Biography:

Raj Babbar is a Hindi and Punjabi film actor since 1977 and politician belonging to Indian National Congress party and current Member of Parliament from Firozabad.

Babbar was born in Tundla, Uttar Pradesh on 23 June 1952. He is an alumnus of the 1975 batch of National School of Drama and graduated from Agra College.[citation needed]

He trained in the Method school of acting at NSD, which is involved in Street Theatre. After his training in New Delhi he moved to Mumbai and started his film career with Reena Roy, one of the well known actresses of that time. He gained fame for the movie 'Insaaf Ka Taraazu', in which his was a portrayal of a rapist, who assaults the heroine and later his sister, and in the end, gets shot for his deeds.

He became a consistent feature of the B. R. Chopra banner; Nikaah with Deepak Parashar and Salma Agha, Aaj Ki Aawaz with Smita Patil, with whom he married, despite being married with two children at the time.

He also achieved success in Punjabi cinema as he gave remarkable performances in Chann Pardesi (1980) and Long Da Lishkara (1986) - two art house movies with serious themes treated in a realistic manner and this was an innovation for Punjabi films field. He also acted in the hit Punjabi films Aasra Pyar Da (1983), Marhi Da Diva (1989), Mahaul Theek Hai (1999), Shaheed Uddham Singh (2000), Yaaran Naal Baharan (2005), and Ek Jind Ek Jaan (2006).

He also acted in Television and appeared in the introductory episode of the famous Indian TV series Mahabharat, as king Bharat.

He joined Indian National Congress and successively elected for fourth term as Member of Parliament and he won his fourth term by defeating Dimple Yadav wife of Akhilesh Yadav and daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav.

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