Adil Hussain

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