Emerging from a Punjabi family in Amritsar, he completed a commerce degree at Sydenham College before entering the performing arts, first appearing in a Doordarshan children’s drama at twelve and later working as a stage manager. His screen debut arrived with Shyam Benegal’s Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda (1992), and the following year he embodied the iconic detective Byomkesh Bakshi in a Basu Chatterjee-d…
