K. K. Raina

Biography:

K. K. Raina is an award-winning screenwriter and character actor from India. He is best known for his roles as Juror #8 in the 1986 film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla, a remake of 12 Angry Men, as Shivnath, the brother of Sunny Deol’s character in Ghatak, and as Byomkesh Bakshi’s associate Ajit Kumar Banerji in the 1993 Doordarshan detective series Byomkesh Bakshi. For the Rajkumar Santoshi movie China Gate, Raina received the 1998 Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue.

In Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Raina was born into a Kashmiri family. Raina graduated from the National School of Drama in 1976. In the 1992 Sony LIV series Scam, he played Manohar J. Pherwani.