Word: mogambo
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DIED. AMRISH PURI, 72, Bollywood's most famous bad guy; of a brain hemorrhage; in Bombay. In more than 200 films he frightened and delighted generations of Indian children with his shaved-headed villains, notably the menacing Mogambo in the 1987 Hindi film Mr. India. He was best known to U.S. audiences as Mola Ram, the chief thug in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
...until age 40 with 1971's Reshma Aur Shera, Puri enjoyed a prolific film career, acting in more than 200 movies. His success in foreign features such as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gandhi brought him global recog-nition, while his role as devious gang leader Mogambo in 1987's Mr. India made him a cult figure at home...