Dulquer Salmaan filmography

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Dulquer Salmaan is an Indian actor, playback singer and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam and Telugu films in addition to Tamil and Hindi films. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in business management from Purdue University and worked as a business manager in Dubai before pursuing a career in acting. Dulquer is a recipient of several awards including, five Filmfare Awards South , a South Indian International Movie Award and a Kerala State Film Award.

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After a three-month acting course at the Barry John Acting Studio, Salmaan made his acting debut with Second Show (2012). He has since established himself as a leading actor in Indian cinema with several critically and commercially successful films including Ustad Hotel (2012), ABCD (2013), Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi (2013), Vaayai Moodi Pesavum (2014), Bangalore Days (2014), Vikramadithyan (2014), O Kadhal Kanmani (2015), Charlie (2015), Kali (2016), Jomonte Suvisheshangal (2017), Mahanati (2018), Kurup (2021) and Sita Ramam (2022). [1]


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List of Dulquer Salmaan films and roles
YearTitleRoleLanguageNotesRef.
2012 Second Show Harilal "Lalu" Malayalam Malayalam Debut [2]
Ustad Hotel Faizal "Faizy" Abdul Razak [3]
Theevram Harsha Vardhan [3]
2013 ABCD: American-Born Confused Desi Jones Isaac [4]
5 Sundarikal Injured stuntman [5]
Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi Kassi [6]
Pattam Pole Karthikeyan "Karthi" [7]
2014 Salalah Mobiles Afzal [8]
Vaayai Moodi Pesavum / Samsaaram Aarogyathinu Haanikaram Aravind Tamil / MalayalamBilingual film; Tamil Debut [9] [10]
Bangalore Days Arjun "Aju"Malayalam [11]
Vikramadithyan Adithyan Menon "Aadhi" [12]
Njaan K. T. N. Kottoor & Ravi Chandrasekhar Dual role [13]
2015 100 Days of Love Balan K. Nair & Rocky K. Nair [14]
O Kadhal Kanmani Aditya "Aadhi" VaradarajanTamil [15]
Charlie CharlieMalayalam [16]
2016 Kali Siddharth [17]
Kammatipaadam Krishnan [18]
Annmariya Kalippilaanu AngelCameo [19]
2017 Jomonte Suvisheshangal Jomon T. Vincent [20]
Comrade in America Aji "Ajipan" Mathew [21]
Parava ImranExtended Appearance [22]
Solo Shekhar, Trilok, Siva and Rudra RamachandranBilingual film; Quadruple Roles [23]
Malayalam
Tamil
2018 Mahanati Gemini Ganesan Telugu Telugu Debut [24]
Karwaan Avinash Rajpurohit Hindi Hindi Debut [25]
2019 Oru Yamandan Premakadha Mohanlal John Kombanayil alias LalluMalayalam [26]
The Zoya Factor Nikhil KhodaHindi [27] [28]
2020 Varane Avashyamund Bibeesh P. "Fraud"MalayalamAlso producer [29] [30]
Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal SiddharthTamil [31]
Maniyarayile Ashokan ArjunMalayalamAlso producer; cameo [32] [33]
2021 Kurup Gopikrishnan aka Sudhakara Kurup aka Alexander Also producer [34]
2022 Hey Sinamika YaazhanTamil [35]
Salute Aravind KarunakaranMalayalamAlso producer [36] [37]
Sita Ramam Lieutenant RamTelugu [38] [39]
Chup: Revenge of the Artist Danny aka Sebastian GomesHindi [40]
2023 King of Kotha Kotha Raju alias Raju MadrassiMalayalamAlso producer [41]
2024 Kalki 2898 AD CaptainTeluguCameo appearance [42]
Lucky Baskhar BaskarFilming [43]

Television

List of Dulquer Salmaan television credits
YearTitleRoleLanguageNetworkRef.
2023 Guns & Gulaabs Arjun VarmaHindi Netflix [44]

Music video

List of Dulquer Salmaan music video credits
YearTitlePerformersRef.
2023"Heeriye" Jasleen Royal , Arijit Singh [45]

Other crew positions

YearTitleRoleRef.
2014 Koothara Trailer narrator [46]
2016 Mudhugauv Narrator [47]
2017 Pokkiri Simon [48]
2019 Margamkali Baby (voice)
2020 Maniyarayile Ashokan Co-producer; Narrator [49]
2021 Maara Voiceover in trailer [50]
2022 Upacharapoorvam Gunda Jayan Distributor , producer [51]
Puzhu Distributor [52]
Pyali Co-producer; distributor
Rorschach Distributor
2023 Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam [53] [54]
Kannur Squad
Kaathal The Core

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