BOLLYWOOD: Anjan Srivastav

Saturday, 16 June 2012

Anjan Srivastav

Aanjjan Srivatsav (also Aanjjan Srivatav) (born June 2, 1948) is an Indian film, television and stage actor, associated with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in Mumbai of which he remained Vice-President for several years. Outside theatre, he is best known as acharacter actor in Marathi and Hindi films, most notably,Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! Mississippi Masala and Anupam Mittal's Flavors and Bollywood films like Gol Maal, Bemisal, Khuda Gawah, Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa,Pukar. On television he made his mark as the quintessential "common man" in the TV series Wagle Ki Duniya (Wagle's World) (1988–90) and Wagle Ki Nayi Duniya, where he played the lead role, apart from Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi (1984) and Nukkad.Over the 25 years, he has also acted in about 30 plays like, many of them jubilee hits, including Bakri, Moteram Ka Satyagrah,Shatranj Ke Mohre, Ek Aur Dronacharya, Chakkar Pe Chakkar.