Adil Hussain

Birthday: 1963-10-05
Birthplace: Goalpara, Assam, India
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
		Riding on the Moon Boat
		Golmaal Gharana	Mr. Khanna
		Ram Part I	Chithambaravel
	2026-11-06	Lakadbaggha 2: The Monkey Business
	2026-04-19	52 Blue
	2025-08-28	Secret of a Mountain Serpent	Manik Guho
	2025-05-23	The Confession	Krishna Swamy
	2025-05-05	Mercy	Father Joel
	2024-08-02	Ulajh	Dhanraj Bhatia
	2024-06-02	The Umesh Chronicles
	2023-10-27	Otta
	2023-09-22	Ek Betuke Aadmi Ki Afrah Raatein
	2023-06-30	Sergeant	Haider Ali
	2023-05-13	Footprints on Water	Raghu
	2023-02-03	Dr. Bezbaruah 2	Dr. Bezbaruah
	2023-01-25	A Knock on the Door	Hari
	2022-10-10	Max, Min and Meowzaki	Ramesh Mahadevan
	2022-10-08	The Storyteller	Ratan Garodia
	2022-06-15	Child of Empire	Ishar Das Arora
	2021-11-19	India Sweets and Spices	Ranjit Kapur
	2021-08-19	Bell Bottom	Santook
	2021-03-23	The Illegal	Papa
	2020-12-31	Marichjhapi
	2020-07-26	Pareeksha	Buchchi Paswan
	2020-07-17	Lord of the Orphans	Father
	2020-01-31	Abyakto	Rudra
	2019-12-27	Good Newwz	Dr. Anand Joshi
	2019-11-20	Lorni - The Flaneur	Shem
	2019-10-07	The Wayfarers	Lakhua
	2019-10-06	Nirvana Inn	Jogiraj
	2019-10-02	Axone	Guest Appearance
	2019-06-20	Kabir Singh	College Dean
	2019-04-27	MEAL	Father
	2019-01-11	Bombairiya	Pandya
	2018-11-29	2.0	Home Minister
	2018-09-14	Love Sonia	Shiva
	2018-07-13	Maati	Jamil
	2018-06-22	Ahare Mon	Purnendu Pahari
	2018-05-25	Bioscopewala	Robi Basu
	2018-02-16	Aiyaary	Retd. Colonel Mukesh Kapoor
	2017-10-27	Maj Rati Keteki	Priyendu Hazarika
	2017-10-06	What Will People Say	Mirza
	2017-08-18	Nawal the Jewel
	2017-08-02	Crash Test Aglae	Shankar
	2017-05-19	Dobaara: See Your Evil	Alex Merchant
	2017-03-17	Mantra	Man from Jharkhand
	2017-03-02	Commando 2 - The Black Money Trail	Vicky Chadda
	2017-02-07	Raag
	2016-11-28	Chutney	Viriji
	2016-11-18	Force 2	Brijesh Yadav
	2016-09-26	The Violin Player	The Stranger
	2016-09-02	Mukti Bhawan	Rajiv
	2016-03-11	Feast of Varanasi	Arjun
	2015-12-18	Har Har Byomkesh	Zamindar
	2015-12-04	Angry Indian Goddesses	Police Superintendent
	2015-11-14	Parched	Mystic Lover
	2015-10-30	Main Aur Charles	Amod Kanth
	2015-10-10	Kothanodi: The River of Fables	Devinath
	2015-09-11	Yatchan	Selvam/Vetri
	2015-07-29	Umrika	Agent de l’Immigration
	2015-05-29	Unfreedom	Devraj Singh
	2015-04-25	Hail Democracy!	Major Baruah
	2014-11-28	Zed Plus	Aslam Puncturewala
	2014-11-08	Tigers	Bilal
	2014-11-07	Rodor Sithi
	2014-10-17	Sringkhal
	2014-10-03	Sunrise	Joshi
	2014-05-16	The Xposé	Rajan
	2014-05-14	Nanak Shah Fakir	Rai Bullar
	2013-04-24	The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Mustafa Fazil
	2013-04-19	Lessons in Forgetting	Jak
	2013-04-04	Lootera	K. N. Singh
	2012-11-20	Life of Pi	Santosh Patel
	2012-09-21	English Vinglish	Satish Godbole
	2012-03-23	Agent Vinod	Colonel
	2011-01-01	Gangor	Upin
	2010-01-29	Ishqiya	Vidyadhar Verma
	2009-08-14	Kaminey	Flight Purser
	2004-06-04	Iti Srikanta	Srikanta
	2003-09-02	Calendar Girls	Jem's Friend 1
	2003-06-05	In Othello