Background
Nawazuddin Siddiqui was born on May 19, 1974, in Budhana, Uttar Pradesh, India, into a zamindari Muslim family of Lambardars. He is the eldest of eight children of the late Nawabuddin Siddiqui, who was a farmer, and his wife, Mehroonisa.
2012
Anil George, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Niharika Singh at an event for Miss Lovely.
2012
Ashim Ahluwalia, Anil George, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Niharika Singh at an event for Miss Lovely.
2012
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Gangs of Wasseypur.
2012
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Gangs of Wasseypur.
2012
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Talaash.
2013
Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Dabba.
2013
Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Dabba.
2013
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Dabba.
2013
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Monsoon Shootout.
2014
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Kick.
2015
Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte at an event for Manjhi The Mountain Man.
2015
Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte in Manjhi The Mountain Man.
2015
Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Shweta Tripathi in Haraamkhor.
2015
Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Shweta Tripathi in Haraamkhor.
2016
Amrita Rao, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Kapil Sharma in The Kapil Sharma Show.
2016
Amrita Rao, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Krishna Abhishek, Sumona Chakravarti, and Kapil Sharma in The Kapil Sharma Show.
2016
Arbaaz Khan, Sohail Khan, Ali Asgar, Sunil Grover, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Kiku Sharda, Amy Jackson, and Kapil Sharma in The Kapil Sharma Show.
2016
Jas Arora and Nawazuddin Siddiqui at an event for Freaky Ali.
2016
Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Amy Jackson at an event for Freaky Ali.
2016
Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Amy Jackson in Freaky Ali.
2016
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Freaky Ali.
2016
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Freaky Ali.
2016
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Raman Raghav 2.0.
2016
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Kiku Sharda, Bharti Singh, Bidita Bag, and Kapil Sharma in The Kapil Sharma Show.
2016
Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Kapil Sharma in The Kapil Sharma Show.
2018
Anurag Kashyap, Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Radhika Apte at an event for Sacred Games.
2018
Anurag Kashyap, Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Radhika Apte at an event for Sacred Games.
2018
Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Kubbra Sait in Sacred Games.
2018
Nawazuddin Siddiqui at an event for Sacred Games.
2018
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anil Charanjeett, and Jatin Sarna in Sacred Games.
2019
Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra in Photograph.
2019
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Thackeray.
Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India
Nawazuddin Siddiqui participating in a Declamation Contest in his university.
Photo of Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Photo of Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Photo of Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Photo of Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Photo of Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Childhood photo of Nawazuddin Siddiqui. his mother and siblings.
(Arms trafficking is taking place in India. An arsenal ent...)
Arms trafficking is taking place in India. An arsenal enters Indian territory via the state of Rajasthan, which makes its way to the interior of India with the help of many middlemen. Bala Thakur, a gun handler in Chandrapur, provides the arms to Veeran, a forest-dwelling brigand. Later, Veeran and his gang attack a wedding bus, mercilessly gunning down every person in it which includes women and children.
https://www.amazon.com/Sarfarosh-English-Subtitled-Aamir-Khan/dp/B00ZGHAD1I/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Perplexed, and frustrated with life in Bombay's corrupt c...)
Perplexed, and frustrated with life in Bombay's corrupt colleges, lecturer Siddharth Archarya, decides to re-locate to a small town called Samaypur, where he feels he will get some satisfaction in teaching youngsters who are not influenced by politics.
https://www.amazon.com/Mudda-Issue-Arya-Babbar/dp/B004R2HPQY/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(When Munna Bhai decides to go to college in order to obta...)
When Munna Bhai decides to go to college in order to obtain an M.B.B.S. degree, he transforms those around him with the "Magic Hug."
https://www.amazon.com/Munna-Bhai-M-B-B-S-Mumait-Khan/dp/B01CCRYDTW/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(The story revolves around two people who miss the last lo...)
The story revolves around two people who miss the last local train at 1:40 am and how it changes the course of their lives forever.
https://www.amazon.com/Chalis-Local-Bollywood-Indian-Cinema/dp/B004R2HPUU/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(Firaaq is a political thriller depicting the 2002 violenc...)
Firaaq is a political thriller depicting the 2002 violence in Gujarat, India, and looks at the repercussion in terms of the effects on the lives of people.
https://www.amazon.com/Firaaq-Naseeruddin-Shah/dp/B07C6XF11W/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(When Raghu learns of who killed his wife and son, he is d...)
When Raghu learns of who killed his wife and son, he is driven by a seething rage to avenge their deaths, leaving no stone unturned to find the murderers.
https://www.amazon.com/Badlapur-Divya-Dutta/dp/B0789VCQTL/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(In Sultanpur, a picturesque village in Pakistan, villager...)
In Sultanpur, a picturesque village in Pakistan, villagers gather to watch a televised cricket match between India and Pakistan. Among them is a pregnant woman Rasia who, after giving birth, names her daughter Shahida after Shahid Afridi, the player who wins the game for Pakistan.
https://www.amazon.com/Bajrangi-Bhaijaan-Kabir-Khan/dp/B073WLFCTW/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(In the 1960s Dashrath Manjhi lived in a small village Geh...)
In the 1960s Dashrath Manjhi lived in a small village Gehlaur near Gaya, Bihar, India with his family including his wife Phaguniya Devi and his son. There was a rocky mountain near his village that people either had to climb across or travel round to gain access to medical care at the nearest town Wazirganj.
https://www.amazon.com/Manjhi-Mountain-Man-Nawazuddin-Siddiqui/dp/B015J2JRKC/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(In 2013, Assistant Commissioner of Police Raghavan Amrend...)
In 2013, Assistant Commissioner of Police Raghavan Amrendra Singh Umbi, a drug addict, visits a Mumbai drug dealer. However, his plan to purchase drugs is foiled - the dealer and another man have been murdered. Investigating the murders the next day, he receives a hammer followed by an anonymous phone call.
https://www.amazon.com/Raghav-SHOBHITA-DHULIPALA-NAWAZUDDIN-SIDDIQUI/dp/B01J5AEGQY/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(The film begins in the mid-1960s and ends in 1991. Raees ...)
The film begins in the mid-1960s and ends in 1991. Raees lives in Fatehpur, Gujarat, a state where alcohol prohibition is in force, and gets involved in illegal liquor trade at a very young age. Along with Sadiq, he works for a gangster Jairaj, who smuggles alcohol illegally by bribing the police.
https://www.amazon.com/Raees-Shah-Rukh-Khan/dp/B06XHHS9QS/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(India's first ever dance-action film starring Tiger Shrof...)
India's first ever dance-action film starring Tiger Shroff as a street dancer who turns dance guru for a gangster, Mahindar played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui!
https://www.amazon.com/Munna-Michael-Nawazuddin-Siddiqui/dp/B079ZJVM26/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(Life of an aspiring boxer springs into action when he fal...)
Life of an aspiring boxer springs into action when he falls hopelessly in love with a high caste, mute girl, who happens to be related to his arch enemy.
https://www.amazon.com/Mukkabaaz-Jimmy-Shergill/dp/B07CZS8QKD/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Nawazuddin Siddiqui was born on May 19, 1974, in Budhana, Uttar Pradesh, India, into a zamindari Muslim family of Lambardars. He is the eldest of eight children of the late Nawabuddin Siddiqui, who was a farmer, and his wife, Mehroonisa.
Throughout his childhood, Siddiqui studied under the lamp; as electricity was a rarity in his village. After his schooling, he moved to Haridwar to pursue his graduation in Chemistry at the Gurukul Kangri University. During his graduation, he used to participate in various extra-curricular activities such as declamation, painting, and drama. Following this, he worked as a chemist in Vadodara for a year, before leaving for Delhi in search of a new job. Once in Delhi, he was instantly drawn to acting after watching a play. In pursuit of securing admission at the National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi, he acted in over ten plays with a group of friends, to fulfill one of the criteria for admission. After graduating from NSD in 1996, he moved to Mumbai.
Siddiqui made his Bollywood debut in the year 1999, with a small role in the Aamir Khan starrer Sarfarosh. He then appeared in Ram Gopal Varma's Shool (1999), Jungle (2000); and Rajkumar Hirani's Munnabhai MBBS (2003). After moving to Mumbai he tried to get work in television serials but did not achieve much success. He did a short film, The Bypass in 2003, where he appeared with Irrfan Khan. Beyond that between 2002-2005, he was largely out of work and lived in a flat that he shared with four other people, and survived by conducting occasional acting workshops. In 2004, which was one of the worst years of his struggle, he couldn't pay any rent. He asked an NSD senior if he could stay with him. The senior allowed him to share his apartment in Goregaon if he was willing to cook meals for him.
In 2009, he appeared in a cameo role in the song "Emotional Atyachar" in the movie Dev D in his role of Rangila, along with his duet partner Rasila. In the same year, he appeared in New York (2009). However, it was his role of a journalist in Anusha Rizvi's Peepli Live (2010), that first got him wide recognition as an actor. In 2012, he appeared in Prashant Bhargava's Patang: The Kite (2012) which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. The film was subsequently released in the U.S. and Canada and garnered much attention with rave reviews from the New York Times.
He then appeared in Kahaani (2012), in which he played the archetypal short-tempered intelligence officer Khan. Anurag Kashyap's gangster epic Gangs of Wasseypur followed, which furthered his fame. He played his first primary role as Sonu Duggal in Ashim Ahluwalia's Miss Lovely, which premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, a role Siddiqui describes as his "most real performance so far." Siddiqui then followed this up with the sequel to Gangs of Wasseypur. In 2013, he played the lead role in the horror flick Aatma. He appeared in Aamir Khan's 2012 release Talash. In 2014, he played lead antagonist Shiv Gajra, in the blockbuster Kick.
In 2015, Siddiqui's films Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Manjhi - The Mountain Man were released, and he was praised for his roles. Siddiqui appeared in a film based in Gujarat, titled Haraamkhor. Siddiqui also portrayed Balasaheb Thackeray in the biopic Thackeray. He will also appear in Motichoor Chaknachoor in 2019 and Bole Chudiyan in 2020.
Siddiqui also appeared as Alex in episode 79 of the TV series CID (2001), in Parsai Kehte Hain (2001), as Sanjay Mishra in Yudh (2014), as Dilly Mahmood in McMafia (2018), and as Ganesh Gaitonde in Sacred Games (2018-2019).
(Perplexed, and frustrated with life in Bombay's corrupt c...)
2003(Firaaq is a political thriller depicting the 2002 violenc...)
2009(When Raghu learns of who killed his wife and son, he is d...)
2015(India's first ever dance-action film starring Tiger Shrof...)
2017(Life of an aspiring boxer springs into action when he fal...)
2018(In the 1960s Dashrath Manjhi lived in a small village Geh...)
2015(A pregnant woman's search for her missing husband takes h...)
2012(The story revolves around two people who miss the last lo...)
2007(In Sultanpur, a picturesque village in Pakistan, villager...)
2015(In 2013, Assistant Commissioner of Police Raghavan Amrend...)
2016(After breaking up with his childhood sweetheart, Paro, a ...)
2010(One hundred years of Hindi cinema is celebrated in four s...)
2013(An innocent simpleton Ram Saran Pandey leaves his village...)
2000(When Munna Bhai decides to go to college in order to obta...)
2003(The film is about the coal mafia in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. I...)
2012(The film is about the coal mafia in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. I...)
2012(The film begins in the mid-1960s and ends in 1991. Raees ...)
2017(Arms trafficking is taking place in India. An arsenal ent...)
1999Siddiqui considers himself not just a Muslim, but a bit of all religions.
Siddiqui is a very shy person; he likes to stay quiet and away from stardom.
During an interview, Nawaz revealed that had he not become an actor, he would be a farmer; as he still holds his ancestral farm fields back at home in Budhana, Uttar Pradesh.
Siddiqui is married to Anjali, and they have a daughter, Shora, and a son, Yaani.