Om Puri's English Movies
Om Puri appeared in 20 non-Indian productions in the United States, Pakistan and Britain.
Om Puri is widely regarded as one of the finest actors in the Indian cinema.
He won two National Film Awards for Best Actor, two Filmfare Awards and India's fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri in 1990.
In 2004, he was made an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
In the 1990s, he appeared in My Son the Fanatic (1997) and the comedy drama East Is East (1999), receiving a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
He also worked in a French Hindi Bilingual Mon petit diable not available in IMDb.
International Award
1984: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Actor for Ardh Satya
1998: Brussels International Film Festival Best Actor for My Son the Fanatic
1998: Grand Prix Special des Amériques Montréal World Film Festival for exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art
2017: International Pakistan Prestige Awards Best Supporting Actor for Actor in Law
Om Puri is widely regarded as one of the finest actors in the Indian cinema.
He won two National Film Awards for Best Actor, two Filmfare Awards and India's fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri in 1990.
In 2004, he was made an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
In the 1990s, he appeared in My Son the Fanatic (1997) and the comedy drama East Is East (1999), receiving a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
He also worked in a French Hindi Bilingual Mon petit diable not available in IMDb.
International Award
1984: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Actor for Ardh Satya
1998: Brussels International Film Festival Best Actor for My Son the Fanatic
1998: Grand Prix Special des Amériques Montréal World Film Festival for exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art
2017: International Pakistan Prestige Awards Best Supporting Actor for Actor in Law
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- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsRanjit ChowdhryPeter BoretskiOm Puri23-year-old Nikhil comes to Canada from India to find his fortune and is convinced by his uncle to work as a companion and care-giver to Sam, an elderly Jewish man. An unlikely friendship ensues, which gives both men new insight into life.It was Deepa Mehta's debut movie as a director.
The film went on to win an honourable mention at the Cannes Film Festival. - DirectorRoland JofféStarsPatrick SwayzePauline CollinsOm PuriAn American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer unite to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsJack NicholsonMichelle PfeifferJames SpaderPublisher Will Randall becomes a demon wolf and has to fight to keep his job.Wolf won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick's screenplay.
- DirectorUdayan PrasadStarsOm PuriPawan MalhotraAngeline BallAmir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.
- DirectorStephen HopkinsStarsMichael DouglasVal KilmerTom WilkinsonA bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler.
- DirectorUdayan PrasadStarsOm PuriRachel GriffithsAkbar KurthaPakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.It won Brussels International Film Festival, best actor award for Om Puri in 1998.
- DirectorSturla GunnarssonStarsRoshan SethSoni RazdanOm PuriCirca 1971, Gustad Noble lives in a one bedroom hall rented apartment in Byculla, Bombay. He travels to work everyday by Central Railway to Victoria Terminus and walks to Flora Fountain to his place of employment, namely the Central Bank of India. He has three children, Sohrab - who has finished his college studies and is now being admitted, much to his dislike, to Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.); while Darius, his second son, and daughter, Roshan, are school-going; his wife, Dilnavaz, looks after the children and the household. Their neighborhood is filthy, people urinate and defecate near the wall which encloses their building. Gustad asks a pavement artist to move near his building, draw pictures of religious Gods and Goddesses depicting the four main religions: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism. The Artist agrees, and soon the place is transformed into a huge temple where people of all religions come to pay their respects. It is only a handful of people who know that Gustad is involved with a rebel RAW Agent, Major Jimmy Billimoria, who is actively involved with an extremist organization in East Pakistan, Awami League, aiding them financially and with manpower to overcome the Pakistani Government. The question remains what will Gustad's plight be when the news gets out of his involvement in this activity, especially when he receives 10 lakh rupees to be deposited in small installments in his Bank, in the midst of sentiments running high, war being declared between Pakistan and India, emergency blackout conditions and air raid sirens.The film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- DirectorDamien O'DonnellStarsOm PuriLinda BassettJordan RoutledgeIn early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.The film won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the BAFTA Awards, and was declared Best Comedy Film at the British Comedy Awards. It also won the Espiga de Oro at Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) in 1999.
The screenwriter, Ayub Khan-Din, won both a British Independent Film Award and a London Critics' Circle Film Awards for his screenplay. He was also nominated for two BAFTA Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer, and for a European Film Award for Best Screenwriter.
Actor Puri was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
The director, Damien O'Donnell, won Best Debut at the UK Empire Awards, won the Evening Standard British Film Awards and Fantasporto for Best Film, won the OCIC Special Award at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, won the Kingfisher Award at the Ljubljana International Film Festival, and received a number of nominations, among them a British Independent Film Awards nomination and a David di Donatello Awards nomination. - DirectorJohn DuiganStarsSteve CooganLena HeadeyEmma GilmourA failed parole officer framed for murder must enlist the help of his former clients to clear his name.
- DirectorPhilippa CousinsStarsPhilip HoweEmmy RossumRobert PughA teenage girl whose eerie resemblance to a local Welsh beauty queen killed 14 years earlier disturbs one of the men responsibile for her accidental death.
- DirectorRalph ZimanStarsSam NeillGina McKeeUlrich ThomsenIn the midst of a devastating civil war in an Eastern European country, a disillusioned ex-Communist is left behind to take care of the animals in the capital's zoological gardens until a U.N. rescue force arrives.
- DirectorNagesh KukunoorStarsPat CusickNavin NischolOm PuriAn alcoholic, cancer-ridden American film-maker decides to produce a Bollywood movie.It was screened at the Rome Film Festival, and the MAMI Film Festival.
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsTim RobbinsSamantha MortonOm PuriA futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsTom HanksJulia RobertsPhilip Seymour HoffmanA drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.The film was directed by Mike Nichols (his final film) and written by Aaron Sorkin, who adapted George Crile III's 2003 book Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History.
It was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, but did not win in any category. Hoffman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - DirectorAndy De EmmonyStarsAqib KhanOm PuriLinda BassettAn immigrant father decides to take his truant son back to the old country.The film was first shown at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September.
It premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on 19 October 2010.
The first US showing was on 2 November 2010 at the South Asian International Film Festival, followed by several other US festivals.
While it was released in Canada on 25 March 2011, it never received a US release. - DirectorLasse HallströmStarsHelen MirrenOm PuriManish DayalThe Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.For her performance in the film, Helen Mirren was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the category Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.
- DirectorLarry SmithStarsAmanda DonohoeSahajak BoonthanakitOm PuriWhen a young Vietnamese-Australian thug botches a gangland assassination and runs into serious debt with his triad, his younger brother is forced to embark on a harrowing drug run from Vietnam to pay off the mob bosses.
- DirectorSarah SinghStarsAsif BasraDiksha BasuMokhtar BelaliaA Million Rivers is a surrealist, quasi-narrative fiction film set in South Asia. Themes of fragmentation and fantasy are explored in this black and white contemporary classic: a man with a mirror reflects all that is around him, never turning the mirror to reveal himself.
- DirectorNabeel QureshiStarsMehwish HayatFahad MustafaOm PuriEstranged from his attorney father, an aspiring actor poses as a lawyer who becomes a celebrity for taking on difficult cases.It won 5 Lux Style Awards including the Best Film award at the 16th Lux Style Awards.
It won 5 International Pakistan Prestige Awards 2017 including Best Supporting Actor for Om Puri.
It won 2 Pakistan International Film Festival. - DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsHugh BonnevilleGillian AndersonManish DayalThe final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.It was selected to be screened out of competition at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
The film was dubbed in Hindi titled Partition: 1947 and was released in India on 18 August 2017.
It was banned in Pakistan.