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 :
Title | Role | Language | Year |
Xongkolpo | Pulak | Assamese | 1986 |
Sutrapaat | Assamese | 1987 | |
Pita Putra | Assamese | 1988 | |
Bhai Bhai | Assamese | 1989 | |
In Othello Jasoos Vijay | Adil/Othello Vijay | English Hindi | 2003 |
Iti Srikanta | Srikanta | Bengali | 2004 |
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: Discovery | Aditya Sahil | English | 2020 |
Bell Bottom India Sweets and Spices Ram Bheeshma Parvam | Santook Ranjit Ramses Kaula | Hindi English Malayalam Malayalam | 2021 |