Ram Sethi

Ram Sethi, also known as Pyare-laal, is an Indian actor with a career spanning 60 years so far.

Ram Sethi
Born
Ram Sethi

(1938-11-15) 15 November 1938[1]
NationalityIndian
OccupationFilm actor, producer, television host
Years active1960–present
Children2

Biography

Ram Sethi (Pyarelal) entered the Indian film industry in 1969, and started off his career as an assistant to Ravi Tandon (the father of Raveena Tandon). After doing some free-lance work, he joined Prakash Mehra, and was employed as his right-hand man for over 20 years. Here he did many projects with actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Jeetendra, Shashi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Raaj Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Sridevi, Smita Patil, Parveen Babi, Pran, Amjad Khan and many other new actors.

He has worked as an actor/writer/director for many movies in the last 46 years. Along with these skills, he also worked as an assistant director, screenplay writer, dialogue writer; and independently directed Ghungroo, starring Shashi Kapoor, Smita Patil, and Waheeda Rehman. He appeared in comical roles with Amitabh Bachchan in several films (Sethi's most notable appearances along with Bachchan include Namak Halaal, Zanjeer and Kaalia).

He currently resides in Versova, Mumbai and is working as an actor, screenplay writer, consulting director and advisor for film-making.

Filmography

100 films

Award nominations

References
  1. Cloud, John (16 December 2006). "The Gurus of YouTube". Time Magazine. Retrieved 29 November 2008.
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