Cyrus Brocha, when only 12, acted in his first Hindi film Jalwa with Pankaj Parashar and starred alongside Naseeruddin Shah.
He became the first director to cast a then-art film actor Naseeruddin Shah in a commercial Bollywood film, Jalwa (1987) (a remake of Beverly Hills Cop) and in his 1989 film, ChaalBaaz (a remake of Seeta Aur Geeta) got lead actress Sridevi, the Filmfare Best Actress Award.
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He gained acclaim and popularity the next year with the television series Karamchand (1985) starring Pankaj Kapoor as lead detective Karamchand with Sushmita Mukherjee as assistant Kitti and Sanjay Gupta as the assistant director.
Pankaj Udhas | Pankaj Kapur | Pankaj Sharma | Pankaj Mishra | Pankaj Charan Das | Deepak Parashar | Rick Parashar | Parashar | Pankaj Patel | Pankaj Parashar |
ChaalBaaz, a 1989 Bollywood film directed by Pankaj Parashar