Roshan Seth
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Roshan Seth (born August 17, 1942) is a British-Indian actor.
Seth was born in New Delhi, India, the son of a professor of biochemistry.[1] He was educated at The Doon School, further doing graduation in History at St Stephen's College,honing his theatrical skills at the Shakespeare society before moving on to UK for further training. A native of New Delhi, India, British character actor of theater and film Roshan Seth honed the skills he learned at London's Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in British repertory theater.
His first break came in Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which toured in 1972. Seth entered feature films in Richard Lester's Juggernaut (1974), but because subsequent filmmakers only wanted Seth for ethnic roles, his career abruptly stalled.
Discouraged, he abandoned acting and returned to India, where he worked as an editor and journalist until the early '80s, when Richard Attenborough asked Seth to play Pandit Nehru in Gandhi (1982). (He also played Nehru in the March 2007 drama-documentary 'The Last Days of the Raj' broadcast on British TV Channel 4 on 12 March 2007).
Shortly thereafter, Seth essayed Indian author Victor Mehta and toured the globe in playwright David Hare's biography "A Map of the World". After the play's Broadway run, Seth's movie career took off, with roles in George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and David Lean's A Passage to India (1984). Seth's subsequent film credits include Mississippi Masala (1992), Street Fighter (1994), and The Journey (1997).
He recently came back into main stream Indian commercial cinema with his crisp role in the Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai starrer Guru.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 1974 | Juggernaut | Azad |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1984 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Chattar Lal |
| A Passage to India | Advocate Amrit Rao | |
| 1985 | My Beautiful Laundrette | Papa |
| 1989 | Slipstream | George |
| 1990 | Mountains of the Moon | Ben Amir |
| 1871 | Lord Grafton | |
| 1991 | Not Without My Daughter | Houssein |
| Mississippi Masala | Jay | |
| London Kills Me | Dr. Bubba | |
| 1992 | Electric Moon | Ranveer |
| 1992 | Stalin | Beria |
| 1994 | Street Fighter | Dr. Dhalsim |
| 1995 | Bideshi | Ajoy |
| Solitaire for 2 | Sandip Tamar | |
| 1997 | The Journey | Kishan Singh |
| 1998 | Bombay Boys | Pesi Shroff |
| Such a Long Journey | Gustad Noble | |
| 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence | Sheikh Kamal |
| Secret of the Andes | Don Benito | |
| 2000 | Vertical Limit | Colonel Amir Salim |
| 2001 | Monsoon Wedding | Mohan Rai |
| Wings of Hope | Shekar Khanna | |
| South West 9 | Ravi | |
| 2004 | Spivs | Omar |
| 2005 | Frozen | Noyen |
| Proof | Professor Bhandari | |
| 2006 | Broken Thread | Dasa |
| 2007 | Guru | Chief of Enquiry Commission |
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