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Zakir Hussain is a Actor and Musician Indian born on 9 march 1951 at Mumbai (Inde)
Zakir Hussain (Hindi: ज़ाकिर हुसैन, Urdu: ذاکِر حسین; born 9 March 1951) is an Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1988, and the Padma Bhushan in 2002, by the Government of India. He was also awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1990, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama. In 1999, he was awarded the United States National Endowment for the Arts's National Heritage Fellowship, the highest award given to traditional artists and musicians.
He was named an Old Dominion Fellow by the Humanities Council at Princeton University, where he resided for the 2005–2006 semester as full professor in the music department. He was also a visiting professor at Stanford University. He now resides in San Francisco.
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Nationality Inde
Birth 9 march 1951 at Mumbai (Inde)
Death 15 december 2024 (at 73 years)
Awards Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Birth 9 march 1951 at Mumbai (Inde)
Death 15 december 2024 (at 73 years)
Awards Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1988, and the Padma Bhushan in 2002, by the Government of India. He was also awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1990, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama. In 1999, he was awarded the United States National Endowment for the Arts's National Heritage Fellowship, the highest award given to traditional artists and musicians.
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Zakir Hussain married Antonia Minnecola, a Kathak dancer and teacher, who is also his manager. They have two daughters, Anisa Qureshi and Isabella Qureshi. Anisa graduated from UCLA and is trying her hand in video production and film making. Isabella is studying dance in Manhattan.He was named an Old Dominion Fellow by the Humanities Council at Princeton University, where he resided for the 2005–2006 semester as full professor in the music department. He was also a visiting professor at Stanford University. He now resides in San Francisco.
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Chaalis Chauraasi (2012)
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Ravi Kishan, Shweta Bhardwaj, Rajesh Sharma
Roles Toby
Rating60%
Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante (2006)
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Konkona Sen Sharma, Rajit Kapur, Irrfan Khan, Sandhya Mridul, Amey Pandya, Zakir Hussain
Rating62%
Heart surgeon Dr. Viren Goenka (Rajit Kapur), his wife Sanjana (Konkona Sen Sharma) and their seven-year-old daughter Anishka (Jhanak Shukla) live in Mumbai. Their joys have just multiplied with Viren being honored with a prestigious award for his contribution to the medical world.
Black Friday (2004)
, 2h47Directed by Anurag Kashyap
Genres Drama, Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Gangster films
Actors Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastava, Imtiaz Ali, Pratima Kazmi, Kishor Kadam
Roles Nand Kumar Chougale
Rating83%
On 9 March 1993 a small-time thug, Gul Mohammed, is detained at the Nav Pada police station and confesses to a conspiracy underway to bomb major locations around the city. The police dismiss his confession and, three days later, Bombay is torn apart by a series of explosions leaving 257 dead and close to 1,400 injured. Investigators discover that the bombs were made of RDX, smuggled into the city with the aid of customs officials and the border police.
Saaz (1997)
, 2h28Directed by Sai Parānjpye
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Shabana Azmi, Raghubir Yadav, Aruna Irani, Zakir Hussain, Zakir Hussain, Ayesha Dharker
Rating65%
Mansi, the elder sister, has to take up professional singing after her father's death and to support the family. The film focuses mainly on the female characters and traces how the younger sibling Bansi regains her identity.
Heat and Dust (1983)
, 2h13Directed by James Ivory
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor, Christopher Cazenove, Susan Fleetwood, Zakir Hussain
Roles Inder Lal, Anne's landlord
Rating64%
In 1982, Anne, an English woman, intrigued by the fate of her great-aunt Olivia, whose letters and diary she has inherited, interviews the elderly Harry Hamilton-Paul, who in his youth was Olivia's close friend when they were both living in India.
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For Real (2009)
Actors Sameer Dharmadhikari, Adil Hussain, Sarita Choudhury
Rating66%
6 year old Shruti (Zoya Siddiqi Hassan) believes her mother, Priya, (Sarita Choudhary) has been replaced by an alien from the Orion galaxy. She turns to her brother (Sriharsh Sharma) for help, but he doesn't believe her. Her father as always is so wrapped up in his work that he remains unavailable to her. Unable to bear the absence of her real mother Shruti decides to set out and get her real mother back.
Parzania (2005)
, 2h2Directed by Rahul Dholakia
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Sarika, Corin Nemec, Rajendranath Zutshi, Parzaan Dastur, Asif Basra
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating74%
Allan (Corin Nemec), an American, arrives in Ahmedabad searching for answers, to find internal peace and to understand the world and his troubled life. He chooses India as his school and Gandhi as his subject of his thesis. It is here that he meets the Pithawala family — Cyrus (Naseeruddin Shah), his wife Shernaz (Sarika), son Parzan (Parzan Dastur) and daughter Dilshad (Pearl Barsiwala). The Pithawalas being Parsis follow Zoroastrianism. Through them and the teachings of an Gandhian, Allan starts to find peace of mind.
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)
, 2hDirected by Aparna Sen
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Musical films, Road movies, Bollywood
Actors Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma, Bhisham Sahni, Surekha Sikri, Anjan Dutt, Bharat Kaul
Roles Music
Rating78%
Meenakshi Iyer (Konkona Sen Sharma), with her infant son, Santhanam, embarks on a bus journey to return to her husband, from her parents' place. At the bus station, Meenakshi and Raja Chowdhury (Rahul Bose) get introduced to each other through a common friend. Raja, a wildlife photographer, is requested by Meenakshi's parents to look after their daughter and baby grandson during the journey.
The Mystic Masseur (2001)
Directed by Ismail Merchant
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Om Puri, Aasif Mandvi, Ayesha Dharker, Jimi Mistry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Zohra Sehgal
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating58%
The semi-mystical novel by V. S. Naipaul moves between farce and acerbic social commentary on Trinidad, the country of his birth. The characters are mainly members of Trinidad's South Asian subculture and community. The protagonist is a frustrated writer of Indian descent (Ganesh Ramsumair) who rises from poverty on the back of his dubious talent as a 'mystic' masseur - a masseur (Pundit Ganesh) who can cure illnesses. In the end he becomes a successful colonial politician (G. Ramsay Muir).
Everybody Says I'm Fine! (2001)
, 1h43Directed by Rahul Bose
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Koel Purie, Rahul Bose, Pooja Bhatt, Boman Irani, Anahita Uberoi, Suchitra Pillai
Rating59%
The film revolves around a small group of elite Mumbaikars whose lives converge at a hairdresser's salon. The protagonist Xen (Rehaan Engineer) owns the salon and has a unique gift of connecting with the minds of his clients and reading their thoughts while at work. Most of his customers maintain a facade of normality in order to gain semblance and hide their tumultuous lives to some extent.
Vanaprastham (1999)
, 3h19Directed by Shaji N. Karun
Origin German
Genres Drama
Actors Mohanlal, Suhasini Maniratnam, Kalamandalam Kesavan, Bindu Panicker, Raveena Ravi
Roles Music
Rating81%
The story revolves around a male Kathakali dancer Kunhikuttan (Mohanlal), an admirable and respected performer but a member of a lower caste. He struggles to come to terms with the rejection and estrangement of his father, a member of an upper caste who denies his son. Poor, unhappy, and stuck in an arranged marriage that provides no relief, he gets by for the sake of his daughter. One night, whilst performing as Arjuna from the epic Mahabarata on stage, his dance is witnessed by Subhadra (Suhasini), a well educated member of an upper caste family. Defying the norms of India's rigid caste system, they have a son, but it soon becomes clear that Subhadra loves the character Arjuna from his stage performances, and not Kunhikuttan the dancer. More in love with the valiant, noble hero of the Mahabarata, than the dancer Kunhikuttan, she rejects him and refuses to let him see his son. Denied access to his son, and rejected by his father, Kunhikuttan returns to the stage, leaving behind his hero roles to play demonic characters, reaching within the dark corners of his mind, becoming increasingly resentful and full of anger, until one last dance which brings the feature to a stunning end.
Saaz (1997)
, 2h28Directed by Sai Parānjpye
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Shabana Azmi, Raghubir Yadav, Aruna Irani, Zakir Hussain, Zakir Hussain, Ayesha Dharker
Rating65%
Mansi, the elder sister, has to take up professional singing after her father's death and to support the family. The film focuses mainly on the female characters and traces how the younger sibling Bansi regains her identity.
In Custody (1994)
, 2h6Directed by Ismail Merchant
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Sushma Seth, Amjad Khan, Tinnu Anand
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Miss Beatty's Children (1992)
, 1h52Directed by Pamela Rooks
Genres Drama
Actors Jenny Seagrove, Faith Brook, D. W. Moffett, Barry John, Rituraj Singh
Roles Music
Rating60%
The film is set in 1936 in South India, when Jane, an English schoolteacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a Christian missionary, who runs a mission school, and works towards young girls from being sold into temple prostitution. She has Kamla Devi, a senior temple woman as her opponent. Once when Mabel has gone away Jane finds herself trapped in a local controversy. She rescues an ANglo-Indian girl and takes her to Ooty, but back in the town she is accused of kidnapping. However she manages to find help with an American doctor, Alan Chandler. Eventually she adopts Amber, and rescues several more children.
Heat and Dust (1983)
, 2h13Directed by James Ivory
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor, Christopher Cazenove, Susan Fleetwood, Zakir Hussain
Roles Music Director
Rating64%
In 1982, Anne, an English woman, intrigued by the fate of her great-aunt Olivia, whose letters and diary she has inherited, interviews the elderly Harry Hamilton-Paul, who in his youth was Olivia's close friend when they were both living in India.