Bollywood’s veteran Punjabi and Hindi film actor-cum-director Mangal Dhillon has died after a long battle with cancer.
Mangal was admitted to a Ludhiana hospital before his death. He Dhillon lost his life just a week before his birthday, that is, June 18. Mangal Dhillon was born in a Sikh family in Faridkot district of Punjab. He did his early years of schooling at Panj Graayin Kalan Government School.
He then moved to Uttar Pradesh near his father’s farm. Mangal graduated from Zila Parishad high school in Nighasan, Lakhimpur Kheri district. The late actor also worked in a theatre in Delhi. He completed his post-graduate diploma course in acting in 1980. Mangal first made his debut in the entertainment industry in 1986 with the TV show Katha Sagar.
In the same year, he appeared in another TV show titled Buniyaad. Other shows to his credit include Junoon, Kismat, The Great Maratha, Panther, Ghutan, Sahil, Maulana Azad, Mujrim Hazir, Rishta, Yug, and Noorjahan, among others. Mangal Dhillon has also acted in many feature films. He last appeared in the film Toofan Singh as Lakha in 2017.
