Ashwin Mushran | |
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| Born | Ashwin Mushran Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian [1] |
| Citizenship | Indian [1] |
| Education | The Doon School |
| Alma mater | Hindu College Drama Studio London |
| Occupation(s) | Actor Voice actor |
| Years active | 2006-present |
Ashwin Mushran is an Indian actor and voice over artist. He has appeared in numerous movies and plays. He is also featured in the movie Quick Gun Murugan , as Dr. Django. He also lent his voice into dubbing several foreign media.
Ashwin Mushran was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to a Kashmiri Pandit father and a White British mother of English and German descent. [1] Mushran's paternal family were displaced from Kashmir during the Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the 1990s due to the Islamic militancy. Ashwin studied at The Doon School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand and then graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English Literature from Hindu College, University of Delhi in New Delhi. [2] [3] He then moved to England from India to study acting at the Drama Studio London in Ealing, West London. [4]
Ashwin started out with TV commercials which led to him becoming a cast member of the cult Indian TV show, The Great Indian Comedy Show . From there he moved on to acting in feature films and has acted in many critically acclaimed films such as Lage Raho Munna Bhai , Life in a Metro and Fashion . Ashwin is heavily involved with theatre and is a voice over artiste as well. [5] [2]
He has dubbed for more than 1000 TV commercials and a number of movies in Africa English, and Chinese (both Mandarin and Cantonese)[ citation needed ]; however, he said that he had no desire to dub for the leading men of Bollywood. [6]
Mushran is married, and has a daughter [7]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamaana | Cyrus | |
| Lage Raho Munna Bhai | Hari Desai | ||
| I See You | Dr. Shah | ||
| 2007 | Life in a Metro | ||
| Ek Chalis Ki Last Local | Mr. Bajaj | ||
| 2008 | One, Two, Three | D.M. Pipat | |
| Krazzy 4 | Pranav | ||
| The Mole | The Mob Boss | ||
| Yeh Mera India | Amarjit Singh | ||
| Fashion | Rohit Khanna | ||
| 2009 | Quick Gun Murugun | Dr Django | |
| Kambakkht Ishq | Parmeet | ||
| 2010 | Hum Tum Aur Ghost | Mr Kapoor's Son | |
| Bhoot and Friends | Gora Sa'ab | ||
| 2011 | Always Kabhi Kabhi | Rahul Ghosh | |
| Desi Boyz | Jerry's Lawyer | ||
| 2012 | Love, Wrinkle-free | ||
| 2013 | Settai | Richard | |
| Rise of the Zombie | |||
| 2014 | Main Tera Hero | Angad's Doctor | |
| 2015 | Island City | ||
| 2018 | Sanju | Event manager | |
| 2019 | Total Dhamaal | ||
| 2022 | Bachchhan Paandey | Producer Rakesh Verma | |
| 2023 | Shehzada | Kailash Jindal |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Great Indian Comedy Show | ||
| 2014–2015 | Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyar | Karan Kapoor | |
| 2015 | Peterson Hill | Peterson | |
| 2018 | Kulfi Kumar Bajewala | Roshan Kumar(RK) | |
| 2020 | Maharaj Ki Jai Ho! | Scientist | |
| 2021 | Dhadkan Zindaggi Kii | Jamshed Sherier |
| Year | Title | Role | Channel |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Qubool Hai 2.0 | Asad's coach | ZEE5 |
| 2022 | Escaype Live | Yogi Balla | Disney+ Hotstar |
| 2023 | Rana Naidu | Farzad Soonawala | Netflix |
| Film title | Actor | Character | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dub year release | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Madison | Adam Sandler | Billy Madison | Hindi | English | 1995 | 2005 | |
| Big Daddy | Adam Sandler | Sonny Koufax | Hindi | English | 1999 | 2006 | |
| Mr. Deeds | Adam Sandler | Longfellow Deeds | Hindi | English | 2002 | 2006 | |
| House of Flying Daggers | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Jin | Hindi | Mandarin Chinese | 2004 | 2005 | |
| 50 First Dates | Adam Sandler | Henry Roth | Hindi | English | 2004 | 2005 | |
| Click | Adam Sandler | Michael Newman | Hindi | English | 2006 | 2006 | |
| Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. | Vikram Chatwal | Bunty | Hindi | English Hindi | 2007 | 2007 | Ashwin was called in to dub the dialogues during post-production because of the dissatisfaction of the director with the lines spoken by the actor. Vikram was unable to convey his lines properly due to temporary health problems, despite that the movie was already shot in Hindi as one of the languages. |
| Reign Over Me | Adam Sandler | Charlie Fineman | Hindi | English | 2007 | 2007 | |
| The Warlords | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Jiang Wuyang | Hindi | Mandarin Chinese | 2007 | 2007 | |
| You Don't Mess with the Zohan [8] | Adam Sandler | Zohan Dvir | Hindi | English | 2008 | 2008 | |
| Red Cliff | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Zhuge Liang | Hindi | Mandarin Chinese | 2008 (Part 1) 2009 (Part 2) | 2008 (Part 1) 2009 (Part 2) | |
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Alain Chabat | Napoleon Bonaparte | Hindi | English | 2009 | 2009 | |
| Grown Ups | Adam Sandler | Lenny Feder | Hindi | English | 2010 | 2010 | |
| Jack and Jill | Adam Sandler | Jack/Jill Sadelstein | Hindi | English | 2011 | 2011 | |
| Just Go with It | Adam Sandler | Dr. Daniel "Danny" Maccabee | Hindi | English | 2011 | 2011 | |
| Dragon | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Xu Baijiu | Hindi | Mandarin and Sichuanese (CN/TW) Cantonese Chinese (HK) | 2011 | 2011 | |
| X-Men: Apocalypse | Michael Fassbender | Erik Lensherr / Magneto | Hindi | English | 2016 | 2016 | |
| Assassin's Creed | Michael Fassbender | Callum "Cal" Lynch and Aguilar de Nerha | Hindi | English | 2016 | 2016 | |
| American Hustle | Christian Bale | Irving Rosenfeld | Hindi | English | 2013 | 2018 | |
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | Stanley Tucci | Joshua Joyce | Hindi | English | 2014 | 2014 | |
| Film title | Original voice | Character | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dub year release | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shrek the Third | Conrad Vernon | Rumpelstiltskin | Hindi | English | 2007 | 2007 |
| Program Title | Actor | Character | Dub Language | Original Language | Number of episodes | Original airdate | Dubbed airdate | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sacred Games | Saif Ali Khan | Sartaj Singh | English | Hindi | 16 | India's first web-series Streamed on Netflix | ||
| Money Heist | Álvaro Morte | Sergio Marquina / Professor | Hindi | Spanish | 2017 | 2021 | ||
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