Web Desk (January 06, 2018): First death anniversary of Om Puri, the acclaimed Indian actor who appeared in hit films including “Gandhi”, “City of Joy” and “East is East”, is being observed today (Friday).
Om Puri died on January 5, 2017, due to a massive heart attack.
Puri made his debut in the mid-1970s before going on to star in a number of major Hindi hits as well as, controversially, in some Pakistani movies.
Puri appeared in Pakistani film Actor In Law ast year. He had several times visited the country to attend the film and literary festivals.
He was known in India for his role in edgy arthouse movies such as Aakrosh (1980) and Ardh Satya (1982), for which he won the National Indian Film Award for Best Actor.
But he also acted in major Hollywood hits, featuring alongside the likes of Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks and Patrick Swayze.
“Though I did try to resist commercial films for quite some time, I succumbed to it finally as money was equally important as art,” Puri wrote in his autobiography.
“But as an artist I never compromised on what I had to do on-screen, even if the film was not up to the standard.”
Born in Ambala, Haryana, to a Punjabi family in 1950, he graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.
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