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- He has worked and is well known in three continents
including India, the United States and many European
countries in three mediums: film, television and theatre.
- He is noted for his role as Emperor Shah Jahan in Taj
Mahal: An Eternal Love Story.
- He is best known in Europe for playing the pirate
Sandokan in the highly popular TV mini series and for his
role as the villainous Gobinda in the 1983 James Bond film
Octopussy.
- He is very popular in Italy and is fluent in Italian.
- He married four times.
- He is a firm supporter of the freedom struggle in Burma,
and has become an official ambassador of the Burma Campaign
UK.
- He is the only international actor from India to have
originated from Bollywood, worked in Hollywood, and become a
big star in Europe.
- Since 1982 he has been a voting member of the
prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who
are responsible for presenting the Oscar awards.
- He is also a voting member of the Screen Actors Guild.
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