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Adil Hussain Age: 61

Actor | Producer

    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 Fundamental

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Fullname:

Adil Hussain

Date of Birth:

Oct 05, 1963

Country of birth:

India

Biography of

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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Adil Hussain

Found 65 Movies in total

Mercy

Actor

... 2025

Ulajh

Actor

... 2024

Otta

Actor

... 2023

Sergeant

Haider Ali ( Actor )

... 2023

Dr. Bezbaruah 2

Dr. Bezbaruah ( Actor )

... 2023

A Knock on the Door

Hari ( Actor )

... 2023

Max, Min and Meowzaki

Ramesh Mahadevan ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2022

India Sweets and Spices

Ranjit Kapur ( Actor )

... 2021

Bell Bottom

Santook ( Actor )

... 2021

The Illegal

Papa ( Actor )

... 2021

Pareeksha

Buchchi Paswan ( Actor )

... 2020

Lord of the Orphans

Father ( Actor )

... 2020

Abyakto

Rudra ( Actor )

... 2020

Good Newwz

Dr. Anand Joshi ( Actor )

... 2019

Lorni - The Flaneur

Shem ( Actor )

... 2019

The Wayfarers

Lakhua ( Actor )

... 2019

Nirvana Inn

Jogiraj ( Actor )

... 2019

Axone

Guest Appearance ( Actor )

... 2019

Kabir Singh

College Dean ( Actor )

... 2019

Bombairiya

Pandya ( Actor )

... 2019

2.0

Home Minister ( Actor )

... 2018

Love Sonia

Shiva ( Actor )

... 2018

Maati

Jamil ( Actor )

... 2018

Ahare Mon

Purnendu Pahari ( Actor )

... 2018

Aiyaary

Retd. Colonel Mukesh Kapoor ( Actor )

... 2018

Maj Rati Keteki

Priyendu Hazarika ( Actor )

... 2017

What Will People Say

Mirza ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2017

Crash Test Aglae

Shankar ( Actor )

... 2017

Dobaara: See Your Evil

Alex Merchant ( Actor )

... 2017

Mantra

Man from Jharkhand ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2017

Raag

Actor

... 2017

Force 2

Brijesh Yadav ( Actor )

... 2016

The Violin Player

The Stranger ( Actor )

... 2016

Hotel Salvation

Rajiv ( Actor )

... 2016

Feast of Varanasi

Arjun ( Actor )

... 2016

Har Har Byomkesh

Zamindar ( Actor )

... 2015

Angry Indian Goddesses

Police Superintendent ( Actor )

... 2015

Parched

Mystic Lover ( Actor )

... 2015

Main Aur Charles

Amod Kanth ( Actor )

... 2015

... 2015

Yatchan

Selvam/Vetri ( Actor )

... 2015

Umrika

Agent de l’Immigration ( Actor )

... 2015

Unfreedom

Devraj Singh ( Actor )

... 2015

Zed Plus

Aslam Puncturewala ( Actor )

... 2014

Tigers

Bilal ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2014

... 2014

Sunrise

Joshi ( Actor )

... 2014

The Xposé

Rajan ( Actor )

... 2014

Nanak Shah Fakir

Rai Bullar ( Actor )

... 2014

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mustafa Fazil ( Actor )

... 2013

Lootera

K. N. Singh ( Actor )

... 2013

Life of Pi

Santosh Patel ( Actor )

Production Office Assistant

... 2012

English Vinglish

Satish Godbole ( Actor )

... 2012

Agent Vinod

Colonel ( Actor )

... 2012

Ishqiya

Vidyadhar Verma ( Actor )

... 2010

Kaminey

Flight Purser ( Actor )

... 2009

Iti Srikanta

Srikanta ( Actor )

... 2004

Calendar Girls

Jem's Friend 1 ( Actor )

... 2003

... 2003

Golmaal Gharana

Mr. Khanna ( Actor )

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