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Om Puri

Om Puri

Indian actor
October 18, 1950 (January 6, 2017)
G.-B. 2017. History by Gurinder Chadha with Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal. The story of the last Viceroy of colonial India, his family, and household staff at the dawn of the division that gave birth to the state of Pakistan.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Lasse Hallstrom with Manish Dayal, Helen Mirren, Om Puri. In the South of France, a widowed exile from Mumbai opens an Indian restaurant with his children, right across the street from a cold and manipulative rival.
Runtime: 122 min.
U.S. 2012. Thriller by Mira Nair with Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson. A Pakistani man who once lived in the United States is interviewed by an American journalist who suspects him of being involved in the kidnapping of a fellow countryman by Islamists.
Runtime: 130 min.
G.-B. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Andy de Emmony with Om Puri, Aqib Khan, Linda Bassett. A Pakistani man who has lived in England for 30 years returns to his native country with his unruly son to make him understand his roots.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 2007. Comedy by Mike Nichols with Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julia Roberts. In the 1980s, a politician tries to finance a CIA operation to support Afghanistan against the Soviet invader.
Runtime: 97 min.
G.-B. 2003. Science-fiction by Michael Winterbottom with Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Jeanne Balibar. In a future where citizens are confined to overcrowded cities, an investigator falls in love with a young woman who traffics fake visas.
Runtime: 93 min.
G.-B. 2003. Drama by Jon Sen with Parminder Nagra, Om Puri, Anupam Kher. In England, the daughters of a rich Indian immigrant who has just come out of a coma deal with heartbreak and old grudges.
Runtime: 120 min.
G.-B. 2002. Chronicle by Julian Jarrold with Phil Davis, Om Puri, Naomie Harris. The tribulations of two working-class families in a multi-ethnic London neighborhood from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.
Runtime: 194 min.
G.-B. 2001. Chronicle by Ismail Merchant with Aasif Mandvi, Om Puri, Ayesha Dharker. In Trinidad in the 1940s, a young unsuccessful writer becomes a famous healer and decides to enter politics.
Runtime: 117 min.

My Little Devil

V.O.: Bas Yaari Rakho
Ind. 2000. Chronicle by Gopi Desai with Rushabh Patni, Om Puri, Pooja Batra. In India, a young orphan has difficulty adjusting to his new life in a Catholic boarding school with strict rules.
Runtime: 87 min.
Ind. 2000. Drama by Rajkumar Santoshi with Om Puri, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit. In India, a mercenary hunted by the army takes a minister hostage.
G.-B. 1999. Mores comedy by Damien O'Donnell with Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge. In 1971, a Pakistani man living in England arranges the marriages of his sons who then rebel against him.
Runtime: 96 min.

Un si long voyage

V.O.: Such a Long Journey
Can. 1998. Mores drama by Sturla Gunnarsson with Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri. In India, an innocent family man is drawn into a dirty money-laundering scheme by a childhood friend.
Runtime: 113 min.
G.-B. 1997. Mores comedy by Udayan Prasad with Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Stellan Skarsgard. In England, a Pakistani cab driver, whose son has become a religious fundamentalist, takes refuge in the arms of a prostitute.
Runtime: 87 min.
G.-B. 1995. Mores drama by Udayan Prasad with Om Puri, Angeline Ball, Pavan Malhotra.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 1993. Sentimental drama by Harvey Crossland with Akesh Gill, Ayub Khan Din, Om Puri. In Vancouver, a young Hindu mother falls in love with a professor whom she follows to India where he has to look after his dying father.
G.-B. 1992. Social drama by Roland Joffé with Patrick Swayze, Om Puri, Pauline Collins. An American doctor visiting Calcutta is recruited by a volunteer nurse who treats destitute in a poor neighborhood.
Runtime: 134 min.
Ind. 1992. Horror by Ram Gopal Varma with Revathi, Rohini Hattangadi, Om Puri. After the family moves, a mother calls an exorcist, convinced that her little girl, who has been behaving more and more disturbingly, is possessed.
Runtime: 127 min.
Can. 1991. Mores comedy by Deepa Mehta with Ranjit Chowdhry, Peter Boretski, Om Puri. Freshly arrived in Toronto, a young Indian boy befriends an eccentric old Jewish man who has been assigned to watch over him.
Runtime: 92 min.

Party (1984)

V.O.: Party
Runtime: 113 min.
G.-B. 1982. Biography by Richard Attenborough with Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth. A profile of the life of the Hindu apostle of non-violence.
Runtime: 188 min.

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