‘Naam to suna hi hoga,’ as Amrish Puri would say, and we can safely assume that Mogambo is overjoyed at this turn of events. Amrish, a seasoned actor who is also the country’s most beloved villain, is responsible for many of the most memorable films in the history of Indian cinema, including Mr. India, Karan Arjun, and DDLJ.
Everyone knows that Amrish Puri’s cinema career is most remembered for the villainous parts he played. Due largely to his commanding on-screen persona and distinctive baritone voice, he is regarded as one of cinema’s most iconic bad guys.
His role as the threatening “Mogambo” in Shekhar Kapur’s 1987 blockbuster Mr. India was his most well-known in the film business. The words “Mogambo khush hua” continue reverberating in our heads anytime he speaks. Excellent news for Mogambo lovers follows.
The Biopic
According to Women’s Era’s sources, a biography of the legendary actor Amrish Puri is in the works. With his outsized personality and illustrious career, Puri certainly deserves such a tribute.
According to someone with direct knowledge of Puris’s situation, “Vardhan Puri, Amrish Puri’s grandson, wants to film a movie on his legendary forefather’s life. The movie is about the life of the most hated man in the nation. Development has already started on this.”
Amrish Puri
Amrish Puri received exactly as much praise for his prior performances as Baldev Singh, Simran’s father in “Dilwale: Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,” as did Mogambo. In the 1995 movie Karan Arjun, he portrays the evil Durjan Singh. He received positive reviews from critics for his work in films like “Vijeta,” “Ghatak,” “Chori Chori Chupke Chupke,” “Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai,” and “Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate.”
Between 1967 and 2005, the actor Amrish Puri appeared in more than 450 movies. Amrish Puri died on January 12, 2005. For the unversed, on December 27, 2004, he was brought to the Hinduja hospital. He had brain surgery to treat Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a rare blood cancer.
Vardhan Puri
Vardhan Puri, the grandson of Amrish Puri, too has a successful acting career. His first film, ‘Yeh Saali Aashiqui’ (2019), was much praised. In addition, Vardhan Puri will appear in Nautanki, directed by Vivek Agnihotri, with seasoned performers like Anupam Kher, Satish Kaushik, and Pallavi Joshi. He has a psychological thriller with Endemol Shine and two films with Jio Studios (one directed by Kunal Kohli and the other by Sarim Momin). As if that weren’t enough to shine his name, he’s also filming a feature film for a major studio under the direction of the national award–winning filmmaker Shantanu Anant Tambe.
