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Television prima Pankaj Dheer, known for playing Karna successful B.R. Chopra's "Mahabharat" and king Shivdutt successful phantasy play "Chandrakanta", has died astatine the property of 68 pursuing a conflict with cancer.
"He passed distant owed to crab this morning. He had been successful and retired of infirmary successful the past months," shaper and person Ashoke Pandit told PTI.
The cremation volition beryllium held aboriginal successful the day.
Dheer, who hailed from Punjab, started retired arsenic an histrion successful the 1980s, featuring successful insignificant roles successful galore movies.
His large interruption came successful 1988 erstwhile helium was formed arsenic Karna successful the tiny surface adaptation of Hindu epic "Mahabharata". After that, his popularity peaked and helium starred successful galore movies specified arsenic "Sadak", "Sanam Bewafa" and "Aashik Awara".
From 1994 to 1996, Dheer starred successful TV bid "Chandrakanta", loosely based connected writer Devaki Nandan Khatri's 1888 caller of the aforesaid name. He essayed the fashionable relation of Shivdutt, the king of fictional kingdom of Chunargarh.
Some of his notable movies besides see Bobby Deol's "Soldier", Shah Rukh Khan's "Baadshah", Akshay Kumar's "Andaz", and Ajay Devgn's "Zameen" and "Tarzan'.
In the precocious 2000s, Dheer appeared successful galore regular soaps "Teen Bahuraaniyaan", "Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat" and "Sasural Simar Ka".
Dheer is survived by woman Anita Dheer and lad Nikitin Dheer, who is besides an actor.
