Veteran actor om puri passed away in mumbai, and was found dead in his house Friday morning. Legendary actor om puri was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Indian, British, Pakistani and Hollywood, independent films and art films. His credits also include appearances in American films. He was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India.Om Puri died after suffering a heart attack on the morning of 6 January 2017, he was 66.
Puri worked in numerous Indian films, as well as many films produced in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Filmmaker ashok pandit confirmed the news first on Twitter. Supposedly puri returned home from his last shoot, his doorbell went unanswered to which his driver raised an alarm. The allegorical actor has done great films in his career which still inspires thousands of actors.He made his film debut 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).
In 1999, Puri acted in a Kannada movie 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 movie is memorable. He rendered his own voice for the Kannada dialogues. In the same year, he starred in the successful British comedy film East is East, where he played a first-generation Pakistani immigrant in the north of England, struggling to come to terms with his far more westernised children.Puri had a cameo in the highly acclaimed film Gandhi (1982, directed by Richard Attenborough).
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), opposite Patrick Swayze; Wolf (1994) with Jack Nicholson; and 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.In 2014, he appeared opposite Helen Mirren in the comedy-drama The Hundred-Foot Journey. Om puri as an actor bought a lot a armour-propre to our nation.
A demise of such a such a great actor only brings anguish and dismals to people around the world.
