
Adil Hussain
Adil Hussain is an Indian actor who has worked in Indian cinema, including art house cinema and mainstream Bollywood, as well as international cinema, in films such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi (both 2012). He received National Film Awards (Special Jury) at the 2017 National Film Awards for Hotel Salvation and Maj Rati Keteki. He has starred in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Norwegian and French films. Born in Goalpara, Assam in 1963, where his father was the headmaster of a high secondary school, Hussain was the youngest of seven children. In an interview he described his multiethnic background, as his maternal grandfather was Iraqi while his maternal grandmother had Assamese, English and Italian roots. Hussain acted in school plays. He left home at age 18 to study philosophy at B. Borooah College, Guwahati, he started acting in college plays and performing as a stand-up comedian. He also mimicked popular Bollywood actors in between the performances of a local stand-up comedian group, the Bhaya Mama Group. He worked as a stand-up comedian for six years, joined a mobile theatre and also did some local cinema, before moving to Delhi, where he studied at National School of Drama (1990–1993). He also studied at the Drama Studio London on a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship. After his return to India in 1994, Hussain joined the mobile 'Hengul Theater' in Assam, where he worked for three years, before moving to Delhi. He started his stage career in Delhi, though he continued training under Khalid Tyabji. After Tyabji he trained with Swapan Bose at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry, before starting training with Dilip Shankar in Delhi. As an actor, he first received acclaim in Othello: A Play in Black and White (1999), which was awarded the Edinburgh Fringe First, and later Goodbye Desdemona also directed by Roysten Abel. He remained the artistic director and Trainer of the Society for Artists and Performers in Hampi from 2004 to 2007, and a visiting faculty at Royal Conservatory of Performing Arts, The Hague. He is also a visiting faculty at his alma mater, the National School of Drama. In 2004, he made his Bengali film debut along with Soha Ali Khan in the period drama Iti Srikanta, where he played the lead role. On television, he appeared in the lead role, in the detective series Jasoos Vijay (2002–2003), produced by BBC World Service Trust. Though he had appeared in a few Assamese films, did a small roles in Vishal Bhardwaj's Kaminey and Sona Jain's For Real, it was his role in Abhishek Chaubey's Ishqiya (2010) that got him attention in Bollywood, though his first major role was in Saif Ali Khan-Kareena Kapoor Khan starrer Agent Vinod released in early 2012. In the same year, he appeared in Italian director Italo Spinelli's Gangor, Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Ang Lee's Life of Pi. He next appeared alongside Sridevi in the comedy drama English Vinglish (2012), and also received critical acclaim for his role in Lessons in Forgetting at the New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest. After these he acted in Aditya Bhattacharya's Bombay Most Wanted and Partho Sen-Gupta's Sunrise. ... Source: Article "Adil Hussain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- 2024 · Ulajh as Dhanraj Bhatia
- 2023 · Otta as
- 2023 · Sergeant as Haider Ali
- 2023 · Footprints on Water as Raghu
- 2022 · The Storyteller as Ratan Garodia
- 2020 · Pareeksha as Buchchi Paswan
- 2019 · Good Newwz as Dr. Anand Joshi
- 2019 · Lorni - The Flaneur as Shem
- 2019 · Kabir Singh as College Dean
- 2019 · Bombairiya as Pandya
- 2018 · 2.0 as Home Minister
- 2018 · Maati as Jamil
- 2018 · Bioscopewala as Robi Basu
- 2018 · Aiyaary as Retd. Colonel Mukesh Kapoor
- 2017 · Star Trek: Discovery as Aditya Sahil
- 2017 · Nawal the Jewel as
- 2017 · Crash Test Aglae as Shankar
- 2017 · Mantra as Man from Jharkhand
- 2017 · Commando 2 - The Black Money Trail as Vicky Chadda
- 2016 · Chutney as Viriji
- 2016 · Force 2 as Brijesh Yadav
- 2016 · The Violin Player as The Stranger
- 2016 · Hotel Salvation as Rajiv
- 2015 · Har Har Byomkesh as Zamindar
- 2015 · Parched as Mystic Lover
- 2015 · Kothanodi: The River of Fables as Devinath
- 2015 · Comedy Nights Bachao as Self
- 2015 · Yatchan as Selvam/Vetri
- 2015 · Unfreedom as Devraj Singh
- 2014 · Zed Plus as Aslam Puncturewala
- 2014 · Sunrise as Joshi
- 2014 · The Xposé as Rajan
- 2013 · Comedy Nights with Kapil as Self
- 2013 · Lessons in Forgetting as Jak
- 2012 · Life of Pi as Santosh Patel
- 2012 · English Vinglish as Satish Godbole
- 2012 · Agent Vinod as Colonel
- Future · The Confession as
- 2010 · Ishqiya as Vidyadhar Verma
- 2009 · Kaminey as Flight Purser
- Future · Ram Part I as Chithambaravel
- 2025 · Secret of a Mountain Serpent as Manik Guho
- 2025 · Mercy as
- 2024 · The Umesh Chronicles as
- 2023 · Ek Betuke Aadmi Ki Afrah Raatein as
- 2023 · Tooth Pari: When Love Bites as
- 2023 · Dr. Bezbaruah 2 as Dr. Bezbaruah
- 2023 · A Knock on the Door as Hari
- 2022 · Mukhbir: The Story of a Spy as Ramkishore Negi
- 2022 · Max, Min and Meowzaki as Ramesh Mahadevan
- 2022 · Child of Empire as Ishar Das Arora
- 2021 · India Sweets and Spices as Ranjit Kapur
- 2021 · Bell Bottom as Santook
- 2021 · The Illegal as Papa
- 2020 · Marichjhapi as
- 2020 · Lord of the Orphans as Father
- 2020 · Abyakto as Rudra
- 2019 · The Wayfarers as Lakhua
- 2019 · Nirvana Inn as Jogiraj
- 2019 · Axone as Guest Appearance
- 2019 · MEAL as Father
- 2019 · Delhi Crime as Kumar Vijay
- 2018 · Love Sonia as Shiva
- 2018 · Ahare Mon as Purnendu Pahari
- 2017 · Maj Rati Keteki as Priyendu Hazarika
- 2017 · What Will People Say as Mirza
- 2017 · Raag as
- 2015 · Angry Indian Goddesses as Police Superintendent
- 2015 · Umrika as Agent de l’Immigration
- 2014 · Tigers as Bilal
- 2014 · Rodor Sithi as
- 2014 · Sringkhal as
- Future · Blue 52 as
- 2014 · Nanak Shah Fakir as Rai Bullar
- 2013 · The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Mustafa Fazil
- Future · Golmaal Gharana as Mr. Khanna
- 2017 · Dobaara: See Your Evil as Alex Merchant
- 2016 · Feast of Varanasi as Arjun
- 2015 · Main Aur Charles as Amod Kanth
- 2013 · Lootera as K. N. Singh
- 2011 · Gangor as Upin
- 2004 · Iti Srikanta as Srikanta
- Future · Riding on the Moon Boat as
- 2003 · Calendar Girls as Jem's Friend 1
- 2003 · In Othello as