{"id":45116,"date":"2017-01-10T19:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=45116"},"modified":"2017-01-10T19:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T09:00:34","slug":"vale-om-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2017\/01\/10\/vale-om-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Om Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prolific Indian-born film and television actor Om Puri has passed away.<\/p>\n

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Om Puri (L) with Helen Mirren (R) in The Hundred-Foot Journey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Om Puri’s career spanned entire continents. Hugely popular in his homeland India, Mr Puri’s first feature film role came with the 1976 adaption of popular Indian satirical play Ghashiram Kotwal<\/em>. A small role in Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi<\/em> in 1982, as well as the recurring part of Mr De Souza in 1985’s television miniseries The Jewel In The Crown<\/em>, have him a foot into the English speaking film industry, and throughout his career continued to thrive in both Indian, British and Hollywood film industries.<\/p>\n

Among his other English-speaking roles, Om Puri appeared in 1994’s Wolf<\/em> (alongside Jack Nicholson), The Ghost & The Darkness<\/em> in 1996 (with Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas), East Is East<\/em> (for which he snagged a BAFTA Nomination in 1999, 2003’s Code 46<\/em>, and more recently in Charlie Wilson’s War<\/em> (with Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman), The Hundred-Foot Journey<\/em> (with Helen Mirren), and as the Hindi voice of Bagheera in Disney’s 2016 film version of The Jungle Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Om Puri passed away at his home in Mumbai, India, on January 6th, aged 66.<\/p>\n

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