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Kulbhushan Kharbanda (Hindi: कुलभूषण खरबंदा) is an Indian actor, who worked in Hindi and Punjabi films, and is known as character Shakaal in Shaan (1980) inspired by the character of Blofeld from James Bond movies. Starting with Delhi-based theatre group Yatrik in the 1960s, he moved to films with Sai Paranjpye's Jadu Ka Shankh in 1974, he worked several parallel cinema films, before working in mainstream Bollywood. He later appeared Mahesh Bhatt classic, Arth (1982), Ek Chadar Maili Si (1986), and in all three parts of Deepa Mehta's Elements trilogy, Fire (1996),... MORE
Kulbhushan Kharbanda (Hindi: कुलभूषण खरबंदा) is an Indian actor, who worked in Hindi and Punjabi films, and is known as character Shakaal in Shaan (1980) inspired by the character of Blofeld from James Bond movies. Starting with Delhi-based theatre group Yatrik in the 1960s, he moved to films with Sai Paranjpye's Jadu Ka Shankh in 1974, he worked several parallel cinema films, before working in mainstream Bollywood. He later appeared Mahesh Bhatt classic, Arth (1982), Ek Chadar Maili Si (1986), and in all three parts of Deepa Mehta's Elements trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005). Kharbanda has also worked in mainstream cinema, parallel cinema as well Punjabi films.
Born in Hassanabdal - Kambelpur (now in Pakistan), known for the historic Gurdwara Panja Sahib, his family migrated to India after partition, did his schooling from Minto Circle, S.T High School, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and later Kharbanda did his graduation from Ramjas College, Delhi University.
After his studies he joined Delhi-based Yatrik, a bilingual theatre repertory founded by director Joy Michael in 1964, and became its first paid artiste, though after a few years Yatrik collapsed as LESS
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