Pankaj Dheer is best known for playing the central role of Karna in the Mahabharata(1988). He was paid the highest among the A-list characters. His pictures are used in textbooks as reference to Karna and the actor also revealed that his statues are worshipped in temples in Karnal and Batar. With BR Chopra, he worked again and was again offered the lead role in the TV Series Kanoon where he worked along with Roopa Ganguly.In 2006 Dheer established a shooting studio, Visage Studioz along with his brother Satluj Dheer at Jogeshwari, Mumbai .In 2010, he opened Abbhinay Acting Academy in Mumbai, with actor Gufi Paintal as the faculty head