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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 5, 1963
Place of Birth
Goalpara, Assam, India
Also Known As
- 阿迪爾・胡賽恩
Adil Hussain
1.4 Popularity
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
Credits
Secret of a Mountain Serpent
as Manik Guho
2025
0.0
Mercy
2025
0.0
Ulajh
as Dhanraj Bhatia
2024
5.5
The Umesh Chronicles
2024
0.0
Otta
2023
0.0
Ek Betuke Aadmi Ki Afrah Raatein
2023
0.0
Sergeant
as Haider Ali
2023
2.0
Footprints on Water
as Raghu
2023
0.0
Tooth Pari: When Love Bites
2023
6.2
Dr. Bezbaruah 2
as Dr. Bezbaruah
2023
0.0
A Knock on the Door
as Hari
2023
2.0
Mukhbir: The Story of a Spy
as Ramkishore Negi
2022
6.2
Max, Min and Meowzaki
as Ramesh Mahadevan
2022
0.0
The Storyteller
as Ratan Garodia
2022
8.8
Child of Empire
as Ishar Das Arora
2022
0.0
India Sweets and Spices
as Ranjit Kapur
2021
5.7
Bell Bottom
as Santook
2021
6.3
The Illegal
as Papa
2021
10.0
Marichjhapi
2020
0.0
Pareeksha
as Buchchi Paswan
2020
5.8
Lord of the Orphans
as Father
2020
0.0
Abyakto
as Rudra
2020
9.0
Good Newwz
as Dr. Anand Joshi
2019
6.6
Lorni - The Flaneur
as Shem
2019
0.0
The Wayfarers
as Lakhua
2019
0.0
Nirvana Inn
as Jogiraj
2019
6.0
Axone
as Guest Appearance
2019
6.0
Kabir Singh
as College Dean
2019
6.4
MEAL
as Father
2019
8.0
Delhi Crime
as Kumar Vijay
2019
7.8
Bombairiya
as Pandya
2019
7.2
2.0
as Home Minister
2018
5.9
Love Sonia
as Shiva
2018
7.1
Maati
as Jamil
2018
9.0
Ahare Mon
as Purnendu Pahari
2018
6.0
Bioscopewala
as Robi Basu
2018
7.0
Aiyaary
as Retd. Colonel Mukesh Kapoor
2018
5.8
Maj Rati Keteki
as Priyendu Hazarika
2017
7.0
What Will People Say
as Mirza
2017
7.3
Star Trek: Discovery
as Aditya Sahil
2017
7.0
Nawal the Jewel
2017
5.5
Crash Test Aglae
as Shankar
2017
6.2
Dobaara: See Your Evil
as Alex Merchant
2017
4.7
Mantra
as Man from Jharkhand
2017
7.3
Commando 2 - The Black Money Trail
as Vicky Chadda
2017
6.1
Raag
2017
5.0
Chutney
as Viriji
2016
6.4
Force 2
as Brijesh Yadav
2016
6.7
The Violin Player
as The Stranger
2016
5.4
Hotel Salvation
as Rajiv
2016
6.8
Feast of Varanasi
as Arjun
2016
0.0
Har Har Byomkesh
as Zamindar
2015
6.3
Angry Indian Goddesses
as Police Superintendent
2015
6.8
Parched
as Mystic Lover
2015
7.3
Main Aur Charles
as Amod Kanth
2015
4.7
Kothanodi: The River of Fables
as Devinath
2015
7.8
Comedy Nights Bachao
as Self
2015
5.5
Yatchan
as Selvam/Vetri
2015
6.3
Umrika
as Agent de l’Immigration
2015
6.0
Unfreedom
as Devraj Singh
2015
5.1
Zed Plus
as Aslam Puncturewala
2014
7.3
Tigers
as Bilal
2014
7.1
Rodor Sithi
2014
4.0
Sringkhal
2014
5.0
Sunrise
as Joshi
2014
6.2
The Xposé
as Rajan
2014
4.4
Nanak Shah Fakir
as Rai Bullar
2014
8.0
Comedy Nights with Kapil
as Self
2013
6.7
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Mustafa Fazil
2013
6.6
Lessons in Forgetting
as Jak
2013
0.0
Lootera
as K. N. Singh
2013
6.9
Life of Pi
as Santosh Patel
2012
7.4
English Vinglish
as Satish Godbole
2012
7.2
Agent Vinod
as Colonel
2012
5.5
Gangor
as Upin
2011
6.0
Ishqiya
as Vidyadhar Verma
2010
6.4
Kaminey
as Flight Purser
2009
6.7
Iti Srikanta
as Srikanta
2004
10.0
Calendar Girls
as Jem's Friend 1
2003
6.5
In Othello
2003
0.0
Golmaal Gharana
as Mr. Khanna
N/A
0.0
Ram Part I
as Chithambaravel
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Confession
N/A
0.0
🎬
Blue 52
N/A
0.0
🎬
Riding on the Moon Boat
N/A
0.0