Nirmal Pandey

Nirmal Pandey

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Nirmal Pandey Profile

  • Name:
  • Nirmal Pandey
  • Born:
  • August 10, 1962
  • Died:
  • February 18, 2010
  • Spouse:
  • Archana Sharma

Nirmal Pandey Biography

Nirmal Pandey was a successful Bollywood actor most known for negative roles. Yet he has portrayed many off-beat positive roles as well. He did many memorable and critically acclaimed roles in the era of 1990’s like Bandit Queen, Dayra, Is raat ki subah nahi, Train to Pakistan and Godmother. His last appearance was in critically acclaimed movie of 2010, Lahore which released after his death. He died at Mumbai on 18 February 2010 following a heart attack. He was only 47 then. Apart from Hindi movies, he has also appeared in a few Telugu movies and television serials. Deshdrohi, Aaja Nachle, Raajkumar Aaryyan (TV series) and Kedi (Telugu film) are his last appearances. He played a comic role in 2000 comedy movie - Hadh Kar Di Aapne. He has also appeared in Hindi music videos like Maar daala (alongside Mallika Sherawat) and Gabbar Mix.

 

His real name is Rajkumar Pandey and he was born on 10 August 1962 in Nainital of present-day Uttarakhand. His education was completed at Almora and Nainital and after college studies, he graduated from prestigious NSD. After graduation from National school of Drama, he joined a theatre group Tara at London for a short period before moving back to India. He had already performed more than 125 plays till then and started working in Bollywood in bit roles.

 

Bandit Queen released in 1996 was his first noted Bollywood movie in which he portrayed the role of Vikram Mallah. Amol Palekar's Daayra was his second noted work in which he played the lead role of a transvestite. The movie was shown at several international film festivals and he won Best Actor Valenti award in France for the same role. This movie proved to be the real breakthrough of his career and later he experimented with villain roles as well as comic ones. Shikar, Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya, Deewangee, One two ka 4 and Auzaar are other noted appearances.

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Updated: March 27, 2014

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