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Praveen Kumar Sobti, who played the role of Bheem in BR Chopra’s most popular Mahabharat TV serial, has died at the age of 74, following a massive cardiac arrest, media reports said.
Praveen Kumar was an athlete-turned-actor and had won an Asian Games gold medal.
He was an Indian hammer and discus thrower, film actor, politician, and soldier with the Border Security Force. As an athlete he won four medals at the Asian Games, including two gold medals, won a silver medal in the Commonwealth Games and competed in two Olympics.
He acted in several Bollywood films and one of his most famous roles was in the Amitabh Bachchan-starrer film Shehansah. He acted in more than 50 Hindi films.
[Main picture of Praveen Kumar Sobti in a 1974 picture/Wikipedia]
