Amrish Puri Awards

Wins
1968: Maharashtra State Drama Competition
1979: Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Theatre
1986: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, Meri Jung
1991: Maharashtra State Gaurav Puraskar
1994: Sydney Film Festival, Best Actor Award – Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda
1994: Singapore International Film Festival, Best Actor Award – Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda
1997: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award – Ghatak
1997: Star Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor – Ghatak
1998: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award- Virasat
1998: Star Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor – Virasat

Nominations
1990: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award – Tridev
1993: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award – Muskurahat
1994: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award – Gardish
1996: Filmfare Best Villain Award – Karan Arjun
1996: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award – Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
1999: Filmfare Best Villain Award – Koyla
2000: Filmfare Best Villain Award – Baadshah
2002: Filmfare Best Villain Award – Gadar: Ek Prem Katha

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Amrish Puri about

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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