MUMBAI – Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the life and legacy of legendary Bollywood actor Amrish Puri on his 87th birthday.
Born in Punjab on this day in 1932, Amrish Puri landed his first role at age 39 and went on to portray some of the most memorable villains in the history of Indian cinema.
Even though he has worked in more than 400 films in over half a dozen languages including Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and English – most of us remember him for his iconic role as ‘Mogambo’ in the 1987 movie Mr India, and his signature line from the movie — Mogambo khush hua (Mogambo is pleased).
“If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again and you might end up like Indian film actor Amrish Puri, who overcame an early setback on the way to fulfilling his big screen dreams,” said Google in a post.
Here is the doodle:
After working in the theatre and doing voiceover parts, Amrish Puri made his Bollywood debut in 1971’s Reshma Aur Shera. A decade later, he broke into Hollywood as Khan, a supporting role in the Oscar-winning movie, Gandhi.
Some of his other memorable roles are Chaudhry Baldev Singh in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Thakur Durjan Singh in Karan Arjun, Mayor Ashraf Ali in Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan in Nayak: The Real Hero.
He passed away on January 12, 2005, after battling a rare kind of blood cancer.
