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.
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a...
Movie page
2.0
as Home MinisterAn ornithologist who commits suicide returns as fifth force to wreack vengeance on mankind for...
Movie page
Kabir Singh
as College DeanKabir, a genius yet hostile medical student, falls in love with Preeti from his college. When...
Movie page
Calendar Girls
as Jem's Friend 1Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for...
Movie page
English Vinglish
as Satish GodboleIn the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English...
Movie page
Ulajh
as Dhanraj BhatiaThe journey of a young IFS officer, belonging to a prominent family of patriots, who gets...
Movie page
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Mustafa FazilIn New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the...
Movie page
Parched
as Mystic LoverIn the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural...
Movie page
Aiyaary
as Retd. Colonel Mukesh KapoorAn Indian Army officer is compelled to chase down his protege when the latter turns rogue and...
Movie page
Commando 2 - The Black Money Trail
as Vicky ChaddaIndia's most wanted Black Money agent, Vicky Chaddha, gets arrested in Malaysia and is kept in a...
Movie page
Kaminey
as Flight PurserTwo brothers, as different as chalk and cheese, find their lives intertwined when one puts...
Movie page
Agent Vinod
as ColonelAgent Vinod sets out on a secret mission to find the reason behind the death of Rajan, his...
Movie page
What Will People Say
as MirzaSixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani...
Movie page
Lootera
as K. N. SinghIn a village, a young archaeologist falls in love with a landlord's daughter. Their union seems...
Movie page
Good Newwz
as Dr. Anand JoshiTwo couples with the same surnames pursue in-vitro fertilisation and wait for their upcoming...
Movie page
Force 2
as Brijesh YadavACP Yashvardhan teams up RAW Agent KK to bring down the master mind terrorist, Shiv.
Movie page
Ishqiya
as Vidyadhar VermaWhile on the run from goons, a man and his nephew fall for a kidnapper's seductive widow.
Movie page
Crash Test Aglae
as ShankarAglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site....
Movie page
Umrika
as Agent de l’ImmigrationWhen a young village boy discovers that his brother, long believed to be in America, has...
Movie page
Tigers
as BilalAyan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation...
Movie page
India Sweets and Spices
as Ranjit KapurA college freshman confronts her parents’ values in order to understand her own evolving identity.
Movie page
Love Sonia
as ShivaInspired by a real story of young girl's journey escape from the world of international sex...
Movie page
Angry Indian Goddesses
as Police SuperintendentA photographer invites her closest friends to vacation at her family's home in Goa in...
Movie page
Axone
as Guest AppearanceThis bittersweet comedy follows North-east Indians in Delhi who are attempting to organize a...
Movie page
Hotel Salvation
as RajivAn ominous dream convinces 77-year-old Dayanand Kumar that his end could be near. He takes the...
Movie page
Iti Srikanta
as SrikantaThe film portrays the disreputable life of Srikanta and his encounters with various women. After...
Movie page
Maati
as JamilMeghla, who after years discovers that her grandmother had been killed in her ancestral home in...
Movie page
Bell Bottom
as SantookBy the early ‘80s, India had already witnessed multiple airplane hijacks. In 1984, the country...
Movie page
Bombairiya
as PandyaIt follows the story of Meghna, who gets embroiled in a series of events after her phone gets...
Movie page
The Storyteller
as uncreditedAfter decades of working in the printing industry in Kolkata in eastern India, Tarini has...
Movie page
Ahare Mon
as Purnendu PahariA heartwarming collage of inter-connected love stories, Ahare Mon is a romantic drama that...
Movie page
Dobaara: See Your Evil
as Alex MerchantAn official adaptation of the cult horror film Oculus. The film revolves around a haunted...
Movie page
Nanak Shah Fakir
as Rai BullarNanak Shah Fakir is a biographical film on the life and teachings of the first Sikh guru, Guru...
Movie page
The Xposé
as RajanThis is a dramatic chain of events in the most glamorous ,swinging era of Hindi films... the...
Movie page
Nirvana Inn
as JogirajJogi, once a dancer but now a boatman, deliberately overthrows his boat full of people to kill...
Movie page
Abyakto
as RudraAbyakto is a poignant tale of a mother and son. The story encapsulates the unusual journey of...
Movie page
In Othello
as uncreditedWithin the Delhi based English theater group, a crisis in the personal and professional...
Movie page
Sunrise
as JoshiInspector Joshi is a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when...
Movie page
Feast of Varanasi
as ArjunAn investigator is dispatched to Varanasi to look into a series of grisly murders.
Movie page
Max, Min and Meowzaki
as Ramesh MahadevanMax and Min are about to break up. They argue endlessly about dividing their possessions,...
Movie page
The Umesh Chronicles
as uncreditedIt's an independent slice-of-life drama and will see Amitabh Bachchan playing a Lucknow cab driver.
Movie page
Sringkhal
as uncreditedSringkhal is a Assamese drama film directed by Prabin Hazarika, based on an Assamese short story...
Movie page
Rodor Sithi
as uncreditedRodor Sithi is a Assamese language musical drama film directed by Baharul Islam; based on a play...
Movie page
Kothanodi: The River of Fables
as DevinathFour folk tales from Assam re-imagined as a narrative about four mothers, each facing demons of...
Movie page
Zed Plus
as Aslam PuncturewalaAslam (Adil Hussain), a villager who runs a small business, accidentally meets the prime...
Movie page
Sergeant
as Haider AliSergeant Nikhil Sharma suffers from severe depression after losing a limb while on duty....
Movie page
Pareeksha
as Buchchi PaswanThe film revolves around the story of an ordinary rickshaw driver in Bihar who aspires and...
Movie page
The Illegal
as PapaA gritty realistic story about a young film school student from middle-class India who's forced...
Movie page
Har Har Byomkesh
as ZamindarFamed detective Byomkesh Bakshi investigates the murder of a man who had just thrown a party to...
Movie page
The Violin Player
as The StrangerA Bollywood session violinist finds expression in an unlikely place. The day unfolds to reveal...
Movie page
Maj Rati Keteki
as Priyendu HazarikaAfter a long gap of more than ten years, renowned writer Priyendu Hazarika returns to the town...
Movie page
Chutney
as VirijiChutney is a short film written and directed by Jyoti Kapur Das. Produced by Tisca Chopra The...
Movie page
Golmaal Gharana
as Mr. Khanna"Golmaal Gharana" is a quirky and hilarious film about an eccentric joint family living in an...
Movie page
Otta
as uncreditedOtta is the thrilling saga of two young men and their unexpected journey towards an unforeseen...
Movie page
Raag
as uncreditedRaag is a 2014 Assamese language drama film, starring Adil Hussain and Zerifa Wahid in the lead...
Movie page
Nawal the Jewel
as uncreditedAsma Beevi, a 14-year-old Muslim girl is married to an old Arabic man. After few days of the...
Movie page
Unfreedom
as Devraj SinghA Muslim fundamentalist in New York kidnaps a liberal Muslim scholar with intent to kill. A...
Movie page
Mantra
as Man from JharkhandIn 1991, the Government of India opened up the economy and unleashed the forces of...
Movie page
Yatchan
as Selvam/VetriA small-time hooligan hired to kill a girl and an aspiring movie actor find themselves in the...
Movie page
Bioscopewala
as Robi BasuBased on Rabindranath Tagore’s famous short story 'Kabuliwala', the film is about a young girl’s...
Movie page
Main Aur Charles
as Amod KanthIn the 1980s, Charles, an enigmatic con man and a vicious killer and Commisioner Amod Kanth are...
Movie page
Lord of the Orphans
as FatherLord of the Orphans is the story of a family (The Palit Family) reeling under a hundred year old...
Movie page
The Wayfarers
as LakhuaIt is a story of two strangers, perpetually on the fringes of survival. They share a journey and...
Movie page
A Knock on the Door
as HariAs they prepare to celebrate their wedding anniversary, politically committed professors Hari...
Movie page
Footprints on Water
as RaghuThe story travels through the life of the family, who faces a tough time when their daughter...
Movie page
Marichjhapi
as uncreditedIn January 1979, refugees in the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh encounter police surrounding...
Movie page
MEAL
as FatherA child in school uniform picks up broken remnants from a wall clock. Today happens to be the...
Movie page
Dr. Bezbaruah 2
as Dr. BezbaruahShantanu finally agrees to return to his birthplace Assam after seven long years to attend his...
Movie page
Child of Empire
as Ishar Das AroraTwo men from the Partition generation — Ishar Das Arora, an Indian Hindu who migrated from...
Movie page
Lorni - The Flaneur
as ShemShem (Adil Hussain), an out of work, self-styled detective with a sharp sense of the streets...
Movie page
Star Trek: Discovery
as Aditya SahilFollow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and...
TV Show page
Comedy Nights with Kapil
as SelfComedy Nights with Kapil is a comedy show which provides a distinctive take on the everyday life...
TV Show page
Delhi Crime
as Kumar VijayFollowing the police force as they investigate high-profile crimes in Delhi, this series has...
TV Show page
Comedy Nights Bachao
as SelfBased on the format of roast comedy, the show features comic crusaders who take a jibe at...
TV Show page
Mukhbir: The Story of a Spy
as Ramkishore NegiAfter the Sino-India war, a highly trained Indian spy enters Pakistan on a mission to gather...
TV Show page
Tooth Pari: When Love Bites
as uncreditedA rebellious vampire with a broken tooth falls for a shy dentist on the streets of Kolkata but...
TV Show page