PM Modi, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Rishi Kapoor Pay Condolences To Veteran Actor Om Puri's Family

Om Puri, 66, passed away after a massive heart attack this morning. A sleu of Bollywood stars took to Twitter to pay condolences to the actor's family...

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PM Modi, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Rishi Kapoor Pay Condolences To Veteran Actor Om Puri's Family
It’s a very sad day for the Indian Film Industry as it has lost one of its finest actors of all time-Om Puri is no more with us.

The veteran actor was 66 years old and the reason of his death was a major cardiac arrest. The entire Bollywood including PM Narendra Modi is mourning his death.

Karan Johar, Anupam Kher, Rishi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Madhuri Dixit, Preity Zinta, Madhur Bhandarkar, Shoojit Sircar, Vishal Dadlani, Onir and PMO India took to Twitter to pay condolence to the actor:















































On hearing the news, SpotboyE.com immediately called on his personal number, which was answered by a female voice. Sounding extremely disturbed, she said, “Om Puri has been taken to the hospital. Seema, his first wife, is extremely unstable to talk and even she has gone to the hospital.”

Om Puri was last seen in Sunny Deol’s Ghayal One Again in 2016 as ACP Joe D'Souza and also appeared for a short role in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Mirzya. His work in films like Aastha, Arohan, Ardh Satya are highly acclaimed. His comic roles in films like Hera Pheri, Singh Is King, Malamaal Weekly, Action Replayy were masterpieces.

Om Puri has appeared in mainstream Bollywood cinema as well as Pakistani, British and Hollywood films. Born in Ambala, Haryana, to a Punjabi family, the actor made his debut in a Marathi film Ghashiram Kotwal in 1972. The critically acclaimed actor was one of the prominent names of parallel cinema that changed Indian cinema in the 1980s. A two time National Award Winner, the actor was honoured with the Padmashri in 1990.



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