Mukri

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Mohammed Umar Muqri
Born(1922-01-05)5 January 1922
Uran, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died4 September 2000(2000-09-04) (aged 78)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
OccupationActor
Years active1945–1994
SpouseMumtaz
RelativesNaseem Mukri (daughter)

Mohammed Umar Mukri (5 January 1922 – 4 September 2000), popularly known as Mukri, was an Indian actor, who worked as a comedian in Hindi films.[1][2]

Born as Muhammad Umar Mukri in Uran. He started his film career with the film Pratima along with noted film actor Dilip Kumar in 1945. They were schoolmates together in the past. Subsequently, in career spanning 50 years, he acted in over 600 films.[3][2]

Mukri, with his toothless smile, diminutive stature and perfect comic timing amused the audiences in more than 600 films, in over six decades in Indian cinema.[4]

His notable films are Mother India (1957), Sharabi (1984), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Laawaris (1981), Bombay to Goa (1972), Gopi (1970), Kohinoor (1960) and many more.

  1. ^ Gulzar; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. p. 341. ISBN 8179910660. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
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