Emerging from the National School of Drama's 1978 batch, he spent over a decade with its repertory troupe before entering Hindi cinema, debuting as a corrupt officer in David Dhawan's Shola Aur Shabnam (1992). He became noted for intense antagonistic roles, appearing in films such as Satya, Bandit Queen, Virasat, Oh My God, Johnny Gaddar, and the Marathi venture Kaashi in Search of Ganga.
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