 He made his film debut in Basu Chatterjee's "Khatta Meetha", following which he played prominent parts in Bollywood comedy classics such as Basu Chatterjee's "Baton Baton Mein" (1979) and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's "Khubsoorat" (1980).Thereafter, he moved to the United States in the early 1980s.He wrote the screenplay and acted in "Sam & Me" (directed by Deepa Mehta), which won an honorable mention at Cannes in 1991.