Apart from the performance of Amrish Puri, who was counted among the most powerful villains of Bollywood, people were very convinced of his discipline. This discipline was learned by Amrish in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). In the link of our 100 stories remembering the 100 -year journey of the Sangh, this time Amrish Puri. He himself told the story that when he stayed in the Sangh, what were his parts and how the Sangh taught him the lesson of discipline.
Amrish Puri played the bad character as much as he has been playing on the film screen throughout his life, in the last days he did the opposite character. People liked him a lot in those characters due to his tremendous acting. People have not forgotten Babuji of ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’. But the people of the film world consider Amrish Puri more for two things.
One, laying the foundation of institutions to help the small workers of the film world. And second, their discipline. The special thing is that Amrish Puri has given all the credit for this habit of discipline to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh i.e. RSS. Until he did not tell, no one knew that before coming to the acting world, he had worked in the Sangh in Delhi for many years.
Amrish Puri has mentioned the initial struggle of life in his autobiography ‘The Act of Life’. He explains how his father was strongly against working in films due to one of his cousins, well -known singer and actor KL Sehgal. Before him, both his brothers Chaman Puri and Madan Puri started working in films.
When Madan Puri left his job from Kolkata and went to Mumbai, his father became very angry. It is also said that like KL Sehgal died at the age of 42 due to the habit of drinking alcohol, you will also die. However, nobody listened and Amrish Puri also reached Mumbai with a wish to become a hero. But everyone rejected them by saying that your face does not look like a hero. Then Amrish Puri joined the theater in Delhi itself. Later, he joined the Prithvi Theater in Mumbai and started working in an insurance company to run the house.
Then he got the role of blind in a Marathi film and Rahmat Khan’s role in Sunil Dutt’s film ‘Reshma Aur Shera’ came to his part. He got his first Bollywood film at the age of 39 and got a chance in the 1980 film ‘Hum Paanch’ as the main villain for the first time. Since then, his career car caught such a speed that he did not break any break for decades. But when he was fifteen-sixteen years old during his stay in Delhi, he joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
During an interview with Panchajanya, he told, ‘I was 15-16 years old when I started going to the Sangh branch. After a one -hour branch, he used to go for contact with the families of volunteers. The work of the branch was so ruming that I was given the responsibility of the head teacher of the branch. I believe that the rites I found in the branch at that time contributed significantly in creating my personality and character. Today I am in the film industry, where the fall is the highest. Despite this, my character is pure, so it is only because of the rites of the Sangh. When more connected with plays, contact with the Sangh was reduced but the Sangh rites did not go from life. This interview was taken by Kishore Makwana during the Indus Darshan 2001 in Leh.
Amrish Puri opened the secret of his closeness from the Sangh from journalists during this period. He told how the work of training in the branch was on his responsibility as a head teacher. And this disciplined life made him disciplined like a soldier, only then he never used to reach any set.
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