Imran Zahid | |
|---|---|
 Imran Zahid | |
| Born | January 11, 1982 Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro district, Jharkhand |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2010–present |
Imran Zahid (born 11 January 1982) is an Indian actor in both theatre and Bollywood. He has acted in Mahesh Bhatt's The Last Salute, based on Muntadhar al-Zaidi's book of the same title and the stageplay The Arth, based on Bhatt's movie Arth . His latest play was Daddy based on Bhatt's movie of the same name.
Imran Zahid was born as in Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro, Jharkhand [1]
He began acting while at DAV Public School, Sector IV in Bokaro Steel City. He then attended Hindu College, Delhi University, from where he got a B.Com degree. [2] [3]
While at university Zahid became involved with a theatre group run by Arvind Gaur. [3] He continued acting while being employed as a professor. [4]
Zahid has said that he had neither the desire nor the need to work in Mumbai. [4] It had been announced in 2010 that he would act in the lead role for Chandu, a film by Mahesh Bhatt about Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation member Chandrashekhar Prasad, who was shot dead on 31 March 1997 during a political rally. [2] He had met Bhatt at a conference in Dubai in 2007 and it was then that Bhatt asked him to take part in the film. [4] The proposed film attracted criticism from students at the university. [5] In 2013, the project was scrapped due to opposition to its production and concerns of potential legal hurdles as a result of the cases related to the assassination being sub judice at the time. [6] The project was revived in 2016 and is currently under production. [7]
He played the role of Muntadhar Al Zaidi in The Last Salute, Bhatt's production based on the shoe-hurling incident involving George W. Bush. [8] Bhatt has proposed to make a film of it with Zahid reprising the role. [9]
It was announced that Zahid would act in Bhatt's Bollywood film Jannat 2 but he subsequently pulled out of the role in favour of playing the part of a narcotics detective in another Bhatt film, Jism 2 . [10]
Zahid played the role of the protagonist - a journalist investigating atrocities - in a Bhatt-produced play, Trial of Errors , that opened on 29 March 2013 in Delhi. [11] [12]
Zahid played the lead role in a stage adaptation of Bhatt of his movie, Arth. [13] Zahid also played the lead role of the father in Mahesh Bhatt theatrical adaptation of his film Daddy . [14] [15] Zahid will play the lead role in a remake of Bhatt autobiographical movie, Janam . [16]
He additionally played the lead role in stage adaptation of bhatt's self-portraying movie Hamari Adhuri Kahani in which Bhatt has sung a cover version of the title track for this play and actor Zahid cheered for his depiction as lead actor. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]
In 2016, Zahid played the part of Protheus in an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona . [22] [23] [24] [25]
The Hindustan Times has said that
Imran Zahid, Mahesh Bhatt's latest discovery, surprises you in more than one way. First, he's not a regular newcomer who's bitten by the 'ambition' bug; he wants to rather fly very very slow with the support of his mentor Mahesh Bhatt. Second he's still based in Delhi, despite having reportedly securing two big films Bollywood films; and third he has a composure of a veteran who's been there and seen it all. [26]
Zahid has said that his preference is to have an arranged marriage and that as of 2010 [update] he was not dating. [27]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Jannat 2 | Inspector Vijay Thakur | Debut film | [28] |
| Jism 2 | a Narcotics Detective and Kabir's assistant | Hindi film | [29] | |
| 2017 | Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain | Ravi | Hindi film | [30] |
| 2019 | Marksheet | Ranjit Don | Hindi film | [31] [32] |
| 2023 | Ab Dilli Dur Nahin | Lead role as Abhay Shukla | [33] [34] |
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