Suresh Oberoi

Suresh Oberoi Biography

Suresh Oberoi Full Information

• Full Name: Suresh Oberoi
• Date of Birth: 17 December 1946
• Place of Birth: Quetta, Baluchistan Province, British India (present-day Balochistan, Pakistan)
• Nationality: Indian
• Profession: Actor, television presenter, film producer and politician
• Industry: Hindi Cinema (Bollywood)
• Active Years: 1977 – present
• Debut Film: Jeevan Mukt (1977)
• Education: St. George’s Grammar School; Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune
• Political Party: Bharatiya Janata Party (member since 2004)

Early life and family

• Father: Anand Sarup Oberoi, who ran a real-estate business
• Mother: Kartar Devi
• Spouse: Yashodhara Oberoi, married in Madras on 1 August 1974
• Children: Vivek Oberoi (actor, born 1976) and daughter Meghna Oberoi
• The family left Quetta for India after the Partition of 1947 and later settled in Hyderabad, where they built a chain of medical stores.
• He was a tennis and swimming champion in his youth and won the President’s Award as a Boy Scout. He began his performing career in radio and modelling before moving into films.

Career Highlight

Oberoi has appeared in more than 135 films, becoming one of Hindi cinema’s most-used character actors through the 1980s and 1990s.

Television and voice work

• Television: Acted in the serials Dhadkan and Kashmeer.
• Hindi dubbing: Voiced Mufasa in the Hindi version of The Lion King, and Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.
• Playback: Recited couplets in the song “Dil Mein Phir Aaj Teri” with Anuradha Paudwal for Yaadon Ka Mausam (1990).

Beyond films

• Politics: Joined the Bharatiya Janata Party as a primary member in 2004.
• Spiritual work: Serves, alongside Brahma Kumaris speaker Sister Shivani Verma, as an ambassador of the World Psychiatric Association, and appears on the Brahma Kumaris programme Awakening with Brahma Kumaris.
• Writing: Writes romantic and philosophical poetry.

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