Om PuriFilmography

Delhi-6

Actors: Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Om Puri, Rishi Kapoor

Synopsis: A quick trip from the USA to India turns into a life-altering journey of self-discovery for a man traveling with his ailing grandmother. Upon arriving in Delhi with his grandmother, Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) begins to experience an inner transformation that he never anticipated. The ancient Read More

Billu Barber

Actors: Irfan Khan, Lara Dutta, Rajpal Yadav, Om Puri, Manoj Joshi

Synopsis: A simple man with a loving family finds his life changing in ways he never anticipated when a superstar strolls into his life, transforming everything around him. Billu Barber lives in a small village with his wife, Bindiya, and their two wonderful children. Though their lives are less than Read More

Wanted

Actors: Salman Khan

Shoot on Sight

Actors: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Brian Cox, Om Puri, Sadie Frost

Synopsis: A man is torn between his faith, his family, and his profession in this taut thriller. Tariq Ali (Naseeruddin Shah) was born in Pakistan and raised in a Muslim household by parents who later emigrated to London, but he's been willing to set a certain amount of his cultural identity aside in order Read More

Singh is Kinng

Actors: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Om Puri, Sonu Sood, Javed Jafferi

Synopsis: A Punjabi do-gooder sets out on a quest to track down the king of the Australian underworld, only to find that a positive attitude and a sense of basic human dignity will get him further in life than he ever could have imagined. Everyone in Happy Singh's small village is sick and tired of the Read More

Charlie Wilson's War

Actors: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: Produced by Tom Hanks, written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, this adaptation of George Crile III's incendiary bestseller tells the remarkable story of the Texas congressman whose efforts to prevent the Red Army from overtaking Afghanistan eventually led to the collapse of the Read More

Buddha Mar Gaya

Actors: Om Puri, Anupam Kher, Paresh Rawal, Mukesh Tiwari, Ranvir Shorey

Synopsis: Director Rahul Rawail teams with screenwriter Anand Sivakumaran for this cutting black comedy about greed, corpses, cold hard cash, and funerals. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fool N Final

Actors: Sunny Deol, Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Paresh Rawal, Johnny Lever

Delhi Heights

Actors: Om Puri, Neha Dhupia, Jimmy Shergill, Rohit Roy

Panga Naa Lo

Actors: Om Puri, Satish Shah, Viju Khote

Chup Chup Ke

Actors: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri

Don

Actors: Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Rampal, Isha Koppikar, Boman Irani

Synopsis: An Indian narcotics officer concocts an ingenious plan to capture a notorious drug lord, only to discover too little too late just how wrong even the most well-executed plan can go in this Bollywood action thriller from director Farhan Akhtar. As drug trafficking between Asia and Europe rockets to Read More

Malamaal Weekly

Deewane Huye Pagal

Actors: Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Shahid Kapoor, Om Puri, Rimi Sen, Paresh Rawal

Synopsis: A woman in jeopardy has to deal with a growing number of men who've fallen in love with her, as well as a pair of thugs who want her dead, in this Bollywood musical comedy. Tanya (Rimi Sen) is a beautiful young woman who is in love with Karan (Shahid Kapoor), a sweet and handsome boy who happens Read More

Rang De Basanti

Actors: Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Kunal Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, Alice Patten

Kyon Ki

Mumbai Xpress

Baabul

Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee, John Abraham

Synopsis: A woman is uncertain of what path to take when she loses the love of her life in this romantic drama from India. Avi (Salman Khan) is a bright and ambitious young man who, after completing his education in the United States, comes home to take his place in the successful business run by his Read More

Code 46

Actors: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Jeanne Balibar, Om Puri, Essie Davis

Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, a married man investigates a counterfeiter and ends up the perpetrator of an ethical crime in Code 46, the latest film from prolific British director Michael Winterbottom. Set against the backdrop of a technologically advanced Shanghai, where people are only allowed Read More

Yuva

Actors: Ajay Devgan, Rani Mukherjee, Abhishek Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi, Kareena Kapoor

Synopsis: Directed by Mani Ratnam, Yuva follows three very different youngsters: idealistic student and aspiring politician Michael (Ajay Devgan); Arjun (Vivek Oberoi), who dreams of immigrating to the United States; and Lallan (Abhishek Bachchan) from the wrong side of the tracks. The three cross paths Read More

Dev

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

Lakshya

Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Om Puri, Sharad S. Kapoor

Kyon! Ho Gaya Na ...

Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Vivek Oberoi, Om Puri, Rati Agnihotri

AK-47

Actors: Om Puri, Audhitya Singh, Sheetal Bhavishi

Second Generation

Actors: Om Puri, Anupam Kher, Danny Dyer, Parminder Nagra, Christopher Simpson

Synopsis: Second Generation stars Parminder Nagra as the free-thinking daughter in a traditional Indian family who has torn herself away from the restrictive traditions of her parents. A family emergency brings her back into the fold, where the entire family must contend with how their world sometimes is at Read More

The Mystic Masseur

Actors: Om Puri, James Fox, Aasif Mandvi, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ayesha Dharker

Synopsis: Ismail Merchant, best known as the producing half of the successful Merchant-Ivory team, once again steps behind the camera as director for this story of life among Indian expatriates in the 1950s. Ganesh (Aasif Mandvi) is a young man who was born to a community of Indian exiles living in Read More

Guru Mahaguru

Actors: Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Ashutosh Rana, Mukul Dev, Priyanka

White Teeth

Actors: Om Puri, Philip Davis, Naomie Harris

Synopsis: Originally telecast in the United Kingdom, the two-part miniseries White Teeth was based on Zadie Smith's 2000 bestseller about the perils of cultural assimilation in modern day North London. Taking place in the years 1974 to 1992 and set in the melting-pot community of Willesden Green, the story Read More

Chor Machaaye Shor

Actors: Bobby Deol, Shilpa Shetty, Bipasha Basu, Om Puri, Shekhar Suman, Paresh Rawal

Shararat

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

The Parole Officer

Actors: Steve Coogan, Lena Headey, Stephen Dillane, Om Puri, Steven Waddington

Synopsis: British television comic Steve Coogan made his first bid for a big-screen career in this comedy, in which he plays Simon Garden, a singularly inept parole officer who has not had terribly good luck with his clients -- after many years on the job, only three of the former prisoners he's been Read More

My Little Devil

Actors: Om Puri

Synopsis: In this bittersweet family drama, Joseph (Rushabh Patni) is a young boy from a poor family growing up in Diu, an island nation off the coast of India. Joseph's family arranges for the boy to receive a scholarship at a private Catholic boarding school, but Joseph has a hard time adjusting to his Read More

The Zookeeper

Actors: Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen, Om Puri, Javor Loznica

Synopsis: A man who has devoted his life to animals rather than dealing with the emotional and political uncertainties of humans finds he's challenged when his zoo becomes a battlefield in this downbeat drama. Ludovic (Sam Neill) lives and works in an unnamed city in the Balkans; once an idealistic Read More

Ansh

Actors: Abbas, Sharbani Mukherjee, Om Puri, Sayaji Shinde, Ashutosh Rana, Israt Ali

Happy Now

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Susan Lynch, Om Puri, Emmy Rossum, Paddy Considine

Synopsis: New wrinkles are added to an old crime when a spitting image of the victim shows up in this dark comedy. Pen-y-wig is a small town along the southern coast of Wales where, in 1988, Jenny Thomas (Emmy Rossum) won first prize in a local beauty contest. On her way home, Jenny began having car Read More

East Is East

Actors: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa

Synopsis: East is East, a fast-moving comedy drama of mixed-race manners, is set in Salford, England in 1970. It centers on the Anglo-Pakistani alliance of the Khan family that is both claustrophobically cohesive and hopelessly dysfunctional. In their over-crowded terrace house, anarchy erupts daily with Read More

East-West

Actors: Linda Bassett, Om Puri, Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov, Catherine Deneuve, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Ruben Tapiero

Synopsis: French director Regis Wargnier's fifth feature film is a romantic period drama which is also a tribute to the victims of a tragic Stalinist episode. In June 1946, Stalin launched a major propaganda campaign aimed at Russians who had settled in the West, offering them amnesty and an opportunity to Read More

Such a Long Journey

Actors: Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Ranjit Chowdhry

Synopsis: Based on Robinton Mistry's biting epic novel of the same name, this drama recounts the spiritual and physical consequences that result when a decent man allows himself to be convinced to perform an illegal act in the name of patriotism. The story takes place in India, 1971, a time when the country Read More

Hera Pheri

Actors: Akshay Kumar, Tabu, Sunil Shetty, Gulshan Grover, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Kulbhushand Kharbanada

Bollywood Calling

My Son the Fanatic

Actors: Om Puri, Gopi Desai, Rachel Griffiths, Akbar Kurtha

Synopsis: In a small city in the English midlands, a Pakistani immigrant named Parvez (Om Puri) works long hours driving a cab to provide modest comfort for his disapproving wife, Minoo (Gopi Desai), and better opportunities for his collegiate son, Farid (Akbar Kurtha). When Farid breaks off his engagement Read More

Vinashak

Actors: Sunil Shetty, Raveena Tandon, Danny Danzongpa, Alok Nath, Tinnu Anand

Zindagi Zindabad

Actors: Om Puri, Mita Vashisht, Milind Gunaji, Uttara Baokar, Abhiram Bhadkamkar

Synopsis: Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankjar, who previously collaborated on Two Women (1996), directed this drama about AIDS in India where the number of HIV-infected is almost two million. The story interweaves plotlines featuring a slum dweller with AIDS, a Naval officer who has a car accident and gets Read More

Gupt

Actors: Manisha Koirala, Om Puri

Synopsis: Bollywood heartthrob Bobby Deol stars in this musical drama as an innocent man charged with killing his father. Though he did not commit the crime, circumstantial evidence suggests he may have been involved, and the young man is found guilty. Unable to deal with the constraints of prison life, he Read More

Maachis

Synopsis: A film that will be most meaningful to those familiar with the complexities of East Indian politics, this drama offers a chilling portrait of a terrorist. Pali joins a guerrilla group after his best friend Jassi, who lives peacefully on a lonely farm with his sister Viran (Pali's fiancee), is Read More

Mrityu Dand

Actors: Shabana Azmi, Madhuri Dixit, Om Puri, Ayub Khan, Shilpa Shirodkar

Synopsis: In the north Indian state of Bihar, Ketki (Madhuri Dixit) marries weak Vinay (Ayub Khan), who is exploited by hard-nosed businessman Tirpat (Mohan Joshi). Ketki then organizes local women against Tirpat & Co. Her group includes her sister-in-law Chandravati (Shabana Azmi), who had a run-in with Read More

PremGranth

Actors: Madhuri Dixit

The Ghost and the Darkness

Actors: Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, Om Puri, John Kani, Bernard Hill

Synopsis: A man bringing modern transportation to the ancient jungles of Africa discovers one of man's oldest enemies lays in wait for him in this period adventure drama. John Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson) is the owner of a British railroad firm who is building a rail line through Uganda. A bridge is needed so 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

Brothers in Trouble

Synopsis: In the mid 1960s, scores of refugees from India illegally came to England looking for a better life and found themselves living the very lives they sought to escape. This British drama, chronicles the daily existence of one household of these illegal refugees. The tale centers on Amir who journeys Read More

Target

Synopsis: The unjust discrimination that comes with the caste system in rural India provides the basis of this socially conscious drama that centers on the relationship between a cruel, exploitative landowner and his workers who belong to a caste of pariahs. Singh is the lord of his estate. His favorite Read More

In Custody

Actors: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Sushma Seth, Neena Gupta

Synopsis: Anita Desai and Shahrukh Husain adapted Desai's novel for this comedy-drama about an Indian university teacher who encounters numerous hassles in his attempts to document the final writings of an ailing, alcoholic poet whom he idolizes. Score by Zakir Hussain and Ustad Sultan Khan. ~ Nicole Gagne Read More

Wolf

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson becomes a werewolf in this bizarre comedy-horror film directed by Mike Nichols. Nicholson plays Will Randall, a book editor with a testosterone deficit who has just been sacked at his publishing firm by a new boss, Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer). A colleague, Stewart Swinton (James Spader Read More

The Kite

Actors: Shabana Azmi, Sayed Shafique, Om Puri, Robi Ghost, Mohan Agashe

Synopsis: This Indian drama provides a sympathetic view of the daily existence of some of India's poorest people. The film is set within a small, illegal shanty town surrounding a railroad station. The people, who live without water and electricity, eke out their living by stealing food from the passing Read More

The Burning Season

Actors: Ayub Khan Din, Om Puri

Synopsis: Akesh Gill stars in this emotional drama about Sanda, a Canadian woman of Indian descent who falls in love with Patwant (Ayub Khan-Din), a well-heeled college student from India. When Patwant is forced to return home, Sanda throws caution to the wind and leaves her husband behind to follow him Read More

City of Joy

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Art Malik

Synopsis: In this drama, a wealthy American doctor learns some important lessons about life in one of the poorest cities on Earth. Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze) is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively Read More

Dharavi

Actors: Om Puri, Shabana Azmi

Synopsis: Rajkaran is an ambitious man with no way of accomplishing his goals. He is in debt to moneylenders in a big way, and his dream of owning his own cab (he's a cabdriver) is as far away as it ever was, despite his penchant for pinching pennies. He lives with a woman who is as ambitious as he is, a Read More

Disha

Actors: Shabana Azmi, Nana Patekar, Raghubir Yadav, Om Puri, Nilu Phule

Synopsis: The lure of the big city is something that country dwellers around the world experience. In every case, the particulars are different. In this drama, two best friends leave their Indian village and travel to Bombay to try and get work. Though the filmmaker doesn't say this, they are lucky. They Read More

Hum Farishte Nahin

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Actors: Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Om Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Manohari Singh

Synopsis: This hard-hitting political drama was hit equally hard by Indian distributors and television, who declined to run the film. The controversial storyline features a newspaper editor who uncovers corruption, murder, and bribery in high office. When a politician is killed, an journalist discovers that Read More

Essence

Actors: Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Neena Gupta, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Mohan Agashe

Synopsis: Ramulu (Om Puri) is a master weaver whose excellence is noticed by a female government official, and his work is selected to represent his country in an exhibition in Paris. Unfortunately, the selection brings about worker discord and jealousy. Ramulu alienates his daughter by using the fine silk Read More

Genesis

Actors: Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, M.K. Raina

Synopsis: This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters: a farmer (Naseeruddin Shah), a weaver (Om Puri), a trader (M.K. Raina), and a woman (Shabana Azmi). At the beginning of the story, the workers in a decaying village are Read More

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

Debshishu

Actors: Smita Patil, Sadhu Meher, Rohini Hattangady, Om Puri

Synopsis: In a conventional Indian melodrama that underscores political ills such as corruption and social problems such as runaway popular beliefs, director Uptlendu Chakraborty wraps a larger picture around the long-suffering parents of a supposed "child-god." A woman named Sita gives birth to a Read More

Mirch Masala

Actors: Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Suresh Oberoi, Deepti Naval, Om Puri

Synopsis: A landmark work of Indian feminism, Spices was made by famed filmmaker Ketan Mehta, featuring Smita Patel in the leading role. Patel, possibly the greatest actress of her generation, plays a woman who faces the oppressive realities of life as a woman in India. Spurning the advance of a corrupt tax Read More

Tarang

Actors: Smita Patil, Om Puri, Girish Karnad

Synopsis: This routine drama of romance and intrigue, with only two songs (unusual for any Indian commercial film!), focuses on Rahul (Amol Palekar), a sleazy, self-promoting industrialist, his affair with his son's nurse, and the workers that the nurse champions. Rahul intends to take over the company when Read More

Paar

Actors: Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri

Synopsis: When an Untouchable wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a Read More

Holi

Synopsis: This film by Indian director Ketan Mehta, whose socially conscious work has been compared to Spike Lee, centers around Holi, the Festival of Fire in India. A group of college boys are dissatisfied with their school's policies, including the announcement that they won't be getting the day off from Read More

Party

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

Mandi

Actors: Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Saeed Jaffrey, Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Synopsis: With songs and musical numbers that are woven through the storyline, this unevenly-paced drama is about a brothel that has been an institution in a small town for a very long time. The women entertain the local clients with suggestive songs and dances and are not the type of prostitutes that ply Read More

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

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron

Arohan

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

Shodh

Actors: Om Puri

Synopsis: Surendra Om Puri, comes back to the village he had escaped as a child, filled with a desire to avenge the murder of his wesalthy father and his own wrongful treatment by the landed gentry many years earlier. Since his father's death was blamed on a "ghost," Surendra offers rewards for any ghosts Read More

Sadgati

Actors: Om Puri, Smita Patil, Mohan Agashe

Synopsis: Noted Indian director Satyajit Ray scripted and arranged the music, as well as directed this brief look into one moment in the caste system in India. When an untouchable (an out-caste, played by Om Puri) approaches the ranking village Brahman (the highest caste, known for learning and wisdom) to Read More

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

Kismat

Actors: Mithun Chakraborty, Ranjeeta, Shakti Kapoor, Om Shivpuri, Jalal Agha

Bhavni Bhavai

Actors: Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Mohan Gokhale, Om Puri, Dina Pathak

Synopsis: This charming fable in the genre of New Indian Cinema brings up the issue of the Indian caste system and its entrenched beliefs from several different perspectives. Once upon a time, the story begins, there was a prince who was taken out of the palace at birth by his evil aunt and thought to have Read More

Marte Dam Tak

Deewaanapan

Angaar

Maati Maangey Khoon

Giddh