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 an Assamese Muslim family in Goalpara, Assam in 1963,where his father was a teacher, Hussain was the youngest of seven children.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).

Adil Hussain also studied at the Drama Studio London on a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship.After his return to India in 1994, Hussain joined with the mobile ‘Hengul Theater’ in Assam, here 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.

Adil Hussain 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.His next role as Inspector K. N. Singh was in the Ranveer Singh-Sonakshi Sinha Lootera under Vikramaditya Motwane’s direction. This followed with Amit Vats’ comedy Boyss Toh Boyss Hain, the story of four young men with similar problems in life, who eventually find their way to true love.[citation needed]Hussain opened 2014 with the Assamese film Raag:

The Rhythm of Love playing Iqbal, which marked his first Assamese film in a lead role. Sringkhal and Rodor Sithi were his other Assamese releases in the year. He was also seen in Hindi films like Kaanchi: The Unbreakable as a CBI officer, The Xposé as Rajan starring Himesh Reshammiya in the lead, and Tigers as Bilal starring Emraan Hashmi. Tigers, based on a real-life story about a salesman, was screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. His first lead role in a Hindi film came with the drama Zed Plus as Aslam Puncturewala.

Adil Hussain All Movie List :

TitleRoleLanguageYear
XongkolpoPulakAssamese1986
SutrapaatAssamese1987
Pita PutraAssamese1988
Bhai BhaiAssamese1989
In Othello
Jasoos Vijay
Adil/Othello
Vijay
English
Hindi
2003
Iti SrikantaSrikantaBengali2004
Kaminey
For Real
Flight Purser
Ravi Shukla
Hindi
English
2009
Ishqiya
Gangor
Vidyadhar Verma
Upin
Hindi
Bengali
2010
Agent Vinod
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
English Vinglish
Life of Pi
Lessons in Forgetting
Colonel
Mustafa Fazil
Satish Godbole
Santosh Patel
J.A. Krishnamoorthy
Hindi
English
Hindi
English
English
2012
Lootera
Boyss Toh Boyss Hain
Inspector K.N. Singh
Hindi
Hindi
2013
Raag: The Rhythm of Love
Kaanchi: The Unbreakable
The Xposé
Sringkhal
Rodor Sithi
Zed Plus
Tigers / White Lies
Iqbal
CBI officer
Rajan
Kalidas

Aslam Puncturewala
Bilal
Assamese
Hindi
Hindi
Assamese
Assamese
Hindi
Hindi
2014
Main Aur Charles
Jai Ho Democracy
Unfreedom / Blemished Light
Parched
Feast of Varanasi
Yatchan
Ahaan
Nanak Shah Fakir
Arunoday-Sunrise
Angry Indian Goddesses
Har Har Byomkesh
Umrika
Amod Kant
Major Baruah
Devraj
Mystic lover
Arjun
Selvam/Vetri

Rai Bullar
Joshi
Police Superintendent
Deepnarayan Singh
Patel
Hindi
Hindi
English/Hindi
Hindi
English
Tamil
Hindi
English
Marathi
Hindi
Bengali
Hindi
2015
The Violin Player
Crash test Aglaé
Bombairiya
Force 2
Kothanodi
Leena’s Beauty Parlour
Chakra



HRD Minister Brijesh Verma
Devinath

Hindi
Hindi
Hindi
Hindi
Assamese
Assamese
Hindi
2016
Commando 2
Love Sonia
Mantra
Hotel Salvation
Dobaara: See Your Evil
What Will People Say
Maj Rati Keteki
Naval Enna Jewel
The Illegal
Karan’s Boss
Shiva
Man from Jharkhand
Rajiv
Alex Merchant
Mirza
Priyendu Hazarika
Intelligence police officer
Papa
Hindi
Hindi /English
Hindi
Hindi /English
Hindi
Norwegian
Assamese
Malayalam
English
2017
At Large
Maati
Ahare Mon
Aiyaary
Bioscopewala
2.0
Nine Hours In Mumbai
Rajma Chawal

Jamil
Purnendu Pahari
Retd. Colonel Mukesh Kapoor
Robi Basu
Minister S. Vijay Kumar
Veer
English
Bengali
Bengali
Hindi
Hindi
Tamil
Hindi
Hindi
2018
Bombairiya
Delhi Crime
Kabir Singh
Good Newwz
Nirvana Inn
Raahgir – The Wayfarers
Pareeksha
Pandya
Kumar Vijay
Dean of the college
Dr. Anand Joshi

Lakhua
Bucchi
Hindi
Hindi
Hindi
Hindi
Hindi
Hindi
Hindi
2019
Star Trek: DiscoveryAditya SahilEnglish2020
Bell Bottom
India Sweets and Spices
Ram
Bheeshma Parvam
Santook
Ranjit

Ramses Kaula
Hindi
English
Malayalam
Malayalam
2021

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