Adil Hussain

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Adil Hussain at the Life of Pi press event, 2012

Adil Hussain ( Assamese আদিল হুছেইন ) (born October 5, 1963 in Goalpara , Assam ) is an Indian theater, film and television actor. He mainly plays in Hindi and Assamnesian languages in Hindi and art house films . He also plays in international productions such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi .

biography

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

As a member of the standup comedian group Bhaya Mama Group , Adil mimicked popular Bollywood actors. For six years he worked as a stand-up comedian, then he joined a traveling theater and also starred in local films.

At the age of 27, he enrolled in the National School of Drama . He attended this for the next three years. After graduation, he received a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship to study at Drama Studios London , which he dropped out in 1994 because it did not meet his expectations. After returning to New Delhi , he worked with the Hengul Theater in Assam for the next three years . He also took lessons from Khalid Tyabji, Shaupon Boshu ( Aurobindo Ashram , Puducherry ) and Dilip Shakar.

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

Acting career

After returning to India from Europe in 1994, he worked for three years with the traveling theater Hengul Theater in Assam before moving to Delhi.

The performance Othello: A Play in Black and White of the Indian Shakespeare Company in 1999 during the Edinburgh Fringe provided 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 . In 2004 he became a teacher of acrobatics at the Society for Artistics and Performers in Hampi and continued this activity until 2007.

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

For BBC World Service Trust he starred in the detective television series Jasoos Vijay for 2002 and 2003. In 2004 he made his film debut in Bengali alongside Soha Ali Khan in the film Iti Srikanta in a leading role.

Smaller roles in Assamnesian language such as Vishal Bhardwaj's film Kaminey and Sona Jain's film For Real didn't get him any Bollywood attention. It wasn't until his role in Abhishek Chaubey's Ishqiya that Bollywood noticed him. He started his Bollywood career in Saif Ali Khan's film Agent Vinod in 2012. In the same year the film Gangor , made by the Italian director Italo Spinelli , Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Ang Lee's Life of Pi appeared .

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

Awards

Filmography

television
Short Films (for Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Life of Pi - a fascinating story: movie review. (No longer available online.) In: EF News International . November 28, 2012, archived from the original on November 1, 2013 ; accessed on August 30, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Gray Matter. In: India Today . December 28, 2012, accessed August 30, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b Psychologies: 'English Should Not Diminish Respect For All Languages'. (No longer available online.) In: Tehelka . March 2, 2013, archived from the original on November 3, 2013 ; Retrieved August 30, 2013 (English, Issue 09 Volume 10).
  4. ↑ a b A new thinking woman's pin-up is born. ( Memento from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Steamed to perfection. (No longer available online.) In: The Hindu . October 3, 2012, archived from the original on March 16, 2014 ; accessed on August 30, 2013 .
  6. ↑ a b Goalpara boy hits the big time. In: The Times of India . March 23, 2012, accessed October 6, 2013 .
  7. ^ A b Adil Hussain: Destiny's child. In: The Times of India, Crest Edition. January 29, 2011, accessed May 17, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Role call. In: The Hindu . September 9, 2010, accessed September 2, 2013 .
  9. ↑ a b c Adil Hussain creates space in the world stage. In: Assam Times . November 8, 2010, archived from the original on December 4, 2010 ; accessed on September 6, 2013 .
  10. ↑ I'm Sridevi's husband: Adil Hussain ( English ) Hindustan Times . April 1, 2012. Accessed May 17, 2020.
  11. ↑ Adil is back. In: The Times of India . November 11, 2009, accessed October 29, 2013 .
  12. ↑ I'm paid well now: Adil Hussainref. In: The times of India. September 16, 2010, accessed October 29, 2013 .
  13. ↑ 'English Vinglish' star Adil Hussain wins best actor award at US fest. In: CNN-IBN . October 12, 2012, accessed October 29, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Hussain, Adil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES আদিল হুছেইন
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian actor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Goalpara , Assam