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.
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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.
