Arif Zakaria

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.

Tentang

Stage Name: Arif Zakaria

Peran: Acting

Reputasi: 0.3325

Jenis Kelamin: Laki-laki

Tanggal Lahir: 1966-11-11

Lokasi Lahir: Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Riwayat Perfilman

2024

Freedom at Midnight

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

2023

Mission Raniganj

DG Om Chakravarti

2023

Mastaney

Wazir

2022

Kaun Pravin Tambe?

Jamil Jalali

2021

420 IPC

Sinha

2021

Ahaan

Ozzy

2021

Qubool Hai 2.0

General Bakhtiyar Farouqi

2020

Avrodh: The Siege Within

Ali Raza Khan

2020

Gul Makai

Sufi Mohammed

2019

War

Utpal Bisbas

2019

Leila

Dr. Iyer

2018

Raazi

Abdul

2017

Spotlight

Devv Benerjee

2017

Poorna

Col. Khan

2016

Anna

Master

2014

Nanak Shah Fakir

Bhai Mardana

2014

Darr @ the Mall

Manchanda

2013

Krrish 3

Dr. Varun Shetty

2013

Lootera

Bajpai

2012

Jism 2

Guru Saldanah

2012

Jannat 2

Police Chief

2012

Agent Vinod

Suicide bomber

2011

Haunted-3D

Professor Iyer

2010

Rokkk

Healer

2010

My Name Is Khan

Faisal Rahman

2006

Banaras

Inspector Satpal Shukla

2004

Asambhav

Dabral

2004

Dance Like a Man

Jairaj Parekh

2003

Footpath

Shyam

2001

Shirdi Sai Baba

Young Sai Baba

1998

Earth

Rustom Sethna

1997

Darmiyaan: In Between

Immi / Mazhudin Khan / Sitara