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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

86

Gender

Male

Birthday

1963-10-05 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

Goalpara, Assam, India

Also Known As

阿迪爾・胡賽恩

Adil Hussain

Biography

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.

Known For

Acting

Dr. Bezbaruah 2

2023

Dr. Bezbaruah 2

as

Dr. Bezbaruah

Max, Min and Meowzaki

2022

Max, Min and Meowzaki

as

Ramesh Mahadevan

Ishqiya

2010

Ishqiya

as

Vidyadhar Verma

Life of Pi

2012

Life of Pi

as

Santosh Patel

Sergeant

2023

Sergeant

as

Haider Ali

English Vinglish

2012

English Vinglish

as

Satish Godbole

Otta

2023

Otta

as

Lootera

2013

Lootera

as

K. N. Singh

The Storyteller

2022

The Storyteller

as

Ratan Garodia

Har Har Byomkesh

2015

Har Har Byomkesh

as

Zamindar

The Xposé

2014

The Xposé

as

Rajan

Child of Empire

2022

Child of Empire

as

Ishar Das Arora

Sunrise

2014

Sunrise

as

Joshi

Unfreedom

2015

Unfreedom

as

Devraj Singh

Yatchan

2015

Yatchan

as

Selvam/Vetri

Umrika

2015

Umrika

as

Agent de l’Immigration

Parched

2015

Parched

as

Mystic Lover

Ulajh

2024

Ulajh

as

Dhanraj Bhatia

Main Aur Charles

2015

Main Aur Charles

as

Amod Kanth

The Violin Player

2016

The Violin Player

as

The Stranger

Calendar Girls

2003

Calendar Girls

as

Jem's Friend 1

Agent Vinod

2012

Agent Vinod

as

Colonel

2.0

2018

2.0

as

Home Minister

Hotel Salvation

2016

Hotel Salvation

as

Rajiv

Golmaal Gharana

Golmaal Gharana

as

Mr. Khanna

Force 2

2016

Force 2

as

Brijesh Yadav

Angry Indian Goddesses

2015

Angry Indian Goddesses

as

Police Superintendent

Love Sonia

2018

Love Sonia

as

Shiva

Dobaara: See Your Evil

2017

Dobaara: See Your Evil

as

Alex Merchant

Chutney

2016

Chutney

as

Viriji

Mantra

2017

Mantra

as

Man from Jharkhand

Bioscopewala

2018

Bioscopewala

as

Robi Basu

Tigers

2014

Tigers

as

Bilal

Ahare Mon

2018

Ahare Mon

as

Purnendu Pahari

Aiyaary

2018

Aiyaary

as

Retd. Colonel Mukesh Kapoor

Kaminey

2009

Kaminey

as

Flight Purser

Raag

2017

Raag

as

Sringkhal

2014

Sringkhal

as

Bombairiya

2019

Bombairiya

as

Pandya

Nanak Shah Fakir

2014

Nanak Shah Fakir

as

Rai Bullar

Abyakto

2020

Abyakto

as

Rudra

Maati

2018

Maati

as

Jamil

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

2013

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

as

Mustafa Fazil

Kabir Singh

2019

Kabir Singh

as

College Dean

The Wayfarers

2019

The Wayfarers

as

Lakhua

Nirvana Inn

2019

Nirvana Inn

as

Jogiraj

The Illegal

2021

The Illegal

as

Papa

Ram Part I

Ram Part I

as

Chithambaravel

Good Newwz

2019

Good Newwz

as

Dr. Anand Joshi

Zed Plus

2014

Zed Plus

as

Aslam Puncturewala

Gangor

2011

Gangor

as

Upin

Maj Rati Keteki

2017

Maj Rati Keteki

as

Priyendu Hazarika

Axone

2019

Axone

as

Guest Appearance

Pareeksha

2020

Pareeksha

as

Buchchi Paswan

Crash Test Aglae

2017

Crash Test Aglae

as

Shankar

Bell Bottom

2021

Bell Bottom

as

Santook

Iti Srikanta

2004

Iti Srikanta

as

Srikanta

MEAL

2019

MEAL

as

Father

India Sweets and Spices

2021

India Sweets and Spices

as

Ranjit Kapur

Mercy

2025

Mercy

as

Delhi Crime

Delhi Crime

as

Kumar Vijay

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Discovery

as

Aditya Sahil

Production

Crew

Directing