SUPER ACTORS: Prem Nath

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Prem Nath

Premnath Malhotra (21 November 1926 – 3 November 1992) was an actor in Indian films.Born in Peshawar in a punjabi khatri family, his family moved to Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh after partition, he then had moved to Bombay.

He married the actress Bina Rai with whom he fathered actor Prem Krishen and Kailash Nath (Monty). They are also the grandparents of actress Akanksha Malhotra and director Siddharth Malhotra. His sister Krishna married Raj Kapoor and his brothers Rajindernath and Narendranath were also actors mostly in comic and supporting roles. He was also a family friend of the actress Asha Parekh. He died of a heart attack in 1992 at the age of sixty six