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.
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. ...
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Secret of a Mountain Serpent
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Ulajh
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The Umesh Chronicles
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Otta
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Ek Betuke Aadmi Ki Afrah Raatein
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Sergeant
Character:Haider Ali
Release Date:30/06/2023
Footprints on Water
Character:Raghu
Release Date:13/05/2023
Dr. Bezbaruah 2
Character:Dr. Bezbaruah
Release Date:03/02/2023
A Knock on the Door
Character:Hari
Release Date:25/01/2023
Max, Min and Meowzaki
Character:Ramesh Mahadevan
Release Date:10/10/2022
The Storyteller
Character:Ratan Garodia
Release Date:08/10/2022
Child of Empire
Character:Ishar Das Arora
Release Date:15/06/2022
India Sweets and Spices
Character:Ranjit Kapur
Release Date:19/11/2021
Bell Bottom
Character:Santook
Release Date:19/08/2021
The Illegal
Character:Papa
Release Date:23/03/2021
Marichjhapi
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Release Date:31/12/2020
Pareeksha
Character:Buchchi Paswan
Release Date:26/07/2020
Lord of the Orphans
Character:Father
Release Date:17/07/2020
Abyakto
Character:Rudra
Release Date:31/01/2020
Good Newwz
Character:Dr. Anand Joshi
Release Date:27/12/2019
Lorni - The Flaneur
Character:Shem
Release Date:20/11/2019
The Wayfarers
Character:Lakhua
Release Date:07/10/2019
Nirvana Inn
Character:Jogiraj
Release Date:06/10/2019
Axone
Character:Guest Appearance
Release Date:02/10/2019
Kabir Singh
Character:College Dean
Release Date:20/06/2019
MEAL
Character:Father
Release Date:27/04/2019
Bombairiya
Character:Pandya
Release Date:11/01/2019
2.0
Character:Home Minister
Release Date:29/11/2018
Love Sonia
Character:Shiva
Release Date:14/09/2018
Maati
Character:Jamil
Release Date:13/07/2018
Ahare Mon
Character:Purnendu Pahari
Release Date:22/06/2018
Bioscopewala
Character:Robi Basu
Release Date:25/05/2018
Aiyaary
Character:Retd. Colonel Mukesh Kapoor
Release Date:16/02/2018
Maj Rati Keteki
Character:Priyendu Hazarika
Release Date:27/10/2017
What Will People Say
Character:Mirza
Release Date:06/10/2017
Nawal the Jewel
Character:
Release Date:18/08/2017
Crash Test Aglae
Character:Shankar
Release Date:02/08/2017
Dobaara: See Your Evil
Character:Alex Merchant
Release Date:19/05/2017
Mantra
Character:Man from Jharkhand
Release Date:17/03/2017
Commando 2 - The Black Money Trail
Character:Vicky Chadda
Release Date:02/03/2017
Raag
Character:
Release Date:07/02/2017
Chutney
Character:Viriji
Release Date:28/11/2016
Force 2
Character:Brijesh Yadav
Release Date:18/11/2016
The Violin Player
Character:The Stranger
Release Date:26/09/2016
Hotel Salvation
Character:Rajiv
Release Date:02/09/2016
Feast of Varanasi
Character:Arjun
Release Date:11/03/2016
Har Har Byomkesh
Character:Zamindar
Release Date:18/12/2015
Angry Indian Goddesses
Character:Police Superintendent
Release Date:04/12/2015
Parched
Character:Mystic Lover
Release Date:14/11/2015
Main Aur Charles
Character:Amod Kanth
Release Date:30/10/2015
Kothanodi: The River of Fables
Character:Devinath
Release Date:10/10/2015
Yatchan
Character:Selvam/Vetri
Release Date:11/09/2015
Umrika
Character:Agent de l’Immigration
Release Date:29/07/2015
Unfreedom
Character:Devraj Singh
Release Date:29/05/2015
Zed Plus
Character:Aslam Puncturewala
Release Date:28/11/2014
Tigers
Character:Bilal
Release Date:08/11/2014
Rodor Sithi
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Release Date:07/11/2014
Sringkhal
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Release Date:17/10/2014
Sunrise
Character:Joshi
Release Date:03/10/2014
The Xposé
Character:Rajan
Release Date:16/05/2014
Nanak Shah Fakir
Character:Rai Bullar
Release Date:14/05/2014
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Character:Mustafa Fazil
Release Date:24/04/2013
Lessons in Forgetting
Character:Jak
Release Date:19/04/2013
Lootera
Character:K. N. Singh
Release Date:04/04/2013
Life of Pi
Character:Santosh Patel
Release Date:20/11/2012
English Vinglish
Character:Satish Godbole
Release Date:21/09/2012
Agent Vinod
Character:Colonel
Release Date:23/03/2012
Gangor
Character:Upin
Release Date:01/01/2011
Ishqiya
Character:Vidyadhar Verma
Release Date:29/01/2010
Kaminey
Character:Flight Purser
Release Date:14/08/2009
Iti Srikanta
Character:Srikanta
Release Date:04/06/2004
Calendar Girls
Character:Jem's Friend 1
Release Date:02/09/2003
In Othello
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Release Date:05/06/2003
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