Trivia

Brother of Bollywood actor Kanwarjeet Paintal.

Uncle of Bollywood actor Hiten Paintal.

Wife Rekha passed away at the age of 40 in 1993. They have a son named Harry Paintal.

Son is actor Harry Paintal.

Initially trained as an engineer, he would go on to follow his younger brother (who had been trained at the Film and Television Institute of India) into acting.

N 2010 he was appointed head of facility at the Abbhinnay Acting Academy in Mumbai, a school established by his Mahabharata co-star Pankaj Dheer.

Indeed, he is so associated with his Shakuni character in India that Paintal presented a political discussion show on the news channel Sahara Samay in the character of Shakuni.

Paintal has recently directed the movie, Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu which sketches the life of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, a 16th-century devotee of Krishna who is recognized as an incarnation of the god by followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.