Emerging from a Kashmiri family in Srinagar, the performer honed his craft at the National School of Drama, completing his studies in 1976. He gained recognition for portraying Juror #8 in the 1986 courtroom drama Ek Ruka Hua Faisla, a faithful adaptation of Twelve Angry Men, and later appeared as Shivnath, the brother of Sunny Deol’s hero in the action film Ghatak. Television audiences remembered…
