Pankaj Tripathi

Pankaj Tripathi

Birth : 1976-09-05, Belsand, Bihar, India

History

Pankaj Tripathi is an Indian actor who appears predominantly in Hindi films. Famous for his natural acting, he debuted in 2004 with a minor role in Run and Omkara and has since worked in more than 40 films and 60 television shows. Tripathi's breakthrough came in 2012 for his supporting role in the Gangs of Wasseypur film series. He has since received critical appraisal for multiple films, including Fukrey (2013), Masaan (2015), Nil Battey Sannata (2016), Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017), Newton (2017), Fukrey Returns (2017) and Stree (2018). For Newton, Tripathi earned several awards including a National Film Award – Special Mention.

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Pankaj Tripathi
Pankaj Tripathi

Movies

Murder Mubarak
ACP Bhavani Singh
When a gym trainer is murdered at an elite Delhi club, a wily investigator unravels the sordid secrets of its ultrarich members to find the killer.
Metro... In Dino
Sequel to Life in a Metro.
Main Atal Hoon
Atal Bihari Vajpayi
A biopic of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was the 10th Prime Minister of India and held the post for three times while serving the country. He was awarded Bharat Ratna and Padma Vishnu, and he was the statesman of the BJP.
Fukrey 3
Pandit
Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga
Gangaram
Inspired by the real events that took place in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve where people used to leave their elderly family members for tigers to prey on, and then claim compensation from the administration, it is a story of Gangaram, a patriarch of a farmer family entrenched in poverty because of three consecutive failed monsoons. He enters the forests to adopt the infamous Tiger practice to give up his life so that his family can have two square meals, however, what follows next is a series of unprecedented events.
Bachchhan Paandey
Bhaves Bhoplo
A budding director tries to research a merciless gangster for making a film on gangsterism. But her secret attempts to conduct the research fail when she gets caught for snooping.
83
PR Man Singh
On the 25th of June 1983, the Lord’s Cricket Ground witnessed one of the biggest underdog stories in the history of sports. Fourteen inspired players - led by a man's self-belief and conviction - fought against all odds and orchestrated India’s greatest sporting triumph by beating the two-time World Champions West Indies.
Bunty Aur Babli 2
Inspector Jatayu Singh
Bunty and Babli are forced out of retirement as a new pair of cons emerge, doing robberies in their name with their trademark sigil across India.
Mimi
Bhanupratap Pandey
An aspiring actress in a small town in Rajasthan agrees to bear a child for a visiting couple seeking a surrogate mother, but her experience takes an unexpected turn when they refuse to have the child anymore.
Mumbai Saga
Devraj Chaudhary
The film, set in the 1980s and 90s, chronicles the transformation of Bombay to Mumbai. The story is a cat and mouse game between a deadly don, Amartya Rao, who doesn’t think twice before killing, and there’s nobody who could stop him and a cop, who is dogging his every step.
Laali
A lonely laundry worker from the suburbs of Kolkata finds companionship in an unclaimed red dress, which triggers memories from the past. Over its short running time, Laali encapsulates the quintessential Bollywood romance of two individuals from unequal backgrounds for whom love breaks all barriers.
Kaagaz
Bharatlal
Kaagaz (transl. Paper) is a biographical drama about a farmer, Lal Bihari's 19-year struggle to make himself come alive again when he is declared dead in Government records by interests keen to take over his assets.
Shakeela
Salim
A biopic based on the life of adult movie star Shakeela, who ruled the South Indian film industry for over two decades and starred in many controversial and bold films.
Ludo
Rahul Satyendra Tripathi (Sattu)
Ludo is about the butterfly effect and how, despite all the chaos and crowd of the world, all our lives are inextricably connected. From a resurfaced sex tape to a rogue suitcase of money, four wildly different stories overlap at the whims of fate, chance and one eccentric criminal.
The World of Mirzapur
Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Divyenndu, Shweta Tripathi Sharma with other cast and crew talk about what went behind the creation of Mirzapur 2, all the struggle and ideation.
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
Anup Saxena
Inspired by the life of a fearless young officer who made history by becoming the first Indian female Air Force officer to fly in a combat zone during the 1999 Kargil War
Extraction
Ovi Mahajan Sr.
Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord.
Angrezi Medium
Tony
When his daughter decides to further her studies in London, a hardworking Haryanvi businessman does everything in power to make her dreams come true.
Gul Makai
Beitullah Mehsud
Fear is like an elastic band. You stretch the band inside of your mind and it keeps expanding, till one moment it snaps or you cut it for it to break. 'Gul Makai' is such a story, a story of courage that overcame fear and oppression. 'Gul Makai' accounts the courageous journey and struggle of Nobel laureate Malala Yousufzai, from her humble upbringing in the Swat Valley to her becoming the champion for free education to all. 'Gul Makai' is a small tribute to this lion hearted girl who is in every essence a global citizen championing a cause that transcends boundaries, caste, religion and geography.
Drive
Hamid
A notorious thief allies with a street racer for a grand heist involving an elaborate game of deceit with authorities, who have their own dirty secrets.
Super 30
Shri Ram Singh
Based on life of Patna-based mathematician Anand Kumar who runs the famed Super 30 program for IIT aspirants in Patna.
Kissebaaz
Chuttan Shukla[
Once partners-in-crime and wannabe prominent political figures, Shukla and Pandey turn foes when tragedy befalls. But, who is pitting them against one another, and why?
The Tashkent Files
Gangaram Jha
The Tashkent Files is a thriller that revolves around the mysterious death of India's 2nd Prime Minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri and attempts to uncover if he had actually died a natural death, or, as alleged, was assassinated.
Luka Chuppi
Babulal
The story of a television reporter in Mathura who falls in love with a headstrong woman.
Bhaiaji Superhitt
Builder Gupta
A kind-hearted goon decides to get his wife back by making a film on their love story, while his arch nemesis tries to thwart his plans.
Yours Truly
Vijay
Amidst the daily din of the local trains in Calcutta, a lonely working woman in her late fifties finds herself falling in love with the voice of the railway announcer.
Stree
Rudra
Set in the town of Chanderi, Stree is based on the urban legend of Nale Ba that went viral in Karnataka in the 1990s, and features Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao in pivotal roles.
Kaala
SP Pankaj Patil
Karikaalan consistently fights to keep the people of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, safe from the clutches of mighty politicians and the land mafia don, Hari Dhadha.
Phamous
Tripathi
An epic journey of love in Chambal, amongst the clash of power and the roar of guns.
Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain
Feroz
Angrezi Mein Kehte Hein is a family drama and explores changing relationships between a middle aged couple. Its about the realization that sometimes just loving someone is not enough and expressing that love is equally important.
Harjeeta
HARJEETA, is based on the remarkable true story of Harjeet Singh, an Indian professional field hockey player, who captained the Indian squad at the 2016 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup. His family, like so many families in this country was struggling with the biggest problem of our nation, poverty. How he comes a humble background, from being dumped by his love interest, just because he didn't have a cup at home to serve her tea, to winning the world cup for India. The Indian Hockey team that year went unbeaten throughout the tournament, eventually winning the Gold medal after 15 years and giving birth to a true sports legend.
Fukrey Returns
Pandit
A year after the first movie, the four friends are enjoying their lives to the fullest, get in trouble once again with Bholi, who is released from prison earlier than expected and is broke.
Bareilly Ki Barfi
Bitti's Father
Bitti Mishra is a bohemian Bareilly girl who falls deeply in love with Pritam Vidrohi, an author because she admires his progressive way of thinking. Finding him though proves to be as hard as looking for a needle in the haystack. So Bitti seeks the help of the local printing press-owner, Chirag Dubey on her journey of love.
Gurgaon
Kehri Singh
A real estate baron Kehri Singh manages 'Preet Real Estate' which he runs in his daughter's name whom he consider's to be his lucky mascot. A sidelined and insulted Nikki Singh is ignored by his father and is considered to be insolent, useless and unlucky. In order to pay off a huge debt to a local criminal, Nikki sets off a chilling event that forces his father to revisit his dark past and confront a brutal truth.
Munna Michael
Balli
An expert dancer Munna who idolizes the king of pop, reluctantly tutors a gangster until their developing bond gets disrupted by their common romantic interest towards the same woman.
Mango Dreams
Salim
A Hindu doctor with dementia and a Muslim auto rickshaw driver form an unlikely friendship as they cross India in search of the doctor's childhood home.
Newton
Aatma Singh
A government clerk on election duty in a conflict-ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.
Anaarkali of Aarah
Rangeela
Hailing from Aarah in Bihar, Anarkali is an item girl, famous for her vocals, suggestive dance moves and innuendo laden lyrics. She enjoys her stardom and revels in the lusty glances. The singer acknowledges that she is no saint and even makes peace with the hatred she evokes among civilised society but what she refuses to tolerate is being exploited in public by an influential politician.
Coffee with D
Girdhari
A celebrated journalist interviews one of the world's most dreaded terrorists, "D".
Global Baba
A conman finds refuge in becoming a baba and carries out his various criminal activities under the guise. A policeman, a journalist and politicians get entangled in his Web of deceit.
Dilwale
Anwar
Raj is a Mafia member. One day he meet a girl (Meera) while chasing by his rival gang and falls in love with her. Later he finds out that this girl is the daughter of the leader of his rival gang. Yet their love story continues until he was shot by his girlfriend upon a deep misunderstanding. After that incident these two lovers lives separate until their siblings fallen in love. With this new love story their paths intertwines again.
Manjhi: The Mountain Man
Ruab
After his wife passes away trying to cross a mountain, Manjhi, out of sheer rage, sets on a quest to carve a road through the treacherous mountain.
Masaan
Sadhya Ji
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
Nil Battey Sannata
Principal Shrivastava
Behind the magnificent Taj Mahal lies a cluster of dingy homes where Chanda (35), a domestic help, lives with her 14-year-old daughter Appu. Chanda aspires and dreams that her daughter will study and embrace a better fate. When Appu tells her she wants to quit school and become a maid like her, Chanda takes a strong decision: she will herself go back to school, and even join the class of her daughter.
Singham Returns
Altaf Khan
Singham Returns is an Indian action film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Reliance Entertainment. The sequel to the 2011 film Singham, actor Ajay Devgn reprises his role from the previous film, as well as co-producing the project, while Kareena Kapoor Khan plays the female lead.
Gunday
Lateef
The lives of Calcutta's most powerful gangsters - Bikram and Bala, changes when Nandita enters it. Then a counter-force takes charge and a thriller unfolds.
Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa
Amol
Anwar, a maverick detective works in a small detective agency in Kolkata. He has a habit of getting involved in the personal lives of his cases. In one such instance, he takes a case in his rural homeland and is forced to confront his own romantic tragedy.
Doosukeltha
Minister Dilleeswara Rao
Chinna (Vishnu) is a very witty and resourceful person who knows how to get things done. As kids, Chinna and Piccheshwar (Vennela Kishore) have a tiff and Piccheshwar leaves the village in a huff. Piccheshwar’s outraged grandfather (Kota Srinivasa Rao) orders the execution of Chinna’s family, forcing them to flee as well. As the years go by, Chinna grows into a tall and fearless young fellow. He applies for a job as a journalist and he is sent on an assignment by his boss Avatar (Posani). The assignment is to conduct a sting operation on Minister Dilleeswara Rao (Pankaj Tripathi). Chinna succeeds in capturing incriminating footage, but he is caught and thrashed by the minister’s goons.
Maazii
Rathiji
Tarun and his wife Shrishti are living a happy life with there daughter . One day to save the Honor of a woman, Tarun accidentally kills two gangsters. After this his black past unfolds and starts haunting his present life. Tarun has to go back to his roots and get out of his past to make his family secure and happy.
Fukrey
Pandit
The paths of four dream-chasing college friends cross with an array of colourful characters, from a tough-talking Punjabi female don to a Jugaad Baaz college watchman. Mayhem ensues.
Gangs of Wasseypur - Making Uncut -  The Roots of Revenge from Wasseypur
himself
The complete making of ultimate revenge saga "GANGS OF WASSEYPUR". Returning to childhood, returning to our heartland, returning to the music in a journey through the making of Gangs Of Wasseypur. An extensive, in-depth account of the making of the film through the eyes of Anurag kashyap, the cast and the crew of Gangs of Wasseypur.
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2
Sultan Qureshi
It’s the sequel and the final chapter in the bloody lives of the avenging ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. Sardar Khan’s sons are at war with Ramadhir Singh’s men; and the knives clash and the bullets flash; till either drops dead.
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
Sultan Qureshi
Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of the decade, Shahid's son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to get his father's honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.
Agneepath
Surya
A young boy's father gets killed unexpectedly by a fierce crowd. After fifteen years, the boy comes back to seek his vengeance.
Chillar Party
Dubey, minister Bhide's manager
A gang of innocent but feisty kids who lead carefree lives in Chandan Nagar colony, take on the big bad world of politics when one of their friend's life is endangered.
Raavan
A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister, but later falls in love with her.
Shaurya
Major Virendra Rathore
Maj. Siddhant Chaudhary, an Indian Army lawyer, attempts to defend Capt. Javed Khan who is accused of killing a decorated officer. The problem is that Khan does not wish to be defended and freely admits to his crime.
Mithya
A two-bit actor faces challenges after he is asked by Police to impersonate a look-alike gangster.
Religion
Suryaprakash
The story is based in Banaras and is about a Hindu Priest Chaturvedi who follows the scriptures to practice Hindu religion. When a child is abandon by a woman and brought in his house by his daughter - after initial hesitation but due to requests from his wife - the family adapts the child; only to know after 4 years that the child is a Muslim. The family gives away the child and Chaturvedi engulfs himself in the purification process to cleanse his body, mind and soul due to contact with a Muslim soul. By the time, Chaturvedi thinks he is fully purified – the child reappears – seeking refuge, due to Hindu- Muslim riots. This is the time Chaturvedi finally realizes that the true religion is - religion where humans help humans – humanity.
Omkara
Kichlu
Half-caste bandit Omkara Shukla abducts his lady love, Dolly Mishra, from her family. Thanks to his cleverness, he gets away with the kidnapping. A conspiracy, however, forms against him when he denies his right-hand man, Langda Tyagi, a promotion. Ultimately, this plot threatens not only his relationship with Dolly, but their lives and those of their associates as well.
Apaharan
Story of a tumultuous and complex relationship between a father (Mohan Agashe) and son (Ajay Devgan), set against the backdrop of a thriving kidnapping industry in the Hindi heartland of Bihar.
Run
This action movie is filled with romance and adventure. As Abhisek fights for his life against the forces of crime and injustice, he meets Bhoomika, who captures his heart.
Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s third Hindi film
An investigative drama with a heartwarming story of a dysfunctional family coming together.
OMG 2