Irshad Panjatan
Irshad Panjatan (born September 7, 1931 in Hyderabad ) is an Indian - German actor and pantomime .
Life
Panjatan was born in Hyderabad in 1931 as the second youngest of seven siblings in an upper-class and socially committed family. His brother Abid Hussain (1926–2012) was a renowned economist and between 1990 and 1992 India's ambassador to the United States. Irshad Panjatan initially worked as an aircraft engineer, but decided in 1950 to pursue an acting career and moved to New Delhi for this . He took acting lessons and became a member of the well-known Hindustani Theater in the 1950s .
Eventually Panjatan began to occupy himself intensively with pantomime . From the 1960s onwards he had great success with his solo pantomime performances. Since pantomime was practically not widespread in India before Panjatan, he is considered an important pioneer of this art in his home country. From 1965 Panjatan worked occasionally in Indian films, although his film appearances remained irregular. Instead, he focused on pantomime appearances around the world. Panjatan has lived in Berlin since the 1970s. He has a daughter with his German wife Ingrid, whom he married in 1975. For decades he ran a pantomime school in Berlin.
He became known to a wider public in 2001 through his role as the Shoshone chief "Cunning Lurch" in the parody western Der Schuh des Manitu . He was rarely seen in front of the camera before, and has since made many appearances in film and television. In 2017 he was again in front of the camera for Michael Herbig at Bullyparade - The Film .
Filmography
- 1965: Aasmaan Mahal (The Heavenly Palace)
- 1967: Bambai Raat Ki Bahon Mein (Bombay By Night)
- 1969: Saat Hindustani
- 1970: Army Ranjha
- 1971: Kangan
- 1971: Chhoti Bahu
- 1971: Bikhre Moti
- 1999: Our Charly : Charly and the monkey god
- 2000: My Sweet Home
- 2001: Manitou's shoe
- 2001: The bull from Tölz: Bull cure
- 2002: God is no Soprano
- 2003: Stubbe - Case by case : Yesterday
- 2003: The Troublemaker
- 2004: Around the world in 80 days
- 2005: Kebab Connection
- 2005: sleeping bag for two
- 2005: Pastewka - The cinema evening
- 2007: Tatort - dying for the heirs
- 2007: Free Rainer - Your television is lying
- 2009: Under Different Circumstances - To Love and Death
- 2010: Meg Pfeiffer - Poker Face music video as a poker player at the table
- 2011: The super bulls
- 2011: Kookaburra - The Comedy Club
- 2011: The witch Lilli - The trip to Mandolan
- 2012: Iron Sky
- 2012: Clarissa's secret
- 2013: Buddha's Little Finger
- 2013: The medicus
- 2013: Yesterdays (short film)
- 2014: Tatort - circus child
- 2015: Marry Me - In Indian please
- 2017: Triple Ex (TV series, episode Robbie Calls )
- 2017: The Old One (TV series, episode The Third Eye )
- 2017: Bullyparade - The Movie
Web links
- Irshad Panjatan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silent emotions . In: The Hindu . July 13, 2012, ISSN 0971-751X ( thehindu.com [accessed September 30, 2018]).
- ↑ Sandeep Dikshit: Abid Hussain passes away . In: The Hindu . June 21, 2012, ISSN 0971-751X ( thehindu.com [accessed September 30, 2018]).
- ↑ Irshad - a master teller of tales without words - Times of India . In: The Times of India . ( indiatimes.com [accessed September 30, 2018]).
- ^ International Actors - Irshad Panjatan. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Panjatan, Irshad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian-German actor and pantomime |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hyderabad |