Paresh Rawal: King of Comedy - Episode III

Paresh Rawal is a versatile actor who transformed himself from dreadful villainous roles (Naam, Izzat, etc) to Dramas (Tammana, Sardar - won National Awards) till comedies (Hera Pheri). After five episodes of Johny Lever: King of Comedy , we bring you another four episodes (one episode every weekend [45 mins]) King of Comedy - Paresh Rawal.

Paresh Rawal (Gujarati: પરેશ રાવળ Pareś Rāvaḷ ) (b. May 30, 1950) is an Indian actor from Bollywood, Mumbai of Gujarati background. Making his film debut in 1984, he played many supporting and villain roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Since 2000 he has mostly played comedic roles.

It’s impossible to categorise Paresh Rawal; he’s that good. He can make you laugh, cry or quake with fear!
From Hera Pheri to Baghban, this versatile actor gets into the skin of the character so completely that it is hard to say when the character ends and Paresh the man begins.

Rawal made his debut with the 1984 film Holi. He then appeared in over 100 films throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

His most notable films included Sardar (1992) in which he plays the lead role of freedom fighter Vallabhbhai Patel, Maya Memsaab (1992), a film based on Madame Bovary, in which he played a scheming shop-owner who entraps the title character into a series of financial schemes and the critically acclaimed Tamaana (1996) where he played the challenging and ground-breaking role of a hijra (person of “third” gender, typically male transgender) who raises a young, orphaned girl, (played by Pooja Bhatt).

In 2000, Rawal played a dim-witted and boisterous, but kind-hearted Marathi landlord Baburao Ganpatrao Apte in the film Hera Pheri who takes in Raju (Akshay Kumar) and Shyam (Sunil Shetty). Rawal’s acting was a key reason for the major nationwide success the film received. He reprised his role as Baburao in Phir Hera Pheri (2006) which was also successful.

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