Nawazuddin Siddiqui Birthday!

A man who made it big in the Indian film industry with his continuous hard work, persistence, and passion – here is Nawazuddin Siddiqui Birthday for you! He was born on May 19 in the year 1974 in Buddhana which is a small town in the Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh and is the eldest of the eight siblings.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui graduated from the National School of Drama of New Delhi in 1999. Post which he moved to the city of dreams Mumbai to pursue a career in acting. He made his debut in Bollywood in the very same year wherein he had a small part to play in the movie Sarfarosh which also starred Aamir Khan. Post that, he played several roles on the silver screen but remained underrated for the longest time.

However, a star always finds its way to shine and he proved himself to be one of the best gems that the Indian industry could boast of.

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Here are some of his best performances in Bollywood:

• BLACK FRIDAY

One of Siddiqui’s best performances till date was in the 2004 release Black Friday which was an Anurag Kashyap movie based on the infamous Bombay attacks of 1993. The movie received large scale appraisal and was also went on to win Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival which was held in Los Angeles.

GANGS OF WASSEYPUR – PARTS 1 AND 2

Another Anurag Kashyap movie series, Gangs of Wasseypur – I and II were a huge hit at the box office. Nawazuddin Siddiqui played the character of Faizal Khan, a goon and son of a goon. Who turns out to be the most wanted man in Wasseypur as the movies take their course. His dialogue from the movie ‘Baap ka, Bhai ka, Dada ka, Sab ka badla lega re tera Faizal’ was hard hitting and a blockbuster!

• BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN

Nawazuddin played the role of a journalist from Pakistan in this Salman Khan starrer which released in the year 2015. His character was found to be hilarious and witty by the audience and even though he was in a supporting role throughout the movie. His performance attracted eyeballs enough to earn him appreciation.

• BADLAPUR

Nawazuddin’s role in this 2015 Varun Dhawan starrer was a negative yet powerful one. Not only was it given a green signal by critics, some even went on to say that the protagonist was overshadowed by his character. As Nawazuddin delivered a spectacular performance.

• RAMAN RAGHAV 2.0

A role played to perfection, Nawazuddin played an extremely demanding part in this psychological dark thriller. Even though he played a murderer in the movie, his role garnered immense appreciation. Nawaz has went on record to say that he had started to fear himself. While he made preparations for the role and it was actually a disturbing phase for him.

Here are some lesser known interesting facts about the actor while tell a different tale about him from that most people know of:

• Apart from the mainstream lead roles and supporting actor roles that he has played. He was also cast as a junior artist in movies like Munna Bhai MBBS.
• Before starting his career in acting, Nawzuddin Siddiqui has ventured into careers you wouln’t think of him to enter. He was once a watchman! Once hee also was a chief chemist in SCME Petrochemicals in Baroda for three years. He had always intended to study microbiology and chemistry in order to become a pathologist. We all know fate had different plans for him!
• While Siddiqui was still a watchman, he joined a theatre group to follow his passion of acting. For him, his motto has always been to never give up on dreams.
• Nawaz had only seen five bollywood movies before he came to Mumbai to pursue a career in acting.
• He got married to Anjali Siddiqui at a very young age while he was still a struggler in the Bollywood industry.
• His idol in acting is Ashish Vidyarthi. He is inspired by his style of acting and tried to incorporate some elements in his own performances.
• Everytime he used to appear at Cannes. He would be spotted sporting the same very suit! It might just be his lucky wear as speculated by some.

Nawaz’s early performances: 

• The late Irrfan Khan and his co-star in the movie New York cried at one of Nawazuddin’s gut wrenching emotional performance in the movie.
• With a knack for acting since childhood, Siddiqui used to imitate random film scenes while standing in front of the mirror.
• During his time at National School of Drama at Delhi, he performed tasks like serving tea to the performing artistes. And other crew members of the theatre and also sweeping the stage before performances.
• He once enacted to be a tree in a play in Delhi where he was supposed to be standing still with his hands being raised as branches for two whole hours. Nawaz only chose to play his part as the play was concerned with Manoj Bajpayee as the protagonist, one whom he admired.
• As big as he has made it in Bollywood, he hails from a poor family. He has survived living upon tea and glucose biscuits for a long stretch. He once fainted out of hunger too.
• Nawaz dreams of playing the role of Prince Salim of Mughal-e-Azam someday.

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