Om Puri's English Movies
by admirbeuty | created - 30 Oct 2022 | updated - 24 Nov 2022 | PublicOm 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
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1. Sam & Me (1991)
R | 94 min | Drama
23-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.
Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Ranjit Chowdhry, Peter Boretski, Om Puri, Heath Lamberts
Votes: 140
It was Deepa Mehta's debut movie as a director.
The film went on to win an honourable mention at the Cannes Film Festival.
2. City of Joy (1992)
PG-13 | 132 min | Drama
An 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.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi
Votes: 5,629 | Gross: $14.68M
3. Wolf (1994)
R | 125 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Publisher Will Randall becomes a demon wolf and has to fight to keep his job.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan
Votes: 60,345 | Gross: $65.01M
Wolf won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick's screenplay.
4. Brothers in Trouble (1995)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Amir 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... See full summary »
Director: Udayan Prasad | Stars: Om Puri, Pawan Malhotra, Angeline Ball, Ace Bhatti
Votes: 145
5. The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
R | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani
Votes: 65,997 | Gross: $38.62M
It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler.
6. My Son the Fanatic (1997)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
Director: Udayan Prasad | Stars: Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Akbar Kurtha, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 1,662 | Gross: $0.41M
It won Brussels International Film Festival, best actor award for Om Puri in 1998.
7. Such a Long Journey (1998)
113 min | Drama
Circa 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah
Votes: 488 | Gross: $0.09M
The film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
8. East Is East (1999)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.
Director: Damien O'Donnell | Stars: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi
Votes: 20,059 | Gross: $4.17M
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.
9. The Parole Officer (2001)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
A failed parole officer framed for murder must enlist the help of his former clients to clear his name.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Steve Coogan, Lena Headey, Emma Gilmour, Susan Jane Tanner
Votes: 7,168
10. Happy Now (2001)
97 min | Comedy, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Philippa Cousins | Stars: Philip Howe, Emmy Rossum, Robert Pugh, Sioned Jones
Votes: 585
11. The Zookeeper (2001)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, War
In 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.
Director: Ralph Ziman | Stars: Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen, Om Puri
Votes: 4,354
12. Bollywood Calling (2001)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
An alcoholic, cancer-ridden American film-maker decides to produce a Bollywood movie.
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor | Stars: Pat Cusick, Navin Nischol, Om Puri, Perizaad Zorabian
Votes: 403
It was screened at the Rome Film Festival, and the MAMI Film Festival.
13. Code 46 (2003)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Togo Igawa
Votes: 21,133 | Gross: $0.20M
14. Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
R | 102 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A 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.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Votes: 124,941 | Gross: $66.66M
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.
15. West Is West (2010)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
An immigrant father decides to take his truant son back to the old country.
Director: Andy De Emmony | Stars: Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Robert Pugh
Votes: 3,273
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.
16. The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
PG | 122 min | Comedy, Drama
The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon
Votes: 87,651 | Gross: $54.24M
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.
17. Trafficker (2015)
90 min | Action, Drama
When 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.
Director: Larry Smith | Stars: Amanda Donohoe, Om Puri, Vithaya Pansringarm, Kelly B. Jones
Votes: 102
18. A Million Rivers (2016)
Drama
A 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... See full summary »
Director: Sarah Singh | Stars: Asif Basra, Diksha Basu, Mokhtar Belalia, Lillete Dubey
19. Actor in Law (2016)
116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Estranged from his attorney father, an aspiring actor poses as a lawyer who becomes a celebrity for taking on difficult cases.
Director: Nabeel Qureshi | Stars: Mehwish Hayat, Fahad Mustafa, Om Puri, Nayyar Ejaz
Votes: 2,829
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.
20. Viceroy's House (2017)
Not Rated | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
The 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.
Director: Gurinder Chadha | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi
Votes: 8,563 | Gross: $1.11M
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.
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