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Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Kulbhushan Kharbanda
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Kharbanda in Feb 2012
Born (1944-10-21) 21 October 1944 (age 72)
Hasan Abdal, Punjab, British India, (Now in Pakistan)
Occupation actor
Years active 1974 – present
Spouse(s) Maheshwari Devi Kharbanda
Children Shruti Kharbanda, Kriti Kharbanda

Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor, who works in Hindi and Punjabi films. He is better known for his role as antagonist Shakaal in Shaan (1980) inspired by the character of Blofeld from James Bond movies. Starting with Delhi-based theatre group Yatrik in the 1960s, he moved to films with Sai Paranjpye's Jadu Ka Shankh in 1974, he worked in several parallel cinema films, before working in mainstream Hindi film industry. He later appeared in Mahesh Bhatt's classic, Arth (1982), Ek Chadar Maili Si (1986), and in all three parts of Deepa Mehta's Elements trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005).

After nearly two decades he was seen on the theatre stage at the Padatik Theatre in Kolkata's production, of Atmakatha, directed by Vinay Sharma.

Kharbanda was born on 21st October 1944 in Hassanabdal, , Punjab, British India, which is known for the historic Gurdwara Panja Sahib. His family moved after partition and he did his early schooling from Jodhpur, Dehradun, Aligarh & Delhi. Later Kharbanda did his graduation from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University.

After his studies he and a few of his college friends formed a theatre group called "Abhiyaan", and then joined Delhi-based Yatrik, a bilingual theatre repertory founded by director Joy Michael in 1964, and became its first paid artiste, though after a few years Yatrik collapsed as the director was lecturing in US universities. That is when he moved to Kolkata and started working with "Padatik" theatre group which did Hindi theatre, under director Shyamanand Jalanin 1972. Here he worked for a while, before moving to films and Mumbai.


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