Born Amrish Lal Puri
22 June 1932
Jalandhar, Punjab Province, British India
Died 12 January 2005 (aged 72)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Resting place Cremated
Occupation Film actor
Years active 1954–2005
Spouse(s) Urmila Diveker (1957–2005)
(her death)
Children Rajiv, Namrata
Amrish Puri (22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005) was a leading theatre and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theatre movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad. However, he is primarily remembered for essaying 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 Kapur's Hindi film Mr. India (1987), and to Western audiences he is best known as Mola Ram in Steven Spielberg's Hollywood film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
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