KULBHUSHAN KHARBANDA

Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor was born in Hassanabdal - Kambelpur (now in Pakistan) on 21 October 1944, known for the historic Gurdwara Panja Sahib, his family migrated to India after partition, did his schooling from Minto Circle , S.T High School, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and later Mr. Kharbanda did his graduation from Karorimal College, Delhi University.

Mr. Kharbanda worked in Hindi and Punjabi films, and is known 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 several parallel cinema films, before working in mainstream Bollywood. He later appeared Mahesh Bhatt 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). Kharbanda has also worked in mainstream cinema, parallel cinema as well Punjabi films.