Biography
Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor who works in Hindi and Punjabi films. Born on 21 October 1944 in Hasan Abdal, Punjab, British India (now in Pakistan), he trained in theatre, first with the Delhi-based group Yatrik and later with Padatik in Kolkata, before moving into films in 1974.
He gained early recognition in parallel cinema through Shyam Benegal's Nishant (1974) and subsequent collaborations, and became known to wider audiences as the villain Shakaal in Shaan (1980). Kharbanda has appeared in numerous films across parallel and mainstream cinema, including Arth (1982), Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001), Monsoon Wedding (2001) as C. L. Chadha, Water (2005), Jodhaa Akbar (2008) and Haider (2014), as well as the series Mirzapur (2018) as Satyanand 'Bauji' Tripathi.
