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Naseeruddin Shah is a Actor, Director and Producer Indian born on 20 july 1950 at Barabanki city (Inde)

Naseeruddin Shah

Naseeruddin Shah
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Birth name Naseeruddin Shah
Nationality Inde
Birth 20 july 1950 (74 years) at Barabanki city (Inde)
Awards Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Filmfare Awards

Naseeruddin Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian film and stage actor and director, and a prominent figure in Indian parallel cinema. Shah has won numerous awards in his career, including three National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards and an award at the Venice Film Festival. The government of India has honoured him with the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan awards for his contributions to Indian cinema.

Biography

Shah married Manara Sikri (actress Surekha Sikri's sister) when he was 20 years old, and they had a daughter, Heeba Shah, who is now an actress. The couple however separated, and Manara Sikri and Heeba moved to Iran. He married actress Ratna Pathak in 1982 after the death of his first wife. He has two sons from his second marriage, actors Imaad and Vivaan. He co-starred with Ratna in films like Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na, Mirch Masala and The Perfect Murder.

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Om Puri
Om Puri
(29 films)
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi
(19 films)
Amrish Puri
Amrish Puri
(18 films)
Smita Patil
Smita Patil
(16 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Naseeruddin Shah (166 films)

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Actor

3 Deewarein, 1h55
Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Nagesh Kukunoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Jackie Shroff, Juhi Chawla, Gulshan Grover, Shrivallabh Vyas
Roles Ishaan Mirza
Rating77% 3.894033.894033.894033.894033.89403
Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for murdering his wife too, but he claims that it was an accident where she falls off the sidewalk while they were in the middle of a heated argument. Ishaan (Naseeruddin Shah), a happy-go-lucky man, is also arrested for murder that he commits while in the act of robbery.
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Maqbool
Maqbool (2003)
, 2h12
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Bollywood, Gangster films, Films about royalty
Actors Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Masumeh Makhija
Roles Inspector Purohit
Rating79% 3.996473.996473.996473.996473.99647
The film is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth and with Mumbai underworld as its backdrop. Maqbool (Irrfan Khan) is the right-hand man of Jahangir Khan (alias Abba Ji) (Pankaj Kapoor), a powerful underworld don. Maqbool is grateful and feels a close connection and personal indebtedness to Abba Ji. The movie gains pace with two corrupt police-men (played by Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah) predicting that Maqbool would soon take over the reins of the Mumbai Underworld from Abba Ji. These two thus play a role akin to the three witches in the original play.
Kasam
Kasam (2001)

Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Sunny Deol, Chunky Pandey, Neelam Kothari, Sonu Walia, Sharat Saxena
Rating30% 1.5232051.5232051.5232051.5232051.523205
In aid of seeking revenge for his dad's death, against a bandit called Kala Daku, Shankar team up with two men, a police inspector, Mangal and a run away convict, Vijay. Shankar makes his living by driving a truck while Vijay and Mangal masquerade as villagers to surface as saviors to protect the village against Kala's gang. And then Kala and his men abduct Vijay; now Mangal and the entire police force will have to negotiate with Kala to let Vijay off in exchange for the landlord's son
Moksha
Moksha (2001)

Directed by Ashok Mehta
Genres Drama
Actors Arjun Rampal, Manisha Koirala, Kalpana Pandit., Suresh Oberoi, Mohan Gokhale, Sushma Seth
Roles Dean
Rating60% 3.0492553.0492553.0492553.0492553.049255
The story is about law graduate Vikram Saigal (Arjun Rampal) who is not happy with his lot at all. He is very idealistic and wants to battle corruption and society and change the world.
Monsoon Wedding, 1h54
Directed by Mira Nair
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about marriage
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah, Vasundhara Das, Vijay Raaz, Tillomata Shome
Roles Lalit Verma
Rating72% 3.6478253.6478253.6478253.6478253.647825
The film's central story concerns a father, Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah), who is trying to organize an enormous, chaotic, and expensive wedding for his daughter, Aditi (Vasundhara Das), for whom he has arranged a marriage with a man, Hemant Rai (Parvin Dabas), she has known for only a few weeks. As so often happens in the Punjabi culture, such a wedding means that, for one of the few times in each generation, the extended family comes together from all corners of the globe, including India, Australia, Oman, and the United States, bringing its emotional baggage along.
Hey Ram
Hey Ram (2000)
, 3h22
Directed by Kamal Haasan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Kamal Haasan, Shahrukh Khan, Atul Kulkarni, Hema Malini, Rani Mukherjee, Abbas
Roles Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Rating78% 3.947313.947313.947313.947313.94731
The film is about a protagonist's journey from religious hatred to love with the theme of the partition of Bengal in the background. Its relevance in the present Indian environment clouded by religious extremism was widely unrecognised. This is the story of Saket Ram, as narrated by his grandson. The film takes place as Ram, a retired archaeologist, lies on the deathbed, on 6 December 1999, the 7th anniversary of the destruction of Babri Mosque in Ayodhya.
Gaja Gamini, 2h35
Directed by Maqbool Fida Husain
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Madhuri Dixit, Shahrukh Khan, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Tanvi Hegde, Shilpa Shirodkar
Roles Leonardo da Vinci
Rating45% 2.266112.266112.266112.266112.26611
The central figure of the film is represented by a mysterious figure called "Gaja Gamini" (Madhuri Dixit), who inspires, arouses, and confuses the common man. "Gaja Gamini" is the inspiration behind Leonardo da Vinci's (Naseeruddin Shah) 'Mona Lisa', Kalidas' poem "Shakuntala", and a photojournalist named Shahrukh's (Shah Rukh Khan) photographs. The mysterious "Gaja Gamini" appears as four characters, one of them being Sangeeta, a blind girl from Banaras at the beginning of time, who inspires village women (Farida Jalal, Shilpa Shirodkar, and Shabana Aazmi) to revolt against a male-dominated system and carve a niche for women forever.
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Bhopal Express, 1h40
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Disaster films
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Kay Kay Menon, Vijay Raaz, Nethra Raghuraman, Zeenat Aman
Roles Bashir
Rating73% 3.677423.677423.677423.677423.67742
Set against the gas tragedy in Bhopal, India in 1984, this human drama examines the irresponsible methods of large corporations and the effects of their actions on common people. The night of the tragedy, poison gas clouds from the Union Carbide factory enveloped an arc of over 20 square kilometers killing over 8,000 people in its immediate aftermath and causing multi-systemic injuries to over 500,000 residents. Lest the neighborhood community be "unduly alarmed", the siren in the factory had been switched off, adding to what would become an enduring disaster of immeasurable proportions.
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Sarfarosh
Sarfarosh (1999)
, 2h40
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about terrorism, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood
Actors Aamir Khan, Sonali Bendre, Mukesh Rishi, Naseeruddin Shah, Dinesh Kaushik, Shrivallabh Vyas
Roles Gulfam Hassan
Rating80% 4.047334.047334.047334.047334.04733
Arms trade is taking place in India. An arsenal enters Indian territory via the state of Rajasthan, which makes its way to interior of India with help of many middlemen. Bala Thakur, a gun handler in Chandrapur, provides the arms to Veeran, a forest dwelling brigand. Later, Veeran and his gang attack a wedding bus, mercilessly gunning down every person in it which includes women and children. The government appoints a Special Action Team in Mumbai to trace the roots behind the attack. The team learns about Bala Thakur, but thanks to his informants, Thakur flees before he can be apprehended.
Bombay Boys, 1h45
Directed by Kaizad Gustad
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Gangster films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Naveen Andrews, Rahul Bose, Vinay Pathak, Roshan Seth, Naseeruddin Shah, Luke Kenny
Roles Mastana
Rating62% 3.146073.146073.146073.146073.14607
The three meet each other for the first time at Mumbai's airport and decide to find a place together. In the course of the movie, Krishna finds out that, in order to break into the local film industry, he must first win the (decidedly risky) patronage of Don Mastana (Naseeruddin Shah), a godfather of the Mumbai underworld who's also a film producer. Mastana is a violent man who thinks nothing of impaling a lizard with a knife or shattering the skull of a fellow crime boss for making a pass at his girlfriend.
Sar Utha Ke Jiyo, 2h20
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Gracy Singh, Madhoobala Shah, Raza Murad, Kiran Kumar, Ajay Devgn
Roles Inspector Vijay Khanna
Rating23% 1.198391.198391.198391.198391.19839
Sar Utha Ke Jiyo is an action film starring Naseeruddin Shah in lead role. The film also has Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan, Ayesha Jhulka and Sunil Shetty in Special Appearances.
China Gate
China Gate (1998)

Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Samir Soni, Om Puri, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Danny Denzongpa, Mamta Kulkarni
Roles Maj. Sarfaraz Khan
Rating64% 3.2488353.2488353.2488353.2488353.248835
The story begins with Col. Krishnakant and his ten men who were sacked from the Indian army as they failed in the China Gate mission. After witnessing the brutal slaying of her Forest Officer father, Sunder Rajan, at the hands of dreaded dacoit Jageera, Sandhya goes to Col. and asks for his assistance in bringing an end to Jageera's rule in the Devdurg region. Krishnakant agrees to assist her and summons ten of his fellow officers and subordinates to assist him in this mission. They assemble at Devdurg with the necessary ammunitions and arms to combat Jageera, not realizing that Jageera has influence over the local police detachment, who will prevent Krishnakant and his men to possess any guns and weapons.
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Such a Long Journey, 1h53
Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Kurush Deboo, Vrajesh Hirjee
Roles Major Jimmy Bilimoria
Rating71% 3.583643.583643.583643.583643.58364
Gustad Noble (Roshan Seth) is a Parsi bank clerk who lives with his family in Bombay (Mumbai) just before the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. At first he seems to be a self-centred, self-involved, neurotic man who is so tied up in his own pain for perceived slights both past and present that he cannot seem to connect with either friends or family. He is haunted by memories of a privileged youth and his father's fortune, lost to the machinations of a scheming, unscrupulous uncle. He is baffled by the changes wrought in his eldest son, Sohrab (Vrajesh Hirjee), who is having a difficult coming of age.
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