Veteran actor Om Puri dies at age 66
Veteran Bollywood actor Om Puri died on Friday in Mumbai, close friend and actor Anupam Kher said.
Puri, 66, died from cardiac arrest, Kher told Reuters.
Puri made a name for himself in the 1980s with the alternative art cinema that found a niche audience in India, playing several memorable characters that depicted the anger and angst of those times.
He also worked in a number of Hollywood and British films, including "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", "East is East", and most recently in "The Hundred-Foot Journey".
Puri made a name for himself in the 1980s with the alternative art cinema that found a niche audience in India, playing several memorable characters that depicted the anger and angst of those times.
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