Born into a Punjabi Hindu family that migrated from Pakistan after partition, Puneet Issar is the son of director Sudesh Issar and a trained artist who also holds an eighth-degree black belt; he later worked as a dialect coach, teaching speech, diction and physical gestures. He entered cinema as a villain in Manmohan Desai’s Coolie (1983) and achieved nationwide recognition portraying Duryodhana i…
