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Gulshan Grover (Punjabi: ਗੁਲਸ਼ਨ ਗਰੋਵਰ; born 21 September 1955) is an Indian actor, who has appeared in several Hindi and Punjabi language films.
Early life
He was born to Ramrakhi Grover and Bishambar Nath Grover.Grover comes from a Punjabi background. After Independence, His parents migrated from Rawalpindi to Delhi, where his father Bishambar Nath Grover ran a cloth store at Trinagar. He has two brothers and two sisters.
School Days
During his childhood he studied at Government school in Trinagar.He was part of the dramatics and debating society at school and his acting life started playing the part of Abhimanyu in his first play. He was passionate about acting from childhood. When guests were at home, he would enact scenes from various plays.During his school days he used to help his father at their shop.Grower once worked as door-to-door salesperson for washing powder and phenyl assisting his father in days of penury.
College Days
He graduated from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University in BCom(Honors).During his college days he was elected as cultural secretary. He participated in plays and, sometimes, girls from Miranda House and Indraprastha College for Women invited him to play the male protagonist in their plays. Side by side, He joined the Little Theatre Group. He was presented the Madan Mohan (music director)Award for doing the college proud in extra-curricular activities. Subsequently, He enrolled for the MCom course but, by then, He had made up my mind: He wanted to become an actor. Fascinated by the lifestyle of rich kids, he planned to do something which would make him popular.
Grower the Actor : Days of Struggle
He wanted to try his luck in Bombay and decided to go there and promised his parents that he would return in two months. In Bombay, he stayed in all sorts of places - dormitories, guest-house verandahs. Since he never had a fixed address, money-orders sent from home got misplaced. There were days when he went without food.
But even after six months, He had achieved nothing. When He returned home, He had lost so much weight that His family forbade him from going back. But, a couple of months later, He turned a deaf ear to protests from his mother and joined Roshan Taneja's acting school.
Sanjay Dutt, Anil Kapoor and Mazhar Khan were his batch-mates at the acting school, where He was taught that there was no conventional way of becoming a successful actor. For one year, He just concentrated on acting. He have had a high opinion of Roshan Taneja - he gave him a job at the institute as soon as he was through with the course. Soon enough, He received his first pay cheque - Rs 4,000!
During his years of struggle, whenever he ran out of money, he would head for the house of a friend - Vinay Shukla - to grab a bite. In one interesting incident just as he was about to enter vinay's home, He saw Shabana Azmi sitting there. His socks were ragged and torn and feeling ashamed of this He felt like returning rather than taking off his shoes in front of her.But a hungry Grower stayed on even he felt uncomfortable throughout.
On another occasion, producer Rajiv Mehra invited him for his wedding. Anil Kappor and Grower always attended functions together and went to a tailor's shop to borrow suits. But while the tailor offered Anil Kapoor suits stitched for other actors,as he was convinced that kapoor would become a star some day, Grower used to get shirts which had been rejected by customers.
Beginning of Career
By the fall of 1980 Gulshan got his first big break in the film Rocky (1981 film) produced and being directed by sunil dutt to launch his son Sanjay Dutt.Luck was favoring Grower when Anil kapoor's father Surinder Kapoor who had seen him in a play at the acting school offered me a role in a film Hum Paanch (1980 film) starring Naseeruddin Shah, Raj Babbar and the father of all villains Amrish Puri. Well this sort of started a chain reaction for grower when Shabana Azmi saw his acting in Ham Paanch got him a role in Mohan Kumar's Avtaar(1983) starring Rajesh Khanna and Shabana Azmi. Through Surinder Kapoor he was introduced to Rajiv Mehra who offered him a role in Ek Jaan Hain Hum (1983)starring Rajiv Kapoor, Divya Rana, Shammi Kapoor.All these films did well, but his launch pad break as a villain came with Sohni Mahiwal(1984) starring the likes of Sunny Deol, Poonam Dhillon,Zeenat Aman, and the veteran Pran.
Later Career
Grover is famous for his role of villain genres in many movies. He has also starred in some Hollywood movies. His role as villain contributed to the success of Shah Rukh Khan in his action movies, such as Yes Boss, Ram Jaane and Duplicate, all of them starring Juhi Chawla.Off late He has started doing some movies as villain but with a tinge of humor in that like in the movie in Hera Pheri(2000) and Jajantaram Mamantaram (2003) . His experiment of life came with the movie I Am Kalam for which he got the first national film award nomination of his life .He played role of dhabewala, who runs a dhaba right opposite a palace on the highway of Rajasthan. This film game him one of the few sincere roles that he has done during his life time
In 2008, he starred in a Punjabi film for the first time, in Gurdas Mann's Yaariyan. Since then his contribution towards Punjabi cinema has increased. He hosted the PTC music awards and his Punjabi film Virsa was released in 2010, in which he plays a role of a Sikh.
Over the years, He has done 275-plus films in Bollywood, six in Hollywood and one apiece in France and Italy.
He was the celebrity guest of the Grand Prix of Italy held at Monza on 10 September 2006. He recently launched a blog, following the suit of other Bollywood celebrities such as Amitabh Bachchan.
Grover is also the member of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy Of Film And Television, Noida Film City.
He made a guest appearance in X-factor on sony channel flirting around with Shreya Ghoshal in 2011.
Grover was offered the role of a police inspector in Slumdog Millionaire, but turned the offer down saying, "the offer didn’t sound great back then. It’s upsetting now, and that’s how I missed the Oscars.”
Controversy
Gulshan Grower all through his life hasn't been part of any major controversy on or off screen unlike some of his contemporary villains like Shakti Kapoor.The only instance of the minor controversy was in Boom (2003 film) in which he was involved in a steamy scene with the new comer Katrina Kaif.The scenes were deleted from the DVD after Salman Khan pressurized the producers. The producers are now planning to release the uncensored DVDs again.
Personal life
During his early years in the industry, He fell in love with and married Filomina.The marriage lasted for three years.In 2001, He met his second wife, Kashish. The marriage was doomed - it lasted for only a year.Grower cites his ambition for the splits. He has one son Sanjay Grower with Filomina born in 1985. Although he sent his son to boarding school initially, but later he called him back to stay with him.At times he seen along with his son on the shootings of his films.Selected filmography
* I Am Kalam (2011)
* Payback - The Film (2010)
* Crook (2010)
* Knock Out (2010)
* Virsa (2010)
* Mittal v/s Mittal (2010)
* Zor Lagaa Ke...Haiya! (2009)
* Nephilim (2009)
* Prisoners of the Sun (2009)
* Victory (2009)
* Karzzzz (2008)
* Yaariyan (2008)(Punjabi film)
* Jumbo (2008)
* Fool n Final (2007)
* Dhokha (2007)
* Anthony Kaun Hai (2006)
* Eight: The Power of Shani (2006)
* Gangster (2006)
* Dil Maange More (2006)
* Tathastu (2006)
* Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena (2006)
* Family - Ties of Blood (2006)
* Tom, Dick, and Harry (2006)
* Taarzan: The Wonder Car (2004)
* Ek Se Badkhar Ek (2004)
* Boom (2003)
* Fun2shh... Dudes in the 10th Century (2003)
* Lajja (2002)
* Hera Pheri (2000)
* Yes Boss (1997)
* Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat (1996)
* Criminal (1994)
* Mohra (1994)
* Raja Babu (1994)
* Kurbaan (1991)
* Ram Lakhan (1989)
* Khatron Ke Khiladi (1988)
* Veerana (1988)
* Avtaar (1983)
* Sadma (1983)
* Rocky (1981)
* Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1999)
* Insaaf Kaun Karega (1984)
* Sabse Bada Khiladi (1995)
* International Khiladi (1999)
* Yaar Gaddar (1994)
* Hum Paanch (1980) — as Mahavir
Awards and nominations
* 1994: Nominated: Filmfare Best Villain Award for Sir |
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