Naseeruddin Shah was born on 20 March 1950. He is a National Film Award-winning Indian film actor and director. Naseeruddin Shah did his schooling at St. Anselm's Ajmer.
Shah has seen success in both mainstream Bollywood cinema as well as in Parallel Cinema. Naseeruddin Shah also appeared in many international films most notably playing Captain Nemo in the Hollywood comic book adaptation The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
With the 1980 film Hum Paanch, Shah started his career in bollywood. Naseeruddin's next major success in mainstream films was the 1986 multi-starrer film Karma where he acted alongside veteran Dilip Kumar.
Sole hero films such as Ijaazat (1987), Jalwa (1988) and Hero Hiralal (1988) followed. In 1988 he played opposite his wife Ratna Pathak as Inspector Ghote, the fictional detective of H. R. F. Keating's novels in the Merchant-Ivory English language film The Perfect Murder.
Naseeruddin acted in several multi-starrer Bollywood films as well such as Ghulami (1985), Tridev (1989) and Vishwatma (1992). In 1994, he acted as the villain in Mohra, his 100th film as an actor. In 2000 his dream of playing Mahatma Gandhi was realised when he played Gandhi in Kamal Hassan's critically acclaimed Hey Ram which focused on the assassination of Gandhi from the assailant's point of view.
Shah also starred in international projects such as Monsoon Wedding in 2001 and a Hollywood comic book adaptation The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003 (co-starring Sean Connery) where he played the role of Captain Nemo. He worked in an Indian adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, titled Maqbool. in 2004. Shah then went on to work in The Great New Wonderful. He was most recently seen in A Wednesday.
Naseeruddin also made his Pakistani film debut in the critically-acclaimed and controversial film Khuda Ke Liye by Shoaib Mansoor where he played a short, yet powerful cameo.
In 2003, the Government of India honored Naseeruddin shah with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian cinema.
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