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.
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), The Cheetah Girls: One World (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.
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 Age 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.
Filmography Films Year Film Role Notes 1981Chashme Buddoor Music Instructor 1986Karma Tripathi JiNaache Mayuri Advocate Gyaneshwar Prasad 1987Janjaal 1988The Perfect Murder Minister English film1989Paap 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 Mishra2006 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. Shrivastav2008 Good Night Madan Mohan Khullar Short film The Cheetah Girls: One World Swami Ji English film 2009 Coffee House Jarnail Singh2012 Luv Shuv Tey Chicken KhuranaDaar Ji 2014 Tigers Mustafa English film 2016 Pink Kasturi Lal (Landlord)2017 Jolly LLB 2 Zahoor Siddiqui Blue Mountains Guru Ji2018MantoBishan SinghThe 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-law2026Main Vaapas AaungaKitpal
Television Year Show Role 1984 The Far Pavilions Gobind Dass 1984-1985 Hum Log Basesar Ram 1987-1988 Buniyaad Shyamlal 1990-91 Lekhu Lekhu's Father 1993-1994 Chere Pe Chera
Web-Series Year Show Role 2026 Pritam and Pedro Dada Ji
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