Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Kharbanda is the kind of actor I quietly trust. Born in 1944 in what is now Pakistan, he built a career across more than half a century of Indian cinema, immortalised as the villain Shakaal in Shaan yet just as comfortable in the demanding world of parallel cinema. What impresses me is the range: a theatre-trained craftsman who moved fluidly between art-house gravity and mainstream spectacle. There is an educated, lived-in intelligence to performers like him, the sort whose mere presence steadies a film. I rate that durability far above flash; longevity in cinema is its own quiet kind of greatness, and he has it.

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Name (English)

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Name (Japanese)

クルブーシャン・カールバンダー

Reading

くるぶーしゃん・かーるばんだー

Born

October 21, 1944 (age 81)

Origin

Hasan Abdal, Attock District, Pakistan

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

University

Aligarh Muslim University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulbhushan%20Kharbanda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%96%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q677439

Tags

• Attock District
• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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