{"id":15796,"date":"2013-07-13T00:07:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T00:07:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-07-13T00:07:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T00:07:43","slug":"Veteran-Bollywood-villain-Pran-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15796","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Bollywood villain Pran dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Veteran Indian film actor Pran Krishan Sikand, popularly known as Pran, has died in Mumbai at the age of 93.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pran<\/strong> was famous for playing the part of the villain in Hindi films, in a career that stretched more than six decades.<\/p>\n<p>Between the 1960s and 1980s, he appeared in nearly every major Bollywood film, elevating the role of the villain to cult status.<\/p>\n<p>He won many honors throughout his career, including the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pran Krishan Sikand came to Mumbai from what is now Pakistan.<\/strong> A chance encounter with a screenwriter is said to have led him to his first role in a Punjabi film, Yamla Jat, in 1940.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving to India after partition, he started out as the main protagonist.<\/strong> But after excelling as a villain, he was almost invariably cast in such roles.<\/p>\n<p>He played in more than 350 films, including the blockbusters of their day.<\/p>\n<p>Most famously, he played opposite Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan in the 1973 film Zanjeer, in which Pran underwent a dramatic transformation into a good man.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VmFm-WbGL48\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Indian film actor Pran Krishan Sikand, popularly known as Pran, has died in Mumbai at the age of 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