Murli Sharma is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Bollywood, Tollywood, and television. He is widely known for portraying a cop on screen and is considered one of the finest character artistes of his generation across the country. Sharma has starred in over sixty feature films, including Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and Malayalam cinema. Sharma gained wide recognition in televisi...Murli Sharma is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Bollywood, Tollywood, and television. He is widely known for portraying a cop on screen and is considered one of the finest character artistes of his generation across the country. Sharma has starred in over sixty feature films, including Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and Malayalam cinema. Sharma gained wide recognition in television with Doordarshan's Paltan in which he plays the lead role of Col. R.S. Sajwan. Sharma has appeared in various soap operas such as Guns and Roses, Siddanth, Laagi Tujhse Lagan, Mahayagya, Viraasat, Zindhagi Teri Meri Kahani, Rishtey, Humne lee hain shapath, and Rangeela Ratan Sisodia.
In contemporary cinema, he has appeared in critically and commercially successful films such as Maqbool (2003), Main Hoon Na (2004), Mangal Pandey: The Rising (2005), Apaharan (2005), Black Friday (2007), Golmaal Returns (2008), Chal Chala Chal (2009), Dabangg (2010), Golmaal 3 (2010), OMG: Oh My God! (2012), Chakravyuh (2012), Baby (2015), Badlapur (2015), Dharam Sankat Mein (2015), ABCD 2 (2015), and Dilwale (2015). Sharma has appeared in Telugu super hits such as Athidi (2007), for which he received the state Nandi Award for Best Villain, Kantri (2008), Oosaravelli (2011), Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum (2012), Yevadu (2013), Gopala Gopala (2015), and Bhale Bhale Magadivoy (2015).
Murli Sharma was born in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. He completed his bachelor's degree, and studied acting at the Roshan Taneja Acting School in Mumbai. He is married to actress Ashwini Kalsekar and lives in Mumbai, and Hyderabad. He has two brothers who reside in Mumbai and Bangalore. He is avid reader. He is fluent in 5 Indian languages including Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and Gujarati.
Murli Sharma achieved widespread recognition for playing the role of Captain Khan in the 2004 Bollywood superhit movie Main Hoon Na alongside Shahrukh Khan. By 2007, he further established himself by playing important roles in Dhol, Dhamaal, Black Friday in Hindi and Athithi, Kanthri in Telugu. He received a Nandi Award for his dual role of Kaiser/Ajay Shastri in Athithi in 2007. He also made a special appearance in 2008 Bollywood flick Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na. He received acclaim for his roles in Golmaal Returns and Sunday. In 2009, he worked with R. Madhavan on 13B, a Tamil/Hindi/Telugu psychological thriller, in which he played a cop. He played supporting roles in big ticket flicks like Dabangg, Tees Maar Khan and Golmaal 3 in Hindi. 2011 proved to be a memorable year for Murli Sharma as he teamed up yet again with Rohit Shetty for Singham starring Ajay Devgn.
