\u201cThe artists will all miss him and it\u2019s a big loss to the industry. His name was taken along the great artists of the world, not just India,\u201d film director Prakash Jha said, as he joined several people from the Indian film industry outside Puri\u2019s Mumbai home.
Puri had won a slew of national awards and international fame for his work in several critically acclaimed films.
Friends and family members carry the mortal remains of deceased Indian actor Om Puri for his funeral in Mumbai on January 6, 2017. Om Puri, the acclaimed Indian actor who appeared in hit films including \u201cGandhi\u201d, \u201cCity of Joy\u201d and \u201cEast is East\u201d, died on January 6 after suffering a heart attack.
His breakthrough film was the 1983 gritty drama \u201cArdh Satya,\u201d or \u201cHalf Truth,\u201d about a young policeman\u2019s crisis of conscience as he deals with the nexus of crime and politics in India.
Puri is also remembered for his work in the 1983 cult classic \u201cJaane Bhi Do Yaaro,\u201d or \u201cLet it Go Friends,\u201d a dark comedy about India\u2019s all-encompassing corruption.
He was also acclaimed for his performance in the 1997 British film \u201cMy Son the Fanatic,\u201d as a Muslim taxi driver appalled by his son\u2019s embrace of fundamentalist Islam.
In the 1999 British comedy \u201cEast is East,\u201d he played a Pakistani immigrant in England who bumbles about as he tries to wrap his head around the clash of cultures that arises from his relationship with his children from a marriage to a British Catholic woman.
He also had a small role in Richard Attenborough\u2019s film \u201cGandhi,\u201d based on the life of the Indian freedom leader Mohandas Gandhi. He also acted in several Hollywood films, including \u201cCity of Joy,\u201d \u2018\u2019Wolf\u201d and \u201cCharlie Wilson\u2019s War.\u201d
In 2014, Puri starred with British actress Helen Mirren in the comedy \u201cThe Hundred-Foot Journey\u201d as the patriarch of a family of Indian immigrants who open a restaurant in a French town but end up clashing with a neighborhood Michelin-starred establishment.
Puri studied acting at the leading Film and Television Institute of India and the National School of Drama. He was made an honorary officer of the Order of the British Empire for his contribution to British cinema in 2004.<\/p>\n

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