Tom Alter
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Tom Alter is an Indian actor of American origin. He is most prominently known for his work in Hindi language Indian cinema. He is also a thespian and a television actor. Alter lives between the Indian city of Mumbai, and the Himalayan hill station of Landour. He was born to American missionaries and studied Hindi and Urdu as a child.
Alter is uniquely talented for his fluency in Hindi and knowledge of Indian culture. He has worked for noted filmmakers like Satyajit Ray in Shatranj Ke Khiladi and Ismail Merchant. In the 1993 film Sardar, Alter portrayed Lord Mountbatten in this biography of Indian leader Sardar Patel that focused on the events surrounding the partition and independence of India. Since then, Alter has played Indian characters in Indian television series. In the long-running Junoon, Alter played the sadistic mob-lord Keshav Kalsi.
