Google Doodle honours the iconic bollywood actor Amrish Puri’s 87th Birth Anniversary
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Google on Saturday celebrated the life and legacy of renowned Bollywood actor, villain, legendary Amrish Puri. Google is commemorating the actor and his contribution to Indian cinema on his 87th birth anniversary on Saturday.
The younger brother of character actors Madan Puri and Chaman Puri, Amrish Puri needs no introduction in the film industry as he is considered one of the best villains in the history of Bollywood, acted in more than 400 films between 1967 and 2005.
Amrish Lal Puri was born in Gotham to Lala Nihal Chand and Ved Kaur in Nawanshahr (Punjab) on 22 June 1932, Puri landed his first role at the age of 39 and went on to portray some of the most memorable villains in the history of Indian cinema.
He failed his first screen test, and instead found a job with the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation Ministry of Labour and Employment (ESIC). At the same time, he started performing at the Prithvi Theatre in plays written by Satyadev Dubey. He eventually became well known as a stage actor and won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1979.
Puri went on to work in Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Hollywood, Punjabi, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil films. Though he was successful in many regional films, he is best known for his work in Bollywood cinema. Puri has won three Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actor.
Amrish Puri was suffering from myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare kind of blood cancer, and had undergone some brain invasive surgery for his condition after he was admitted to the Hinduja hospital on 27 December 2004. His condition required frequent removal of the blood accumulated in the cerebral region of the brain and after some time he slipped into a coma shortly before his death around 7:30 a.m on 12 January 2005
