That Om Puri was a close friend of Naseeruddin Shah is well-known, but little is known about the time when the Ardh Satya actor saved the latter’s life during a knife attack. The incident during which Jaspal, one of Shah’s former friends stabbed him with a knife at a restaurant, finds mention in Shah’s autobiography And Then One Day: A Memoir.
Category: Om Puri
When Om Puri deserved an Oscar
‘I started learning to pull a rickshaw from two regular rickshaw-pullers.’ ‘Once I stopped at a roadside tea-stall to have a cup of tea.’