Amrish
Puri
Amrish Puri 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 and to Western audiences he is best known as Mola Ram in Steven Spielberg's Hollywood film
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
His siblings include elder brothers Chaman Puri, Madan Puri (both actors)
and elder sister Chandrakanta and younger brother Harish Puri. He went on to
work in Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Hollywood, Punjabi, Malayalam, Telugu and
Tamil films. Though he was successful in all of these industries, he is best
known for his work in Bollywood cinema. He has appeared in over four hundred
films. His dominating screen presence and baritone voice made him stand out
amongst the other villains of the
day.
Amjad
Khan
Amjad Khan was the son of legendary
actor Jayant. He was the brother of
fellow actor Imtiaz Khan and Inayat Khan
who acted in one film. Khan was educated at St Theresa's High School, in
Bandra, Mumbai. He attended R D National College, and was the general secretary
– the highest elected student body representative. He worked in over 130 films
in a career spanning nearly twenty years. He enjoyed popularity for his
villainous roles in Hindi films, the most famous being the iconic Gabbar Singh in the 1975 classic Sholay
and of Dilawar in Muqaddar Ka
Sikandar.
Pran
Krishan Sikand
Pran Krishan Sikand better known as Pran, was a multiple Filmfare award-winning Indian actor,
known as a movie villain and character actor in Hindi cinema from the 1940s to
the 1990s. He acted as a villain from 1942–1991 and played supporting and character roles from 1948–2007. In a
long and prolific career he appeared in over 350 films. Pran has received
numerous awards and honours in his career. He won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor
Award in 1967, 1969 and 1972 and was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement
Award in 1997. He was awarded as the 'Villain
of the Millennium' by Stardust in 2000. The Government of India honoured
him with the Padma Bhushan in 2001
and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in
2013 for his contributions towards Indian cinema. In 2010, he was named on the
list of CNN's Top 25 Asian actors of all time.
There are a few others who made their
presence felt with negative roles such as Gulshan
Grover, Ranjit etc. While we
think about woman in negative roles then instantly the name of Lalita Pawar
keep crawling into our mind.
Lalita
Pawar
Lalita Pawar was born on 18 April
1916. she started her acting career at age nine in the film, Raja Harishchandra (1928), and later
went on to play lead roles in silent era and 1940's films, in a career that
lasted until the end of her life, spanning seven decades. She was known
particularly for playing maternal figures, especially wicked matriarchs or
mothers-in-law. She also notably played the role of the strict but kind Mrs. L. D'Sa in Anari (1959) with Raj
Kapoor, under Hrishikesh Mukherjee's direction, she gave the performance of a
lifetime for which she received Filmfare
Best Supporting Actress Award and the devious hunchback Manthara in Ramanand Sagar's television
series Ramayan. She was honoured by
the Government of India as the first lady of Indian cinema, in 1961. She died
unnoticed on 24 February 1998 in Aundh, Pune.
Apart from Lalita Pawar, there was a
few like, Nadira, Shashikala and Bindu, but now there is not a single actress who can fill the slot
like these actress have done.
!!!There is nothing either good or bad, but
thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare!!!
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