Adil Hussain
Adil Hussain (born October 5, 1963) 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.
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2918 |
| Birthday | 1963-10-05 |
| Place of Birth | Goalpara, Assam, India |
| Also Known As | 阿迪爾・胡賽恩, |
2023
Dr. Bezbaruah 2
0/0
Shantanu finally agrees to return to his birthplace Assam after seven long years to attend his sister's wedding but his fate welcomes him with some od...
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Dr. Bezbaruah 2
2026
Max, Min and Meowzaki
0/0
Max and Min are about to break up. They argue endlessly about dividing their possessions, including their cat, Meowzaki, whom they have named after th...
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Max, Min and Meowzaki
2010
Ishqiya
6.5/81
While on the run from goons, a man and his nephew fall for a kidnapper's seductive widow.
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Ishqiya
2012
Life of Pi
7.413/14004
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipw...
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Life of Pi
2023
Sergeant
2/2
Sergeant Nikhil Sharma suffers from severe depression after losing a limb while on duty. However, after meeting Monica, he gains confidence and vows t...
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Sergeant
2012
English Vinglish
7.248/307
In the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English turns Manhattan into her personal language school.
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English Vinglish
2023
Otta
0/0
Otta is the thrilling saga of two young men and their unexpected journey towards an unforeseen future. Amidst the tumultuous relationship with their p...
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Otta
2013
Lootera
6.968/95
In a village, a young archaeologist falls in love with a landlord's daughter. Their union seems doomed. But destiny brings them together a year later....
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Lootera
2022
The Storyteller
7.3/5
After decades of working in the printing industry in Kolkata in eastern India, Tarini has reached retirement age. He spends his days at home, having d...
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The Storyteller
2003
In Othello
9/1
Within the Delhi based English theater group, a crisis in the personal and professional relationships of the actors is doomed to make a mockery of the...
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In Othello
2015
Har Har Byomkesh
6.3/6
Famed detective Byomkesh Bakshi investigates the murder of a man who had just thrown a party to celebrate his recovery from a long illness.
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Har Har Byomkesh
2014
The Xposé
4.545/11
This is a dramatic chain of events in the most glamorous ,swinging era of Hindi films... the 1960s. It was a decade when film stars tasted success and...
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The Xposé
2022
Child of Empire
0/0
Two men from the Partition generation — Ishar Das Arora, an Indian Hindu who migrated from Pakistan to India, and Iqbal-ud-din Ahmed, a Pakistani Musl...
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Child of Empire
2019
Lorni - The Flaneur
0/0
Shem (Adil Hussain), an out of work, self-styled detective with a sharp sense of the streets escapes the lethargy of small town Shillong when he is as...
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Lorni - The Flaneur
2014
Sunrise
6.2/20
Inspector Joshi is a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when she was six. In his despair, life converges with a rec...
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Sunrise
2015
Unfreedom
5.15/20
A Muslim fundamentalist in New York kidnaps a liberal Muslim scholar with intent to kill. A closeted lesbian in New Delhi kidnaps her activist bisexua...
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Unfreedom
2015
Yatchan
6.3/11
A small-time hooligan hired to kill a girl and an aspiring movie actor find themselves in the wrong place due to a mix-up. Now, the gangster who order...
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Yatchan
2015
Umrika
6.039/38
When a young village boy discovers that his brother, long believed to be in America, has actually gone missing, he begins to invent letters on his beh...
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Umrika
2015
Parched
7.327/101
In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.
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Parched
Riding on the Moon Boat
0/0
The film follows an adolescent girl who struggles to survive through drought, hardship and discrimination as her father is shunned by the majority of...
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Riding on the Moon Boat
2024
Ulajh
5.763/19
The journey of a young IFS officer, belonging to a prominent family of patriots, who gets embroiled in a dangerous personal conspiracy while far from...
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Ulajh
2026
52 Blue
5/1
Isolated by his father, Ashish escapes home aged 23 with his mother's unwavering support to meet his idol, Messi, in the 2022 world cup in Qatar. Star...
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52 Blue
2015
Main Aur Charles
4.636/11
In the 1980s, Charles, an enigmatic con man and a vicious killer and Commisioner Amod Kanth are embroiled in a game of cat and mouse.
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Main Aur Charles
2016
The Violin Player
5.4/16
A Bollywood session violinist finds expression in an unlikely place. The day unfolds to reveal startling truths about music, art, life and survival.
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The Violin Player
2003
Calendar Girls
6.526/418
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
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Calendar Girls
2016
Feast of Varanasi
0/0
An investigator is dispatched to Varanasi to look into a series of grisly murders.
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Feast of Varanasi
2013
Lessons in Forgetting
0/0
The film revolves around Meera, a happy corporate wife and cookbook writer whose life turns upside down when her husband walks out on their marriage....
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Lessons in Forgetting
2015
Kothanodi: The River of Fables
7.85/10
Four folk tales from Assam re-imagined as a narrative about four mothers, each facing demons of her own.
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Kothanodi: The River of Fables
2023
A Knock on the Door
2/1
As they prepare to celebrate their wedding anniversary, politically committed professors Hari and Ramona receive a group of unwanted visitors claiming...
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A Knock on the Door
2024
The Umesh Chronicles
0/0
Radha, a 12-year-old girl growing up in a privileged, middle class home in the 1980s, is surrounded by family, books, and music. She has limited conta...
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The Umesh Chronicles
2012
Agent Vinod
5.5/72
Agent Vinod sets out on a secret mission to find the reason behind the death of Rajan, his colleague. Terror strikes when he unfolds an even bigger co...
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Agent Vinod
2018
2.0
5.834/187
An ornithologist who commits suicide returns as fifth force to wreack vengeance on mankind for harming birds with mobile phone radiation. The only thi...
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2.0
2016
Mukti Bhawan
6.892/38
An ominous dream convinces 77-year-old Dayanand Kumar that his end could be near. He takes the news to his son Rajiv, knowing he wants to breathe his...
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Golmaal Gharana
0/0
"Golmaal Gharana" is a quirky and hilarious film about an eccentric joint family living in an ancestral haveli in Lucknow. The story revolves around t...
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Golmaal Gharana
2016
Force 2
6.7/49
ACP Yashvardhan teams up RAW Agent KK to bring down the master mind terrorist, Shiv.
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Force 2
2015
Angry Indian Goddesses
6.827/49
A photographer invites her closest friends to vacation at her family's home in Goa in celebration of her upcoming marriage.
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Angry Indian Goddesses
2017
Commando 2 - The Black Money Trail
5.9/52
India's most wanted Black Money agent, Vicky Chaddha, gets arrested in Malaysia and is kept in a safe house by the Malaysian authorities, along with h...
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Commando 2 - The Black Money Trail
2018
Love Sonia
7.2/33
Inspired by a real story of young girl's journey escape from the world of international sex trafficking.
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Love Sonia
2017
Dobaara: See Your Evil
4.7/3
An official adaptation of the cult horror film Oculus. The film revolves around a haunted mirror. It shows the emotional journey of siblings Natasha M...
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Dobaara: See Your Evil
2017
Nawal the Jewel
5.5/1
Asma Beevi, a 14-year-old Muslim girl is married to an old Arabic man. After few days of the wedding, her husband dies, leaving her pregnant and alone...
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Nawal the Jewel
2016
Chutney
6.167/12
Chutney is a short film written and directed by Jyoti Kapur Das. Produced by Tisca Chopra The stars Adil Hussain and Tisca Chopra in the lead.
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Chutney
2017
Mantra
6.8/5
An Indian business owner struggles to keep his company afloat amid global competition while trying to make up for lost time with his family.
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Mantra
2017
What Will People Say
7.295/220
Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a nor...
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What Will People Say
2018
Bioscopewala
7/7
Based on Rabindranath Tagore’s famous short story 'Kabuliwala', the film is about a young girl’s quest to discover more about her dead father’s friend...
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Bioscopewala
2017
Tigers
7.1/23
Ayan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation he works for after he realizes they knowingly marketed...
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Tigers
2018
Ahare Mon
6/2
A heartwarming collage of inter-connected love stories, Ahare Mon is a romantic drama that revolves around people who are otherwise forbidden to fall...
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Ahare Mon
2018
Aiyaary
5.8/58
An Indian Army officer is compelled to chase down his protege when the latter turns rogue and threatens to disrupt the country’s government and army.
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Aiyaary
2009
Kaminey
6.768/112
Two brothers, as different as chalk and cheese, find their lives intertwined when one puts himself in danger via a `get rich quick' scheme and the oth...
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Kaminey
2017
Raag
5/1
Raag is a 2014 Assamese language drama film, starring Adil Hussain and Zerifa Wahid in the lead roles. The film was directed by Rajni Basumatary and p...
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Raag
2014
Sringkhal
5/1
Sringkhal is a Assamese drama film directed by Prabin Hazarika, based on an Assamese short story by Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia of the same name. Based...
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Sringkhal
2014
Rodor Sithi
4/1
Rodor Sithi is a Assamese language musical drama film directed by Baharul Islam; based on a play titled Beyond the Obvious written by the director him...
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Rodor Sithi
2019
Bombairiya
7/10
It follows the story of Meghna, who gets embroiled in a series of events after her phone gets stolen.
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Bombairiya
2014
Nanak Shah Fakir
8/3
Nanak Shah Fakir is a biographical film on the life and teachings of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak Dev.
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Nanak Shah Fakir
2020
Abyakto
9/1
Abyakto is a poignant tale of a mother and son. The story encapsulates the unusual journey of Indra from his childhood and adolescence to adulthood. A...
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Abyakto
2018
Maati
9/1
Meghla, who after years discovers that her grandmother had been killed in her ancestral home in East Pakistan by a trusted retainer of the family. And...
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Maati
2013
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
6.584/250
In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2019
Kabir Singh
6.329/190
Kabir, a highly intelligent but short-tempered medical surgeon spirals into addiction after his intense relationship with his girlfriend turbulently e...
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Kabir Singh
2019
The Wayfarers
0/0
It is a story of two strangers, perpetually on the fringes of survival. They share a journey and meet a third person carrying an ailing old couple in...
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The Wayfarers
2019
Nirvana Inn
6/1
Jogi, once a dancer but now a boatman, deliberately overthrows his boat full of people to kill himself, but manages to survive alone. Later, Jogi beco...
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Nirvana Inn
2021
The Illegal
10/1
A gritty realistic story about a young film school student from middle-class India who's forced to drop out to support his family while staying in the...
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The Illegal
Ram Part I
0/0
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Ram Part I
2019
Good Newwz
6.525/101
Two couples with the same surnames pursue in-vitro fertilisation and wait for their upcoming babies. Trouble ensues when they find that the sperms of...
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Good Newwz
2014
Zed Plus
6.75/4
Aslam (Adil Hussain), a villager who runs a small business, accidentally meets the prime minister of India, who grants him special security on his req...
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Zed Plus
2011
Gangor
5.5/2
Sent to cover a story on the exploitation of tribal people, Upin meets a woman he believes is the epitome of Indian beauty. His pictures of her change...
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Gangor
2017
Maj Rati Keteki
7/2
After a long gap of more than ten years, renowned writer Priyendu Hazarika returns to the town where once he was inspired to begin his journey as a wr...
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Maj Rati Keteki
2019
Axone
6/17
This bittersweet comedy follows North-east Indians in Delhi who are attempting to organize a wedding party, but soon find everything going wrong.
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Axone
2020
Marichjhapi
0/0
In January 1979, refugees in the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh encounter police surrounding their island.
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Marichjhapi
2020
Pareeksha
5.767/15
The film revolves around the story of an ordinary rickshaw driver in Bihar who aspires and dreams of providing maximum possible quality education to h...
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Pareeksha
2017
Crash Test Aglae
6.147/92
Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocated...
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Crash Test Aglae
2021
Bell Bottom
6.2/46
By the early ‘80s, India had already witnessed multiple airplane hijacks. In 1984, the country was made to face another such challenge. BellBottom, a...
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Bell Bottom
2004
Iti Srikanta
9.667/3
The film portrays the disreputable life of Srikanta and his encounters with various women. After facing many failures in love he becomes a monk.
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Iti Srikanta
2019
MEAL
8/1
A child in school uniform picks up broken remnants from a wall clock. Today happens to be the first day of school for Madhyamik and he is already late...
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MEAL
2023
Footprints on Water
0/0
The story travels through the life of the family, who faces a tough time when their daughter goes missing.
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Footprints on Water
2020
Lord of the Orphans
0/0
Lord of the Orphans is the story of a family (The Palit Family) reeling under a hundred year old curse. It is a unique biopic, a sort of auto-biopic,...
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Lord of the Orphans
2021
India Sweets and Spices
5.7/19
A college freshman confronts her parents’ values in order to understand her own evolving identity.
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India Sweets and Spices
2025
The Confession of Mary
0/0
In 1966 Kerala, the murder of Marie shakes a small community. Father Benedict holds the key to the truth in confession, but revealing it would break h...
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The Confession of Mary
2023
Ek Betuke Aadmi Ki Afrah Raatein
0/0
‘Ek Betuke Aadmi Ki Afrah Raatein’ is an ode to love and alienation in small-town India.
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Ek Betuke Aadmi Ki Afrah Raatein
2025
Mercy
0/0
On the eve of Christmas, Shekhar is faced with the life-altering predicament of having to end life support for his sick mother. His decision permanent...
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Mercy
2025
Secret of a Mountain Serpent
0/0
In a 1990s Himalayan town, teacher Barkha, whose husband serves at the border, develops feelings for enigmatic newcomer Manik amid a community of wait...
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Secret of a Mountain Serpent
2026
Lakadbaggha 2: The Monkey Business
0/0
Sequel to Lakadbaggha (2023). Plot TBA.
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Lakadbaggha 2: The Monkey Business
2015
Hail Democracy!
5/1
The Mess. The Madness. The Mockery of the greatest Democracy in the world by the writers of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
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Hail Democracy!
2026
Koka Deuta Nati Aru Hati 2
0/0
After years of living in America, Prasanta returns to his ancestral village in Assam, carrying cherished memories of his childhood elephant companion....
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Koka Deuta Nati Aru Hati 2
2026
Mukhbir: The Story of a Spy - The Movie
0/0
After the Sino-Indian war, a highly trained Indian spy enters Pakistan on a mission to gather crucial intelligence and stop Pakistan from launching an...
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Mukhbir: The Story of a Spy - The Movie
Indications
0/0
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Operation Ganga
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