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
- 2024 · The Umesh Chronicles as
- 2023 · Footprints on Water as Raghu
- 2023 · Tooth Pari: When Love Bites as
- 2022 · Mukhbir: The Story of a Spy as Ramkishore Negi
- 2022 · Max, Min and Meowzaki as Ramesh Mahadevan
- 2021 · India Sweets and Spices as Ranjit Kapur
- 2021 · Bell Bottom as Santook
- 2019 · Good Newwz as Dr. Anand Joshi
- 2019 · Axone as Guest Appearance
- 2019 · Kabir Singh as College Dean
- 2019 · Delhi Crime as Kumar Vijay
- 2018 · 2.0 as Home Minister
- 2018 · Love Sonia as Shiva
- 2018 · Aiyaary as Retd. Colonel Mukesh Kapoor
- 2017 · Maj Rati Keteki as Priyendu Hazarika
- 2017 · What Will People Say as Mirza
- 2017 · Star Trek: Discovery as Aditya Sahil
- 2017 · Crash Test Aglae as Shankar
- 2017 · Commando 2 - The Black Money Trail as Vicky Chadda
- 2016 · Force 2 as Brijesh Yadav
- 2016 · Hotel Salvation as Rajiv
- 2016 · Feast of Varanasi as Arjun
- 2015 · Angry Indian Goddesses as Police Superintendent
- 2015 · Parched as Mystic Lover
- 2015 · Main Aur Charles as Amod Kanth
- 2015 · Comedy Nights Bachao as Self
- 2015 · Yatchan as Selvam/Vetri
- 2015 · Umrika as Agent de l’Immigration
- 2014 · Nanak Shah Fakir as Rai Bullar
- 2013 · Comedy Nights with Kapil as Self
- 2013 · The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Mustafa Fazil
- 2013 · Lootera as K. N. Singh
- 2012 · Life of Pi as Santosh Patel
- 2012 · English Vinglish as Satish Godbole
- 2012 · Agent Vinod as Colonel
- 2011 · Gangor as Upin
- 2010 · Ishqiya as Vidyadhar Verma
- 2009 · Kaminey as Flight Purser
- 2003 · Calendar Girls as Jem's Friend 1
- Future · Ram Part I as Chithambaravel
- 2023 · Otta as
- 2023 · Sergeant as Haider Ali
- 2023 · Dr. Bezbaruah 2 as Dr. Bezbaruah
- 2023 · A Knock on the Door as Hari
- 2022 · The Storyteller as
- 2022 · Child of Empire as Ishar Das Arora
- 2020 · Marichjhapi as
- 2020 · Pareeksha as Buchchi Paswan
- 2020 · Lord of the Orphans as Father
- 2020 · Unsaid as Rudra
- 2019 · Lorni - The Flaneur as Shem
- 2019 · The Wayfarers as Lakhua
- 2019 · Nirvana Inn as Jogiraj
- 2019 · The Illegal as Papa
- 2019 · MEAL as Father
- 2019 · Bombairiya as Pandya
- 2018 · Maati as Jamil
- 2018 · Ahare Mon as Purnendu Pahari
- 2018 · Bioscopewala as Robi Basu
- 2017 · Nawal the Jewel as
- 2017 · Dobaara: See Your Evil as Alex Merchant
- 2017 · Mantra as Man from Jharkhand
- 2017 · Raag as
- 2016 · Chutney as Viriji
- 2016 · The Violin Player as The Stranger
- 2015 · Har Har Byomkesh as Zamindar
- 2015 · Kothanodi: The River of Fables as Devinath
- 2015 · Unfreedom as Devraj Singh
- 2014 · Zed Plus as Aslam Puncturewala
- 2014 · Tigers as Bilal
- 2014 · Rodor Sithi as
- 2014 · Sringkhal as
- 2014 · Sunrise as Joshi
- 2014 · The Xposé as Rajan
- 2013 · Lessons in Forgetting as Jak
- 2004 · Iti Srikanta as Srikanta
- 2003 · In Othello as
- Future · Golmaal Gharana as Mr. Khanna
- Future · Riding on the Moon Boat as
- Future · Blue 52 as