1. Suresh Oberoi was born on 17 December 1946 and is an Indian actor and politician who appeared in Hindi films.
16 Facts About Suresh Oberoi
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Suresh Oberoi is a recipient of the 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Suresh Oberoi started his career in radio shows, modelling and later moving to Bollywood, making him a popular character actor in the 1980s and much of the 1990s.
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Suresh Oberoi was a tennis and swimming champion, later winning the President's Award as a Boy Scout.
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Suresh Oberoi is fluent in Punjabi, Pashto, Hindustani, English, Telugu and Tamil languages.
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Suresh Oberoi did lead roles in films like Ek Baar Phir in 1980, but the film was not commercially successful.
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Suresh Oberoi gained recognition nationally for his supporting role as a Police Inspector Sharma in the 1980 film Phir Wahi Raat, starring Rajesh Khanna in the lead and directed by Danny Denzongpa, which was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful.
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Suresh Oberoi received another nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Ghar Ek Mandir.
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Suresh Oberoi received National Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Mirch Masala in 1985.
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Suresh Oberoi recited a few couplets in the song "Dil Mein Phir Aaj Teri" with Anuradha Paudwal for the film Yaadon Ka Mausam.
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Suresh Oberoi has acted in the television shows Dhadkan and Kashmeer and hosted the second season of the talk show Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai which was made popular by Farooque Shaikh.
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Suresh Oberoi married Yashodara, eight years his junior, in Madras on 1 August 1974.
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The couple has a son, Bollywood actor Vivek Suresh Oberoi, born in 1976 and a daughter Meghna Suresh Oberoi born a few years later.
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Suresh Oberoi's father belonged to the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reformist organization, while his mother was a Nanakpanthi, and he considers himself to be religious, having written a spiritual book, Pilgrim of Life.
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Together with the motivational speaker BK Sister Shivani Verma, Suresh Oberoi is a goodwill ambassador of the World Psychiatric Association.
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Suresh Oberoi is a member of Bharatiya Janta Party since 2004.