Asrani Movies and Career Information

Govardhan Asrani (Hindi: गोवरधन असराणी, born 1 January 1941 in Jaipur, India), popularly known simply as Asrani, is an actor in Indian films whose Bollywood career has spanned over 35 years.His wife 'Manju Bansal' is also an actress. He was born to a middle class Sindhi family with not much acting blood. His father migrated to Jaipur and opened a shop selling carpets. He has a sister and three brothers- two younger and one elder. Asrani was highly uninterested in business and very weak in Mathematics. He completed his matriculation from Xaviers School and did his graduation from Rajasthan College, Jaipur. He simultaneously worked as a voice artise on All India Radio, Jaipur, to pay for his education. His ultimate aim was to become an actor. He began to learn acting from Acting Guru- Sahitya Kalbhai Thakkar from 1960 to 1962. In 1962- he travelled to Bombay (Now Mumbai) and began to seek opportunities to act- in 1963- Hrishikesh Mukherjee advised him to learn acting professionally. In 1964 Asrani joined the Film Institute in Poona and finished his course in 1966. He impressed many others and in 1967 he made his acting break in a Gujrati movie opposite budding actress Waheeda (Not