Actor Gulshan Grover is creating history. On May 29, the New York City International Film Festival is going to honour Gulshan Grover for being the first Bollywood actor to have made transition to Hollywood, opening doors for others and bringing the two film industries together.ALSO READ: Playing villain extremely challenging: Gulshan Grover In their invitation letter to Grover, Roberto Rizzo, the founder and CEO of the New York City International Film Festival, credited Grover for having open doors for other Indian actors to make a foray in Hollywood films.
Grover has acted in Desperate Endeavours, which also fetched him the Best Actor Award in the film directed by French-Algerian Sam Khassa. Gulshan played a spiritual leader Dada Bhagwan, the man who went to America in the 1970s and enlightened the lives of the Indians there as well as the Americans, in the film. He has also acted with
Salma Hayek in the movie Driver. Gulshan has also starred in other Hollywood productions like
Prisoners of the Sun,
Nephilim, British picture
Honour Killing and an Indo-French collaboration titled
I am Kalam.
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