Amrish PuriFilmography

Mujhse Shaadi Karogi

Actors: Amrish Puri, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra

Synopsis: Two friends fight over a woman who isn't especially interested in either of them in this musical comedy from India. Samir (Salman Khan) is a good-looking lifeguard who could have his pick of any girl on the beach; however, he only has eyes for Rani (Priyanka Chopra), a beautiful woman who lives in Read More

Woh Tera Naam Tha

Aitraaz

Actors: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Annu Kapoor

Garv

Dev

Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Om Puri, Fardeen Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Amrish Puri

The Hero: Love Story of a Spy

Actors: Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, Priyanka Chopra, Kabir Bedi, Amrish Puri, Deep Dhillon

Out of Control

Actors: Ritesh Deshmukh, Brande Roderick

Shararat

Actors: Abhishek Bachchan, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Om Puri, Amrish Puri

Baba

Nayak: The Real Hero

Actors: Anil Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Amrish Puri

Chori Chori Chupke Chupke

Actors: Amrish Puri, Dalip Tahil, Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee

Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke

Badal

Actors: Ashutosh Rana, Bobby Deol, Rani Mukherjee, Amrish Puri

Thakshak

Actors: Ajay Devgan, Tabu, Rahul Bose, Amrish Puri

Aarzoo

Actors: Madhuri Dixit, Akshay Kumar, Amrish Puri

Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate

Actors: Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Reema Lagoo, Amrish Puri, Anupam Kher

Salaakhen

Actors: Amrish Puri, Sunny Deol, Anupam Kher, Raveena Tandon

Sardari Begum

Actors: Rajeshwari Sachdev, Kirron Kher, Smriti Mishra, Amrish Puri, Rajit Kapur

Synopsis: Set in the walled North Indian city of Delhi, this lavish melodrama of a popular thumari singer's life and accidental death is based on a true story. Her tragic tale is framed by that of newspaper reporter Tehzeeb Abbasi, who has come near the singer's home to investigate a terrible riot between Read More

Tarazu

Actors: Akshay Kumar, Sonali Bendre, Mohnish Bahl, Ranjeet, Amrish Puri

Itihaas: History of Love

Actors: Ajay Devgan, Twinkle Khanna, Amrish Puri, Raj Babbar, Shakti Kapoor, Sapna Bedi

Synopsis: When the fiancée of a wealthy and powerful man falls hopelessly in love with the son of one of her future husband's employees, the forbidden couple is forced to flee to Bombay in fear for their lives. Enraged that his beautiful bride-to-be Naina would fall for simple employee's son Karan, Thakur Read More

Koyla

Actors: Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Amrish Puri

Synopsis: In this thriller from India, Shankar (Shah Rukh Khan) is a mute servant of Rajasaab (Amrish Puri). Shankar is a loyal follower, however, he falls in love with his master's wife, Gauri (Madhuri Dixit). When Shankar and Gauri run off, Shankar is thrown from a cliff and left for dead, and Gauri is Read More

Jai Vikraanta

Actors: Sanjay Dutt, Dilorom Iskagova, Johnny Lever, Amrish Puri, Shahbaz Khan

Hulchul

Actors: Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Vinod Khanna, Kader Khan, Deven Verma, Amrish Puri

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Actors: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, Anupam Kher

Synopsis: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Brave Heart Will Take the Bride) was a huge hit in India, and won all the major Filmfare Awards. It was also the film that catapulted Shahrukh Khan to Bollywood superstardom, and it was the first of several successful pairings of Khan and Kajol. Khan plays Raj, a Read More

Times of Betrayal

Synopsis: The terrorism running rampant in modern India provides the basis of this powerfully provocative and violent Indian thriller. The story centers on Abhay Singh, an interrogations expert who works with the anti-terrorist squad, and his partner Abbvas Lodhi who are assigned to head a highly classified Read More

Kartavya

Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda

Actors: Amrish Puri, Neena Gupta, Rajit Kapur, Raghubir Yadav, Pallavi Joshi, Ila Arun, K.K. Raina

Synopsis: There is a thread of continuity among all the tragicomic tales told by Manouk (Amrish Puri) to his yuppie listeners, since most of them evoke the pangs of longing for the unattainable or sadness at having lost what is infinitely percious. Whether they are tales based on his own experiences, or Read More

Zindagi Ek Juaa

Jigarwala

Phool Aur Kaante

Actors: Ajay Devgan, Madhoo, Amrish Puri, Raza Murad, Aruna Irani, Jagdeep

Saudagar

Po Zakonu Dzhungley

Actors: Mithun Chakraborty, Irina Kushnareva, Makhmud Ismailov, Nasiruddin Shakh, Amrish Puri

Tridev

Na-Insaafi

Synopsis: Amrish Puri stars as a jailbreaking bandit in the Indian Na-Insaafi. Thirsting for revenge, the bandit murders the policeman who arrested him, then rapes the officer's wife. Not content with this, he severely injures the judge who presided over his trial. Years pass: Now a successful businessman Read More

Nafrat Ki Aandhi

Synopsis: Indian audiences apparently like their films long, and the 160-minute Nafrat ki Aandhi is no exception. Despite its length, the film's plot can be summarized rather quickly. Jeetendra plays a police inspector who befriends gambling house owner Dharmendra. The two pals join forces to get the goods Read More

Ilaaka

Synopsis: The East Indian Ilaaka stars Sanjay Dutt as a young bootlegger. Orphaned at an early age, the bootlegger was raised by a criminal, thus he knows no other life than crime. Even so, he's an affable sort, and as such becomes good friends with police inspector Mithun Chakraborty. Once the inspector Read More

Daata

Actors: Mithun Chakraborty, Padmini Kolhapure, Shammi Kapoor, Prem Chopra, Amrish Puri

Synopsis: Daata is a traditional revenge tale elevated by the novelty of its East-Indian cast and settings. Mithun Chakraborty plays a college student, dedicated to his studies and devoted to his father and sister. In Chakraborty's absence, slimy moneylender Prem Chopra victimizes the boy's family. Left Read More

Do Qaidi

Actors: Sanjay Dutt, Govinda

Synopsis: A short story by Pushpa S. Choudhary was the launching pad of the Indian Do Qaidi The "heroes," played by Sanjay Dutt and Govinda, are a pair of cheap crooks. As much as they hate the authorities, the two criminals hate each other more. They may be thieves, but they aren't murderers, and when they Read More

Ram Lakhan

Actors: Anil Kapoor

Synopsis: Director Subhash Ghai also dreamed up the story of the Indian Ram Lakhan. Raakhee plays a widowed mother who lives for revenge. She raises her sons Ram (Jacki Shroff) and Lakhan (Anil Kapoor) with hatred in their hearts. It is her wish that her sons avenge the murder of their father. To that end Read More

Commando

Actors: Mithun Chakraborty, Mandakini, Hemant Birje, Kim

Hum Farishte Nahin

Shahenshah

Dance Dance

Actors: Smita Patil, Mithun Chakraborty, Mandakini, Shakti Kapoor, Dalip Tahil, Amrish Puri

Mr. India

Nagina

Actors: Rishi Kapoor, Sridevi, Amrish Puri

Aghaat

Actors: Om Puri, Gopi, Pankaj Kapoor, Deepa Sahi

Synopsis: This is an intriguing political drama about competing unions and ideologies in one factory in India. Verma (Om Puri) is a Communist who leads one union and is willing to negotiate with the factory's management to attain the union's goals. His opponent leads the other union and resorts to violence Read More

Teri Meherbaniyan

Actors: Jackie Shroff, Poonam Dhillon, Amrish Puri, Sadashiv Amrapurkar

Party

Actors: Vijaya Mehta, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Rohini Hattangadi, Naseeruddin Shah, Deepa Sahi

Jhootha Sach

Actors: Dharmendra, Rekha, Amrish Puri, Asrani

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth

Synopsis: The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984). After a brief brouhaha involving a precious vial and a wild ride down a raging Himalyan river, Indy (Harrison Ford) gets down to the problem at hand Read More

Hero

Actors: Meenakshi Sheshadri, Jackie Shroff

Ardh Satya

Actors: Om Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Sadashiv Amrapurkar

Synopsis: A police drama is a rare film for 1980s Indian cinema, and a successful police drama with a bit of a moral is even rarer -- which makes this film by Govind Nihalani an unusual item. Anant Welankar (Om Puri) is an ethically strait-laced Bombay police officer who reluctantly joined the force at his Read More

Shakti

Gandhi

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the 188-minute, Oscar-winning Gandhi was one of the most exhaustively thorough biopics ever made. The film begins in Read More

Beshaque

Actors: Mithun Chakraborty, Yogita Bali, Amrish Puri, Sonia Sahni, Shakti Kapoor

Aakrosh

Actors: Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Avrind Deshpande

Synopsis: Released in India as Aakrosh, Cry of the Wounded is reportedly based on an actual government coverup. Idealistic attorney Naseeruddin Shah takes as his first client a man accused of murdering his wife. The accused is a political activist, and after a while it seems apparent that the prosecution is Read More

Anugraham

Actors: Anant Nag, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri

Synopsis: While attempting to calm his anger against his overbearing brother during a walk along the ocean, the hero of this story meets one of the many Indian gods. In their encounter, the god offers to give the man power in his community if he will live a celibate life. He also gives the man a special Read More

Bhumika

Actors: Smita Patil, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah

Synopsis: In this melodrama, the life of a beautiful Indian starlet is unfolded, beginning with her disastrous first movie audition when she attempts to sing for her listeners. Forced into show business by her family, who hoped to use her beauty to support themselves, little about her life, even its Read More

Manthan

Actors: Girish Karnad, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri

Synopsis: A great deal of government central planning still goes on in India, and it was a key feature of Indian life in the '60s and '70s. In this story, a young and high-principled engineer and a construction crew have been sent to a remote rural town to organize and build a milk co-op. The conservative Read More

Nishant

Actors: Girish Karnad, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Synopsis: In India in 1945, at the time of independence, there were many isolated semi-autonomous states, which had their own laws. In this movie, a man whose wife is abducted by the rulers of such a region seeks to have the men prosecuted for their crime, but no one will help him. Meanwhile, the wife Read More

Farz Ki Jung

Gehrayee

Aap Ke Sath

Badhaai Ho Badhaai

Trinetra

Benaam Badsha

Aaj Ke Sholey

Sawan Ko Aane Do

Doodh Ka Karz