New Delhi, November 15: From serving in a tea shop at the age of seven to becoming one of the most respected artiste’s in Indian cinema, veteran actor Om Puri’s journey to the world of showbiz has been a fight against odds.
Born in Ambala, the earliest memories of the actor are of acute poverty and his father’s struggle to put out food on the table, according to his biography ‘Unlikely Hero: Om Puri’.
“Tek Chand (Puri’s father) was very temperamental and hot-headed and kept losing his job every six months. It would take him two months to hunt for a new job and then he would lose is again in six months’ time. Those were days of poverty and of a hand-to-mouth existence for the family,” the book, written by his wife Nandita C Puri, says.
–PTI