Bollywood actor Amrish Puri dies
Amrish Puri, the veteran Bollywood actor best known to western audiences for his role as the villainous cult leader in Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, died of a brain hemorrhage Wednesday morning at a hospital in Mumbai. He was 72.
Born in 1932, Puri was a theatre and radio actor before beginning his movie career in his late 30s with the love story Reshma aur Shera (Reshma and Shera).
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