Suresh Oberoi

Suresh Oberoi is an Indian actor and politician who appeared in Hindi films. He is a recipient of the 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He started his career in radio shows, modelling and later moving to Bollywood, making him a popular character actor in the 1980s and much of the 1990s. He is the father of actor Vivek Oberoi. Oberoi was born to Anand Sarup Oberoi and Kartar Devi on 17 December 1946 in Quetta , then Baluchistan Province of British India .

His father ran a real-estate business. Within a year, after the 1947 partition of India , the family along with four brothers and four sisters moved to India , and later relocated to Hyderabad where his family established a chain of medical stores. Oberoi was active in sports. He was a tennis and swimming champion, later winning the President's Award as a Boy Scout .

After his father's death when he was just out of high school, Oberoi, along with his brother, continued running their pharmacy chain. He has appeared in over 135 films. He recited a few couplets in the song "Dil Mein Phir Aaj Teri" with Anuradha Paudwal for the film Yaadon Ka Mausam (1990). In 2004, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party as a primary member.