Girish Karnad was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. His film career continued throughout the eighties and the early 2000s in productions like the foreign "Man Pasand" (1980) with Dev Anand, "Aparupa" (1982) and "Umbartha" (1982). He also appeared in the Manjunath drama "Swamy" (1987) and the dramatic period piece "Hey! Ram" (2000) with Shah Rukh Khan. Recently, he continued to act in "Dor" (2006), "Iqbal" (2006) with Kapil Dev and the drama "8x10 Tasveer" (2009) with Akshay Kumar. He also appeared in the John Abraham drama "Aashayein" (2010) and "Chandra" (2012) with Shriya Saran. Most recently, Karnad acted in the Salman Khan foreign "Ek Tha Tiger" (2012).