Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor, who worked in Hindi and Punjabi films. He is better known for his role as antagonist Shakaal in Shaan (1980)inspired by the character of Blofeld from James Bond movies.Starting with Delhi-based theatre group Yatrik in the 1960s, he moved to films with Sai Paranjpye’s Jadu Ka Shankh in 1974, he worked in several parallel cinema films, before working in mainstream Bollywood. He later appeared in Mahesh Bhatt’s classic, Arth (1982), Ek Chadar Maili Si (1986), and in all three parts of Deepa Mehta’s Elements trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005).After nearly two decades he was seen on the theatre stage in Padatik Theatre, Kolkata’s production, Atmakatha, directed by Vinay Sharma.