K. K. Raina is an Indian film, television and theatre character actor and award-winning script writer,[1] who is best known for his roles as Juror #8 in the 1986 film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla,[2] a remake of 12 Angry Men, and Byomkesh Bakshi's associate Ajit Kumar Banerji in the 1993 Doordarshan detective series Byomkesh Bakshi.
[3] Raina won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue in 1998 for the Rajkumar Santoshi film China Gate.
[4] Raina was born in a Kashmiri family in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
[5] Raina is an alumnus of the National School of Drama, graduating college in 1976.
[6] He portrayed Manohar J. Pherwani in the Sony LIV series Scam 1992.