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Naseeruddin Shah is a film actor of the Indian film industry who is successful in both mainstream movies as well as in art films. He was born on 20th July 1950 in Delhi. He graduated from the Aligarh Muslim University with arts. He passed from the National School of Drama in 1973 and in the same year he enrolled in the Film and Television Institute of India. He married Ratna Pathak Shah and has a daughter Heeba Manara Shah. Both his wife and daughter have ... graduated from the National School of Drama.
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Naseeruddin Shah has been giving performances with his theatre troupe, Motley in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Ahmadabad and Bangalore. He has directed plays and stories written by Ismat Chughtai, Saadat Hasan Manto, Premchand and Kamtanath. His production, ‘Macbeth’ had the biggest cast he has ever directed, comprising 70-odd people. Shah feels that there is a great paucity of good Hindustani plays. Most have to be translated from regional languages like Gujrati or Bengali.
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Born in 1950 and educated at the National School of Drama in Delhi, Naseeruddin Shah is now one of the icons of New Indian Cinema and is arguably one of the finest actors in the world today. He has gained a fair amount of success in commercial cinema too. Naseeruddin Shah's first film was Shyam Benegal's Nishant (1975). His other notable films include Shyam Benegal's Manthan and Bhumika (1976), Saeed Mirza's Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai (1980), Mrinal Sen’s Khandhar (1983) and Sai Paranjpye’s Sparsh (1979). His comedy roles in films like Mandi, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron and Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho (1983) have endeared him to the Indian public. Naseeruddin Shah has ... played and directed English and Hindi plays.
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Naseeruddin Shah dubbed for his forthcoming Hollywood film “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” for an urgent dubbing session at Bombay’s Insync Studios on 26th June 2003. The session was conducted via telephone from Los Angeles and the digital files were uploaded using the internet. The sound recording was available within the hour for use for the mixing of the film by the engineers in LA. This is a unique collaboration between Hollywood and Bollywood and in their conversation with Nandoo Bhende, director, Insync Studios, 20th Century Fox’s John Larsen and Paul Apted were thankful for his help in finishing their film on schedule. They were pleasantly surprised with the expertise and quality of the Indian engineers at Insync studios. The film will be released worldwide on July 11th.
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Like many of the other actors of his genre, Naseeruddin Shah was first noticed by Shyam Benegal. He acted in Benegal's Nishant (1975), Manthan and Bhumika (1976). One of his most intense performances was given in Saeed Mirza's Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai ("What makes Albert Pinto angry?", 1980). In the movie, he plays a garage mechanic from Goa who dreams of the expensive cars that he repairs but that are far beyond his reach. The film is set in a Catholic setting, primarily because Mirza did not have the courage to tackle Muslim issues. Naseeruddin Shah has ... acted for other New Indian Cinema directors including Mrinal Sen (Khandan, 1983) and Sai Paranjpye (Sparsh, 1979).
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After three decades in the performing arts, the glint in Naseeruddin Shah’s eyes has not faded. The first performance of Jean Anouilh’s adaptation of Sophocles’ political drama “Antigone” is just over at the Ranga Shanka ra Theatre Festival 2007, Bangalore. And attired in a loose, buttoned-down off-white kurta, he is in the green room.
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