Amrish’s best phase as an actor came not as a villain but as a stern disciplinarian with principles that the new generation finds impossible to uphold. More than Shah Rukh Khan, Amrish was the pivotal character of Yash Chopra’s all-time blockbuster Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. Screen villainy got a new face in Shekhar Kapoor’s Mr India, and so did Amrish …
Amrish Puri was a one-man army, ploughing easily from Shyam Benegal’s classy and raw Nishant to the out-and-out potboilers that he did through the 1980s and ’90s. “Mogambo khush hua,” the booming menacing baritone in Shekhar Kapur’s Mr. India defines the career of the sinfully talented Amrish Puri. A true gentleman-actor.” One of three brothers, Amrish’s elder brothers Chaman and …
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