Adil Hussain

Adil Hussain ( Assamese আদিল হুছেইন ) ( born October 5, 1963 in Goalpara, Assam ) is an Indian theater, film and television actor. He plays predominantly Hindu and assamnesicher in Hindi language and art-house films. Secondly, it plays in international productions such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi.

Biography

Adil Hussain was born in Goalpara ( Assam ), the son of a teacher and where he grew up with six siblings. Already during his school years he worked as an actor. At 18, he left Goalpara to, his father's wish nachkommend to study philosophy at Bhola Borooah College, Guwahati. Even in college, he worked as an actor and stand-up comedian.

As a member of the stand-up comedian group Bhaya Mama Group imitated Adil popular Bollywood actor. For six years he worked as a stand-up comedian, then he joined a traveling theater and played in local feature films.

At 27, he enrolled at the National School of Drama. These he visited the following three years. After graduating, he got a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for study at the Drama Studio London, which he broke in 1994 because it did not meet his expectations. Upon his return to New Delhi he worked in Assam for the next three years with the Hengul theater. He also took lessons with Khalid Tyabji, Shaupon Boshu ( Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry ) and Dilip Shakar.

Adil is married and has a son born in 2010. He currently lives in New Delhi.

Acting Career

After his return from Europe to India in 1994 he worked for three years with the traveling theater Hengul theaters in Assam, before he went to Delhi.

The performance of Othello: A Play in Black and White of the Indian Shakespeare Company was formed in 1999 during the Edinburgh Fringe with an award. His interpretation of Othello was well received. With this production, Adil Hussain went on tour through several European and African countries. Also directed by Roysten Abel, he starred in Goodbye Desdemona. He was a teacher of artistry at the 2004 Society for Artistics and Performers in Hampi and led this activity until 2007.

In addition to teaching at the National School of Drama, he taught at the Drama School in Amsterdam, the Royal Conservatory of Performing Arts in The Hague and the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.

For BBC World Service Trust, he took a lead role in the detective TV series Jasoos Vijay for the years 2002 and 2003. In 2004 he made his film debut in Bengali on the side of Soha Ali Khan in the movie Iti Srikanta in one of the lead roles.

Smaller roles in assamnesicher language like Vishal Bhardwaj in Kaminey movie and Sona Jain's For Real film brought him no attention of Bollywood. It was not until his role in Ishqiya Abhishek Chaubeys made ​​Bollywood notice him. His Bollywood career started in Saif Ali Khan's film Agent Vinod in 2012. During the same year, the Italian director Italo Spinelli turned from film Gangor, Mira Nair appeared film The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Ang Lee's Life of Pi

In the culture-clash comedy English for Beginners, he had a starring role alongside Sridevi who made her comeback in this movie. For the film, Lessons in Forgetting, he received the Best Actor Award ceremony at the New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine. His next films are announced: Aditya Bhattacharya Bombay 's Most Wanted, Vikramaditya Motwanes Lootera and Partho Sen - Gupta's Sunrise.

Awards

• Best Actor award, New Jersey South Indian Independent Film Festival

Filmography

• In Othello ( 2003)
• Iti Srikanta (2004)
• Kaminey (2009)
• Gangor (2010)
• Ishqiya (2010)
• Agent Vinod (2012 )
• English for Beginners (2012 )
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012 )
• Life of Pi (2012 )
• Lessons in Forgetting (2012 )
• Blemished Light ( 2012)
• Lootera (2013 )
• Leena 's Beauty Parlour ( Assamese, 2013)
• Sringkhal ( Assamese, 2013)
• White Lies (film ) ( 2013)

• Jasoos Vijay (2002-2003, Season 1 and 2)

• Doctor, Nurse and Patient ( Hindi, 2010)
• Infected (English, 2012)