His next venture Baabarr had Mithun and Om Puri in lead roles followed by Mithun Chakraborty's home production Enemmy with an ensemble cast of Mithun Chakraborty, Sunil Shetty, Mahakshay Chakraborty, Kay Kay Menon and Zakir Hussain.
He passed successfully from the NSD with classmates like Naseeruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Om Puri etc.
The main street running through the centre of Delph was used in some of the external shots of the 2001 feature film The Parole Officer, starring Steve Coogan, Om Puri and Jenny Agutter.
Here he was associated with training many well-known film and theatre actors and directors including Vijaya Mehta, Om Shivpuri, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Manohar Singh, Uttara Baokar, Jyoti Subhash, Suhas Joshi, B. Jayashree, Jayadev and Rohini Hattangadi .
Om Puri role is said to be inspired from Kobad Ghandy in Bollywood film Chakravyuh.
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Besides from Akshay Kumar, the film also features actor Om Puri and cricketer Harbhajan Singh.
Originally titled as Khatta Meetha, the story of the film is adapted from the Malayalam film Punjabi House (1998), with a tagline of "Love meets confusion meets love." The film has Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor in their third film together along with actors, Neha Dhupia, Sunil Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Shakti Kapoor, Om Puri and Anupam Kher.
Amrita (Juhi Babbar) is the adopted daughter of Yashwant Raj Mankotia (Om Puri).