Vinod Nagpal

 ( 1940 Births ) 

Vinod Nagpal is an Indian film, stage and television actor and a trained classical singer, who mainly works in Hindi cinema. He has appeared in movies, mostly as a character actor.

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Career He made his screen debut with Chashme Buddoor (1981). He is best known for his portrayal of Basesar Ram in the first Indian television serial Hum Log (1984). After his big breakthrough with Hum Log, he appeared in many commercially and critically acclaimed films like Naache Mayuri (1986), Bhrashtachar (1989), Paappi Devataa (1995), Dance of the Wind (1997), Tarkieb (2000), Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006), Aaja Nachle (2007), Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (2012), Pink (2016), Blue Mountains (2017), Jolly LLB 2 (2017) and Manto (2018).

Despite Hindi films, Nagpal has appeared in five English language films and in an English television show like The Perfect Murder (1988), The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006), The Last Days of the Raj (2007), (2008), Tigers (2014) and The Far Pavilions (1984).

In 2008, he played the lead role in a short film named Good Night, which was written and directed by Geetika Narang. It won many accolades including Best Short Film Award at the MIAAC Film Festival in United States.

He is also a trained classical singer. He has performed many songs in theatre. In July 2006, he performed marathi theatre songs with his troupe on the occasion of silver jubilee celebration of Natya Shodh Sansthan at Shishir Manch.

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Personal life Vinod Nagpal has been married to Kavita Nagpal. She was a theatre critic, director and writer, she used to write in Hindustan Times and also in Asian Aid occasionally. She had also directed and written plays. She also directed her husband (Vinod) in one of her plays. She died on 23 November 2021.

Nagpal was a very good friend to director Mani Kaul.

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Filmography

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Films

1981	Chashme Buddoor	Music Instructor
1986	Karma	Tripathi Ji
	Naache Mayuri	Advocate Gyaneshwar Prasad
1987	Janjaal
1988	The Perfect Murder	Minister	English film
1989	Paap Ki Sazaa
	Adhuri Zindagi
	Bhrashtachar	Ronak Lal
1990	Police Public	Mantri
1991	Begunaah	Rajan's chacha
1995	Paappi Devataa	Pandu
1997	Dance of the Wind	Mr. Thakkar
2000	Tarkieb	Chandrakant Chaubey
2005	Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh	Advocate Kishori Lal Mishra
2006	The Curse of King Tut's Tomb	Dr. Hassan	English film
	Khosla Ka Ghosla	Sahni Saab
2007	The Last Days of the Raj	Tara Singh	English film
	Chhodon Naa Yaar
	Aaja Nachle	Mr. Shrivastav
2008	Good Night	Madan Mohan Khullar	Short film
		Swami Ji	English film
2009	Coffee House	Jarnail Singh
2012	Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana	Daar Ji
2014	Tigers	Mustafa	English film
2016	Pink	Kasturi Lal (Landlord)
2017	Jolly LLB 2	Zahoor Siddiqui
	Blue Mountains	Guru Ji
2018	Manto	Bishan Singh
	The Great Freedom Fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak	Firozshah Mehta
	Namaste England	Sam's Grandfather
2023	Gulmohar	Baba, Arun's biological father
2023	Sukhee	Sukhee's grand father-in-law

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Television

1984	The Far Pavilions	Gobind Dass
1984-1985	Hum Log	Basesar Ram
1987-1988	Buniyaad	Shyamlal
1993-1994	Chere Pe Chera

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