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Govardhan Asrani (Hindi: गोवरधन असराणी, born 1 January 1941 in Jaipur, India), popularly known simply as Asrani, is an actor in Indian films whose Bollywood career has spanned over 35 years.
He was born in a middle class Sindhi family. His father migrated to Jaipur after the Partition of India and opened a shop selling carpets. He has four sisters and three brothers: two elder and one younger. Asrani was highly uninterested in business and very weak in mathematics.[citation needed] He completed his matriculation from St. Xaviers School and did his graduation from Rajasthan College, Jaipur. He simultaneously worked as a voice artist on All India Radio, Jaipur, to pay for his education. His ultimate aim was to become an actor.[citation needed]
He is married to actress Manju (Bansal) Asrani.
He began to learn acting from Sahitya Kalbhai Thakkar from 1960 to 1962. In 1962, he traveled to Bombay (now Mumbai) and began to seek opportunities to act. In 1963, Hrishikesh Mukherjee advised him to learn acting professionally.
Actors: Vikas Anand (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Asrani (actor), P. Jairaj (actor), Goga Kapoor (actor), Pinchoo Kapoor (actor), Pinchoo Kapoor (actor), Vinod Khanna (actor), Dev Kumar (actor), Shreeram Lagoo (actor), Mac Mohan (actor), Moolchand (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor), Randhir (actor), Mohan Sherry (actor),
Plot: Popular Indian leading man Amitabh Bachchan stars in HERA PHERI, a campy Bollywood musical melodrama about faded friendships and family secrets. Best friends Vijay (Bachchan) and Ajay (Vinod Khanna) sever their relationship when Vijay discovers that his father's murderer may be Ajay's own long-lost father, setting into motion a bloody saga of familial revenge that involves a maniacally insane mother, a bra-strap-obsessed serial rapist, and a motley assortment of badly disguised villains.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama,