In the 1980s, he rose to prominence for his comeback performance as Jawaharlal Nehru in Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning film Gandhi, which brought him a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and reignited his interest in acting.
He has since appeared in numerous British and American feature films and television programmes, with roles ranging from Chattar Lal in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Amit Rao in A Passage to India, Papa Hussein in My Beautiful Laundrette, patriarch Jay in Mississippi Masala and Dhalsim in Street Fighter: The Movie.
[4] He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 and started working in British television and repertory theatre.
His work in 1984 included major roles in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and David Lean's A Passage to India.
[citation needed] Seth's film credits in the 1990s included roles in Not Without My Daughter (1991), Mississippi Masala (1991), Street Fighter (1994), and Harish Saluja's The Journey (1997).
[citation needed] In 2001, Seth appeared in Monsoon Wedding and he has continued working steadily in British and American films.