Sadashiv Amrapurkar

Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Monochrome portrait of Amrapurkar
Born
Sadashiv Dattaray Amrapurkar

(1950-05-11)11 May 1950 [1]
Died3 November 2014(2014-11-03) (aged 64)
OccupationsActor
Years active1979–2014
Spouse
Sunanda Amrapurkar
(m. 1973)
AwardsFilmfare Awards for Best Supporting Actor in Ardh Satya (1983)
Best Villain for Sadak (1991)

Sadashiv Dattaray Amrapurkar (11 May 1950 – 3 November 2014) was an Indian actor, best known for his performances in Marathi and Hindi films from 1983 to 2013.[2] He acted in more than 300 movies in Hindi, Marathi, and other regional languages. Amrapurkar played a negative role against Dharmendra in Anil Sharma's first successful movie Hukumat in 1987.

He received the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role in 1991 for Sadak — the first time the award was instituted. In 1993, he won the Filmfare Award for best actor in a villainous role, when the award was instituted. In 1993, Amrapurkar also played a comic hero, Inspector Pyare Mohan, in Aankhen. In addition to negative roles, he played supporting roles and later, comic roles.

  1. ^ Kotwani, Hiren; Sinha, Seema (4 November 2014). "Sadashiv Amrapurkar was the first recipient of Filmfare's Best Actor in a villanious role". The Times of India. The Times Group. Archived from the original on 6 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar passes away". The Times of India. The Times Group. 3 November 2014. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.