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Birthday: Nov 11, 1966
Place of Birth: Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Arif Zakaria

Arif Zakaria (born 11 November 1966) is an Indian actor. He has had roles in many films, beginning with his debut film Darmiyaan (1997), 1947 Earth (1998), Dance like a man (2004), and biographical projects such as Mardana and the controversial Nanak Shah Fakir. Arif Zakaria's uncle Rafiq Zakaria was a veteran politician from the Indian National Congress. His brother Asif Zakaria is also an INC politician and cousin Fareed Zakaria is an American journalist. Zakaria completed his graduation from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics. Zakaria married Namrata Sharma, a Fashion Writer, in 2002. The couple divorced in 2010. Zakaria began acting in theatre while in college and later moved on to work in television and films. He acted in numerous television serials like Chunauti, Karambhoomi, Mrityudand, Dhund, Aarzoo, Campus, Kaali - Ek Agnipariksha, etc. Arif acted in diverse roles in films like Darmiyaan, Hero, Asambhav and Dance Like a Man (English). Zakaria travelled the globe since 2005 with the Australian musical show Merchants of Bollywood, performing major roles in the production across Europe, China, France, Poland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia (the last season in Sydney in 2010). The actor portrayed Rustom Sethna in Deepa Mehta's Earth/1947 and Major Dhillon in Shyam Benegal's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero. He also appeared in Home Delivery: Aapko... Ghar Tak, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Deewaar and the Shah Rukh Khan film My Name is Khan. In 2011, Arif played the ghost that haunts the female protagonist in Vikram Bhatt's Haunted and was appreciated for the ghastly portrayal of a piano teacher falling in love with his young student who gets murdered while making advances towards her and rapes her as a ghost, which forces her to commit suicide in the movie. He played the role of a police officer in Jism 2, starring Sunny Leone, appeared in Lootera and in Krrish 3 as Dr. Varun Shetty. Other releases of the actor are Dee Saturday Night, Darr At The Mall, Blue Mountain (all 2014) and Nanak Shah Fakir and Ishq Forever (both 2015). He is also acting in the play Gardish Mein Taare, directed by Saif Hyder Hasan, which is based on the life of Guru Dutt. In 2015, Zakaria produced a children's film "Pinti Ka Sabun" for the Children's Film Society of India; (CFSI) this film is directed by Pramod Pathak. In 2017, Arif was seen in Vikram Bhatt's web series Spotlight - Web series as famous actor/director/producer Dev Bannerjee. Featured in the short film Aamad - written and directed by Neeraj Udhwani for the Terribly Tiny Tales web portal. Arif Zakaria also worked in Raazi, directed by Meghna Gulzar, along with Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal and the film Ahaan, directed by first-time director Nikhil Pherwani; a tender story of a young man suffering from down syndrome. He is slated to shoot for an English film Swords and Sceptres, a re-telling of the story of the Rani of Jhansi. Plays the role of Gaus Khan. Shooting commenced from October 2017 in Jaipur. At present the actor is playing the role of Gen. Bakhtiyar in a romance-thriller series Qubool Hai 2.0 that will be streamed on all ZEE5 platform. Source: Article "Arif Zakaria" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Earth Rustom Sethna 1998
My Name Is Khan Faisal Rahman 2010
420 IPC Sinha 2021
A Thousand Desires Like These Daryll 2003
Agent Vinod Suicide bomber 2012
Jism 2 Guru Saldanah 2012
Kaun Pravin Tambe? Jamil Jalali 2022
Banaras Inspector Satpal Shukla 2006
Mastaney Wazir 2023
Krrish 3 Dr. Varun Shetty 2013
Lootera Bajpai 2013
Darr @ the Mall Manchanda 2014
Mission Raniganj DG Om Chakravarti 2023
Shootout at Wadala Sadiq 2013
Haunted-3D Professor Iyer 2011
Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home Rajan 2004
Asambhav Dabral 2004
Shirdi Sai Baba Young Sai Baba 2001
Poorna Col. Khan 2017
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon 2005
Raazi Abdul 2018
Rahenge Sadaa Gardish Mein Taare Dev Dutt 2017
Anna Master 2016
Rokkk Healer 2010
Footpath Shyam 2003
Nanak Shah Fakir Bhai Mardana 2014
Home Delivery P3P 2005
War Utpal Bisbas 2019
Darmiyaan: In Between Immi / Mazhudin Khan / Sitara 1997
Jannat 2 Police Chief 2012
Gul Makai Sufi Mohammed 2020
Dance Like a Man Jairaj Parekh 2004
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi Gaus Khan 2019
Ahaan Ozzy 2021
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Deva (voice) 2018
Series Cast Year
Leila Dr. Iyer 2019
Qubool Hai 2.0 General Bakhtiyar Farouqi 2021
Cutting Pyaar 2019
Freedom at Midnight Muhammad Ali Jinnah 2024
Spotlight Devv Benerjee 2017
Avrodh: The Siege Within Ali Raza Khan 2020
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