'Heroes are playing villains now'

Edit Deccan Herald 11 May 2016
Earlier the villain used to play a pivotal role in a film and efforts were made to establish his character. They would be given quirky dialogues like kitne aadmi the or Mogambo khush hua, and every time a distinct background score would introduce them on screen ... Heroes are playing villains now,” he adds ... Which is why we have so many popular dialogues by iconic villains like Amrish Puri,” he adds ... he adds ... ....

Hisss-story of Nagin dance via Buldhana

Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
NEW DELHI. It's the sort of dance that a certain kind of men put their best foot forward to after four pegs of alcohol ... But last week, the nagin dance rocked an entirely new stage when a desperate bunch of protesters raved to its rhythm at a PWD office in Buldhana. It was the viral video of the day ... Sridevi's venomous dance number (Main teri dushman) against the malevolent Amrish Puri is full of dirty glares and cobra strike poses ... ... 1990....

This role was difficult and disturbing: Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Edit DNA India 30 Apr 2016
-->. Nawazuddin Siddiqui talks about playing a serial killer in his next and the effect it had on him. After Manjhi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui is starring in another biopic Raman Raghav 2.0 that has him playing the notorious serial killer ... “It will be a hit,” he says matter-of-fact ... Then there’s Amrish Puri who had a substantial role in a huge film like Indian Jones, even Gulshan Grover has done Hollywood cinema ... ....

BFF Barun Sobti, Mohit Sehgal & Akshay Dogra's Dubsmash is Simply Awesome!

Edit Pinkvilla 15 Apr 2016
While Mohit is seen mimicking the lines of Amitabh, Akshay and Barun are seen mimicking the lines of Amrish Puri! Just look at their expressions! ... ....

SRK at Thukratwadi on Chala Hawa Yeu Dya

Edit The Times of India 07 Apr 2016
Keeping up with the recent trend of Bollywood stars gracing Marathi TV, none other than the King of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan graced the popular Marathi show 'Chala Hawa Yeu Dya' recently ... While Kushal Badrike played SRK, Sagar Karande turned into Kajol, Bharat Ganeshpure as Amrish Puri and Shreya Bugde as Farida Jalal ... WATCH ... WATCH ... ....

Gulshan Grover

Edit Indian Express 05 Apr 2016
Bollywood’s ‘bad man’ Gulshan Grover says a good-looking average actor can get away as a hero, but an anti-hero ought to be an excellent actor ... On being asked about his favourite villain, he said. “Look at the names of great villains in Hindi filmsPran saab, Amjad Khan saab, Amrish Puri… all of them ... Therefore, it is very unfair to say any name particularly. I have learnt from all of them.”....

WorldT20 through digital art

Edit Khaleej Times 26 Mar 2016
As Oman faced Ireland during the ongoing World T20, Malvika sat motionless in front of the television. She watched every detail as the bat flung in the air and ball flew across boundary. With Oman's victory, Malvika's excitement vented through her paint brush ... This wasn't the first time Malvika's love for sport articulated through her painting ... "I love sport ... Amrish Puri's grandson shared the artwork she had created as a tribute for him ... ....

A villain called time

Edit The Hindu 24 Mar 2016
One fine morning while going through the newspaper as usual, my eyes noticed an interview of yesteryear’s infamously famous villain Ranjeet. Intriguingly I went ahead and read the entire piece and found out that social lives of the Hindi film villains had been a disastrous one ... Going back to the good old days of Bollywood (especially Amrish Puri, Amjad Khan and Ajeet era), every typical Hindi masala film had a hero and a villain....

Digging through Bollywood's best collectibles

Edit Khaleej Times 16 Mar 2016
It's inescapable. The sway of Bollywood entertainment is everywhere, from its home city Mumbai to every big town to the rural hinterlands to overseas metros, where non-resident Indians are assailed by homesickness and that yearning for the movies on which they were weaned ... Eminent artist Atul Dodiya displayed his regard for Bollywood villains with a show of paintings vivifying Pran, Amjad Khan, Amrish Puri and more ... ....

Friday Flashback: When Amrish Puri Yelled at Aamir Khan!

Edit Pinkvilla 10 Mar 2016
Even his uncle Nasir Hussain, was highly impressed with Aamir and that’s when he offered him to assist him in his next mega star cast film, ‘Zabardast’ (1985) starring Sanjeev Kumar, Sunny Deol, Rajiv Kapoor, Jaya Pradha, Rati Agnihotri, Tanuja and Amrish Puri ... One of them was the veteran actor Amrish Puri, who did not know anything about Aamir and was totally involved in his work....

Arch villain of Hindi films Ranjeet says he’s still a shy man

Edit Indian Express 09 Mar 2016
After nearly five decades in Bollywood, actor-villain Ranjeet says that he was always a self-made man. His name figures among the best known bad guys of the Hindi film industry. His screen image is that of a ‘rapist’ and yet he says that he has “always been a shy person” ... I have lived life on my own terms ... Singh, Pran, Prem Chopra, Amjad Khan, Gulshan Grover, Amrish Puri and Shakti Kapoor are over ... ....

‘Little change in women’s Bhumika‘

Edit The Times of India 08 Mar 2016
Hyderabad. Eminent filmmaker Shyam Benegal on Tuesday pointed out that it is difficult to rid the Indian patriarchal society of its traditions with respect to gender equality and that one needs to constantly examine the issue in the country ... "We are saying that there is complementarity (between men and women) ... Bhumika was released in 1977 starring Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Amol Palekar and Amrish Puri. ....

‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ villain Ravi Khanna hopes to fill Amrish Puri’s space in Bollywood

Edit Indian Express 19 Feb 2016
With my voice and screen presence, I could be in roles like Amrish Puri did. Bollywood has not had many villains… There has been Ranjeet and Amrish Puri and Amjad Khan ... Pran, Madan Puri, Ranjeet or Prakash Raj — because all of them in most films, led a team of goons who used force against the hero to defeat him but never succeeded....
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