildren, Sachi, Harsh Vardhan, Shantanu Bagwe and Krish Bagwe. His daughter-in-law, Meena, is a professional physiotherapist.
He started performing at the Prithvi Theatre, in plays written by Satyadev Dubey, eventually became well-known stage actor and won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1979. After this he went on to work in Hindi, Kannada, Hollywood, Punjabi, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil films. Though he was successful in all of these industries, he is best known for his work in Bollywood cinema. He appeared in over four hundred movies. His dominating screen presence and booming voice made him stand out amongst a sea of actors. His striking bass voice, the ability to extend his eyes widely out of their eyelids during climactic scenes and outsize acting style made him a convincing villain in even the most melodramatic movies. In 1970 he appeared in his first film - Prem Pujari although the first film he had signed for was Reshma Aur Sheraaa which released in 1971.
He became a staple of Hindi films in the 1980s playing mostly villainous roles. He also went on to play many positive supporting roles, including his famous role as Baldev Singh in the Indian blockbuster Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in 1995. He done a lot of movie in hindi, international, malayalam, punjabi, telugu, tamil and kannada cinema. He starred as the sadistic jailor in Kalapani in which co-acted Padmashri Mohanlal, the Megastar of Mollywood industry. He is best known in Punjabi cinema for his role as the landlord villain Joginder Singh in the legendary film Chan Pardesi. He also appeared in Telugu movies such as Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari. He acted in some Kannada movies during the early days of his career. He played the hero in a black & white Kannada movie Kaadu. He received a lot of awards and acted in more than 400 movies.He died in Mumbai in 2005 after a Brain Hemorrhage at the age of 72.His last film was Kachchi Sadak. The film was released a few days after his death. His most remembered roles are Mogambo in Mr India in 1987 and Mola Ram in the Hollywood film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984 and in Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi in 1982.
Some hit songs of his movies are:-
1. Bijli Girane Main Hu - Mr. India
2. In Mast Nigahon Se - The Hero
3. Shom Shom Shom – Tahalka
4. Bada Dukh Dina - Ram Lakhan
5. Bhangdaa Paale - Karan Arjun
6. Mujhko Ranaji Maaf Karna - Karan Arjun
7. Shiv Shankar - Surya
8. Hosh Na Kho De Kahin - Koyla
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