{"id":5119,"date":"2016-04-20T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T02:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:58:34","slug":"purab-kohli-actor-typewriter-bollywood-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5119","title":{"rendered":"Why Purab Kohli is Bollywood\u2019s Most Overlooked Dependable Performer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typewriter<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/badla-review-a-safe-crime-thriller-suffering-from-a-kahaani-hangover\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sujoy Ghosh\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> new horror-mystery series which premiered on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/leila-review-netflix-huma-quereshi-praayag-akbar-deepa-mehta\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Netflix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last Friday, Purab Kohli plays Ravi, a cop and a single father. He shares a warm relationship with his school-going daughter, Sameera \u2013 one of the show\u2019s young protagonists. There\u2019s a sweet exchange between the two where he expresses his concern for Sameera\u2019s constant yearning to connect with her late mother. \u201cKoi bhoot woot nahin hote,\u201d he tells her, to which she promptly replies, \u201cWoh hote hain,\u201d and goes on to explain her reasons for believing so. Kohli\u2019s understanding and handling of the scene is harmonious; he is neither patronising his young costar nor is he getting waylaid by her precociousness. The specks of grey in his beard only add to the 40-year-old actor&#8217;s warm and patient persona.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scene had me reminiscing about Kohli\u2019s debut at the age of 19 in the hit TV series, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hip Hip Hurray<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that I watched diligently during my growing-up years. The much adored teen show began airing on Zee back in 1998. A fresh-faced Kohli played Mazhar, a studious 12th grader, raised by a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/only-child-lonelines-siblings-family-mother-pets\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">single mother.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mazhar\u2019s mom\u2019s (a glorious Seema Pahwa) nuggets of wisdom and the mother-son camaraderie was one of the show\u2019s many highlights. The series introduced a flurry of talented, young actors akin to Hollywood\u2019s Brat Pack of the &#8217;80s and several <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hip Hip Hurray <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alumni went on to have flourishing careers in showbiz. Kohli is a prominent one among them. It\u2019s also a testament to how far the VJ-actor has come from his TV heartthrob days to being a dependable performer in Bollywood.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The actor made his film debut with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bas Yun Hi <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2003)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an offbeat indie where he played a cheeky mischief-maker. Straight off his Channel V days, the boyish charm and enthusiasm helped but weren\u2019t sufficient to mask his greenhorn status. Some minor roles later, it was with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Brother&#8230; Nikhil<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2005) that the actor&#8217;s competence shone through. The film is a heartfelt story of an HIV positive man and his sister\u2019s struggle for his rights and dignity. Kohli appears as Nikhil\u2019s gay lover, Nigel, and conveys the quiet fortitude of a man fighting against fate and for the legitimacy of his relationship with immense sincerity. Made in a pre-377 India, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Brother\u2026 Nikhil <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was among the earliest Hindi films that offered a empathetic take on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/10-years-of-dostana-what-it-meant-for-an-india-where-homosexuality-was-still-a-crime\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> homosexuality.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Over a decade later, Kohli\u2019s resum\u00e9 is every bit eclectic. It has mainstream movies, experimental outings, and collaborations with some enviable names cutting across television, films, and the web. He even pops up in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3ThxcRqkzLs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">commercials<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=itAUcoIOw_s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quizmaster<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, reality TV contestant, and even a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OToiXeYWZ8M\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">travel show host<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1564291394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52774\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>In <i>Typewriter<\/i>, Sujoy Ghosh\u2019s new horror-mystery series which premiered on Netflix last Friday, Purab Kohli plays Ravi, a cop and a single father.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kohli hasn\u2019t had the most conventional film career, rarely playing the lead, but the actor never confined himself to a comfort zone. After <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woh Lamhe<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2006), his first major <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/tanushree-dutta-nana-patekar-sexual-harassment-denial\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bollywood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> release, he didn\u2019t stay pigeonholed in the joke-cracking, filmi friend template. The next year he was playing a deranged villain in another Bhatt production, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awarapan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Even in films where he is part of an ensemble, Kohli remains a gracious performer who sets the stage for his colleagues to excel. There\u2019s no better evidence of that than in Farhan Akhtar\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/rock-on-10th-anniversary-magik\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rock On<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2008)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In what is his most popular role till date, the actor played KD, a flamboyant but cool-headed drummer buffering his rock band\u2019s mercurial leads. Kohli understands the importance of control in his portrayal of a man with thwarted dreams who is trying to make the most of his second chance. So when KD finally puts his foot down about not letting petty squabbles ruin their band, his measured outburst feels like a genuine triumph.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My personal favourite Kohli performance is however in another film. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Airlift <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2016), the actor broke out of his urban lad image when he reunited with his <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bas Yun Hi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> director Raja Krishna Menon for an excellent supporting role. He plays Ibrahim, a distressed store employee searching for his missing bride in war-ravaged Kuwait; they had been married only eight days. Kohli conveys the uncertainty of the circumstances and Ibrahim\u2019s feelings toward a wife he doesn\u2019t really know with great candour and clarity. As he joins the protagonist\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/akshay-kumar-bollywood-birthday-gold\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Akshay Kumar)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> crusade for evacuating the stranded Indians, his reserved but committed character becomes the perfect foil for the enterprising hero.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Kohli hasn\u2019t had the most conventional film career, rarely playing the lead, but the actor never confined himself to a comfort zone.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then there was last year, where Kohli featured as one of the male leads in Voot\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s Not That Simple<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 a web series about modern relationships headlined by Swara Bhaskar. His sardonic Angad is a far cry from his performance as Kifayat in Nandita Das\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/culture\/manto-the-seer-who-knew-every-prostitute-and-pimp-in-town\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manto<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2018). <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The biopic opens with the enactment of the writer\u2019s story <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Das Rupay.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> As the car driver enjoying the company of an underage escort, Kohli gladly takes a backseat while its little heroine\u2019s charismatic presence fills up the screen. It is this reliability that Kohli brings to the table. And the actor\u2019s eagerness to work without obsessing over billing, screen time or stardom that makes him stand out, even today. It has resulted in performances in various capacities like the lead in festival favourite <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2013), the parallel lead in TV drama <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">POW &#8211; Bandi Yuddh Ke<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or as a secondary character in the Lana and Lilly Wachowskis\u2019 global drama <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sense8<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Netflix. Throughout his career, Kohli after all, seems to consciously embody the words that Angad says in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s Not That Simple<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cKuch naya try karo.\u201d The thing is, he has gotten pretty good at doing that.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1998, Purab Kohli debuted with Hip Hip Hurray, where he played a studious 12th grader raised by a single mother. Last week in Typewriter, he essays a single parent to a school-going student. 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