Actor madan puri biography

Indian character actor

For the Indian-American statistician, see Madan Lal Puri.

Madan Puri (30 September 1915 – 13 January 1985) was an Indian actor of Hindi and Punjabi films.

His brothers were actors Chaman Puri and Amrish Puri. As a character actor mainly in negative roles (villain), he acted in about 430 films in a career spanning above fifty years.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Madan Lal Puri was born in Nawanshahr, Punjab, in a Punjabi Hindu family, to Nihal Chand Puri and Ved Kaur.

He studied in Rahon. He was the second of five children, with elder brother Chaman Puri, younger brothers Amrish Puri and Harish Lal Puri and younger sister Chandrakanta Mehra.

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He was an cousin of singing sensation Kundan Lal Sehgal.^[2]

Career

Puri was one of the doyens of the Indian film industry in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was the first cousin of the singer K.

L. Saigal,^[1] with whose help he started to make a mark in Bollywood. O