Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Birth : 1974-05-19, Budhana, Uttar Pradesh, India

History

Nawazuddin Siddiqui is an Indian film actor who works in Hindi cinema. After a period of unnoticed performances in his early career, he received the Special Jury Award at the 2012 National Film Awards and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2013.

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Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Movies

Saindhav
Vikas Malik
The father of a sick child takes on a criminal gang running a pharmaceutical racket.
Haddi
A tale of small town child Hari, who has the desire of transitioning as a woman.
Holy Cow
Heropanti 2
Laila
Babloo is a computer genius and Inaaya is a self-made billionaire. The two fall in love but due to unforeseen circumstances they suddenly part ways as the cybercrime lord, Laila wants him dead.
No Land's Man
Producer
In 2019, a man named Naveen disappears from a memorial park in Sydney while traveling with his girlfriend Cathy. Having arrived in New York two years ago, Naveen finds a job at a restaurant and meets Cathy there. As their relationship deepens, Naveen′s lies become bolder. The man known as Naveen, or Sameer, cannot tell the truth about anything, including his name, nationality, religion, family, and past.
No Land's Man
In 2019, a man named Naveen disappears from a memorial park in Sydney while traveling with his girlfriend Cathy. Having arrived in New York two years ago, Naveen finds a job at a restaurant and meets Cathy there. As their relationship deepens, Naveen′s lies become bolder. The man known as Naveen, or Sameer, cannot tell the truth about anything, including his name, nationality, religion, family, and past.
AK vs AK
Self (voice)
After a public spat with a movie star, a disgraced director retaliates by kidnapping the actor's daughter, filming the search for her in real-time.
Serious Men
Ayyan Mani
Tormented with his 'under-privileged' societal status, a father capitalizes on his son's newfound fame as a boy-genius. Little does he realize that the secret he harbors will destroy the very thing he loves the most.
Raat Akeli Hai
Inspector Jatil Yadav
When a newly married landlord is murdered, a misfit cop’s investigation is complicated by the victim’s secretive family and his own conflicted heart.
Ghoomketu
Ghoomketu
An aspiring writer from a small town in U.P. runs away to Mumbai. He gives himself 30 days to try and prove his worth.
Motichoor Chaknachoor
Pushpinder Tyagi
A woman whose single purpose in life is to marry a foreign-settled groom decides to marry a 36-year-old Dubai-returned professional who is desperate for a bride.
Housefull 4
Ramsey Baba
Three couples who get separated from each other due to an evil ploy, reincarnate after 600 years and meet each other as history repeats itself again and their respective partners get mixed up this time.
Roam Rome Mein
Raj goes to Rome looking for his missing sister Reena. Through the search he discovers the real Reena, things that he never knew about her. He also meets a few magical characters who make him realize who Raj actually is as well.
Making
VICE met up with the directors of Sacred Games, Netflix's first foray into originals in India. Veterans Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane explain their process to us.
Photograph
Rafi
A struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a connection that transforms them in ways that they could not expect.
Thackeray
Balasaheb Thackeray
Based on the life of Keshav Thackeray, an Indian politician who is also known as Balasaheb Thackeray.
Petta
Singaar 'Singaaram' Singh
A hostel warden becomes the target of a dreaded politician and his gangster son, but little do they realise that it is they who should fear him.
Bebaak
Interviewer
Inspired by a true event, Bebaak is the story of Fatin, an economically vulnerable young woman, who gets chastised by a religious authority with blatant misogyny during a scholarship interview.
Genius
MRS (Mr Samar Khan)
An orphan, with a brilliant mind, joins RAW and is burdened by the killing of his entire team. Until he doesn't avenge their death, he can't live in peace with his love. So, he hatches a genius plan.
Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto
In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings.
Mukkabaaz
Baaraat Singer
A low caste boxer trains at a gym controlled by a local Don. Shravan falls for Mishra's niece. The Don does not approve of this match. Shravan strives to win Sunaina's hand in marriage and become a successful boxer while trying to avoid retaliation from the Don.
McMafia
Dilly Mahmood
Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.
Monsoon Shootout
Shiva
A rookie cop joins the crime branch of the Mumbai police department, and on his first assignment is faced with the dilemma of whether he should shoot a murder suspect who is attempting to escape or not.
Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
Babu Bihari
Two contract killer from Uttar Pradesh, Babu Bihari and Banke Bihari who are often paid to bump off the same game, cross each other's path and end up fighting with each other.
Carbon: A Story of Tomorrow
Shah
In dystopian future of 2067, Random a desperate man with an artificial heart, undertakes an illegal Oxygen deal, that goes wrong.
Munna Michael
Mahinder Fauji
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.
Jagga Jasoos
Two-Headed Bashir Alexander (Guest Appearance)
A gifted teenage detective searches for his missing father with his ladylove assistant.
Mom
Daya Shankar "DK" Kapoor
After her stepdaughter is sexually assaulted at a party, a furious mother sets out to destroy the lives of the four perpetrators who walked free.
Raees
IPS Jaideep Ambalal Majmudar
Set in the early ’80s and ’90s in Gujarat, India, ‘Raees’ is a fictitious story of a crime lord named Raees, who builds an entire empire from scratch, and a police officer who is determined to bring him down.
Lion
Rama
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Freaky Ali
Ali
A debt collector becomes a major sensation when he takes on the rich man's sport of golfing.
Raman Raghav 2.0
Raman
A corrupt cop and a serial killer obsessed with a psychopath from the '60s get caught up in a ruthless cat-and-mouse game.
Te3n
Martin Das
A grandfather, police officer and a priest join hands to investigate and find a missing child.
Haraamkhor
Shyam Tekchand
When a vulnerable new student finds comfort in her brash teacher, their academic relationship takes a manipulative and troubling turn.
Manjhi: The Mountain Man
Dashrath Manjhi
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.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Chand Nawab (Pakistani Reporter)
A young mute girl from Pakistan loses herself in India with no way to head back. A devoted man with a magnanimous spirit undertakes the task to get her back to her motherland and unite her with her family.
Lateef
Lateef
Lateef is a middle-class man who aspires to become a doctor. But, this dream is shattered when he gets arrested in a drug raid.
Badlapur
Liak
After his wife and son are killed, a young man finds out the man behind the murder and fights against him, along committing some big mistakes.
Mister Come Tomorrow
Producer
Imtiaz divorced his wife in anger but he realizes his mistake soon and wants his wife back, he can only get her back by marrying her to someone until her new husband consummate the marriage (as per the Halala law ) first. So he sacrifices her for and arranges her marriage to someone else . But very next day of Nikha (Marriage) when Imtiaz went back to get her wife back . Her new husband is not ready to divorce her as he want to enjoy the benefits of this marriage .Now he is fooling Imtiaz that he haven't consummate the marriage still he can not take her wife back . Imtiaz struggles daily to get her wife back .
Kick
Shiv Gajra
An adrenaline junkie walks away from a whirlwind romance and embraces a new life as a thief, though he soon finds himself pursued by veteran police officer and engaged in a turf war with a local gangster.
Miss Lovely
Sonu Duggal
A Hindi feature film set in the lower depths of Bombay's "C" grade film industry. Miss Lovely follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sleazy horror films in the mid-1980s.
Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa
Mohammad Anwar
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.
Liar's Dice
Nawazuddin
The film follows Kamala, a young woman from Chitkul village and her girl child Manya, who embarks on a journey leaving their native land in search for her missing husband. Along this journey she encounters Nawazudin, a free spirited army deserter who helps them to get to their destination with his own selfish motive.
The Lunchbox
Shaikh
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Shorts
Exploring a common theme 'India Is a Visual Journey', 'Shorts' is a compilation of 5 short films that focus on things that are quintessentially Indian.
Meridian Lines
A poor road worker sets off a chain of events that bring karmic balance to seven very troubled strangers.
Bombay Talkies
Purandar
One hundred years of Hindi cinema is celebrated in four short stories showcasing the power of film.
Aatma
Abhay
A single mother fights against the supernatural in order to hold on to her daughter.
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.
Talaash
Tehmur
A cop, investigating the mysterious death of a filmstar, meets a sex-worker, while he faces some personal problems psychologically. The mystery connects these people in a way, that ultimately changes their lives.
Chittagong
Nirmal Sen
Jhunku, a 14-year-old youth in 1930s British Bangladesh, embarks on a journey to determine where he belongs.
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2
Faizal Khan
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
Faizal Khan
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.
Patang
In the old city of Ahmedabad, amid India's largest kite festival, a family duels, spins and soars like the countless kites in the skies above.
Kahaani
Mr. Khan
Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.
Paan Singh Tomar
Gopi Jadav
Paan Singh Tomar goes from celebrated runner to star brigand and rebel when life after sports fails to unfold as planned.
Peepli Live
Rakesh
Natha decides to commit suicide to get the farmers' compensation. However, the media and politicians learn about his intentions and descend on their village to capture the rare event.
New York
Zilgai
New York is a contemporary story of friendship set against the larger than life backdrop of a city often described as the centre of the world. Omar has gone abroad for the first time in his life and soon enough he begins to see and love America through the eyes of his American friends - Sam and Maya. It is the story of these three friends discovering a new world together.
Firaaq
Hanif
Firaaq is an Urdu word that means both separation and quest. The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories. The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a campaign that took place in Gujarat, India, in 2002. It traces the emotional journey of ordinary people- some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who choose to watch silently.
Dev.D
Band Singer
Because they come from different castes, the son of a tax collector and his true love are not allowed to marry, sending them down divergent paths.
Summer 2007
Digambar
Thinking that the internship they've just signed up for will be a breeze, five disaffected medical students receive a rude awakening. Hoping to be stationed near Goa, enjoy and have some fun, they instead find themselves in a remote place.They're assigned to a rural village in India crippled by poverty, malnutrition and sickness.
Black & White
Tahir Tayyabuddin
Rajan Mathur (Anil Kapoor) is a Professor in Urdu literature in Dr. Zakir Hussain's College. He resides in Chandni Chowk with his activist wife, Roma Mathur (Shefali Shah). Professor Mathur comes across a young boy called Numair Qazi (Anurag Sinha) who introduces himself as a victim of communal riots in Gujarat.
Aaja Nachle
Dhan Kuber
Dia is a divorced mom living in New York and must go back to India after she receives news that her guru is on his death bed. When she arrives she finds he is gone and has left her the responsibility of saving and reviving the Ajanta Theater where she used to dance. The problem is that the political officers want it torn down and turned into a shopping mall. The storyline follows Dia and her challenge to stand up for what she believes in and fight the cause to the end, while trying to win back the love and support of the people of the town whom she walked out on ten years prior.
Manorama Six Feet Under
Chhaila
Satyaveer is an engineer suspended for allegedly accepting a bribe. However, Satyaveer, proud author of a tawdry and thoroughly unsuccessful crime novel, is approached by a woman named Manorama to investigate her husband, whom she suspects of having an affair.
Ek Chalis Ki Last Local
Ponnappa's Brother
Comic thriller about two people who miss the last local train and how missing the train changes the course of their lives forever.
Family: Ties of Blood
Aryan’s Friend #2
The story is on the concept of karma and bad deeds. It follows Viren Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan), underworld don who rules over India. His son Abhir (Sushant Singh) is spoilt and believes he can do anything due to his father's power. When Viren's enemy Khan (Kader Khan) attacks Abhir, Viren demands revenge.
Black Friday
Asgar Mukadam
Bombs tear through Bombay, wreaking havoc and polarising the citizens. With perpetrators at large, the state launches a massive drive to unmask the truth behind these events.
Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
Pickpocketer
A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.
The Bypass
First bandit
A bypass somewhere in Rajasthan. Two muggers encounter a corrupt police officer after committing murder; nobody is trustworthy. Who is the most violent?
Jungle
Khabri
A couple is kidnapped and held for ransom until one of the kidnappers' associates is released from custody.
Shool
Waiter
Police Inspector Samar Pratap Singh is transferred to Motihari, in the Indian state of Bihar, along with his wife, Manjari and a daughter. He is honest and diligent and these attributes sets him up against his superior - the District Superintendent of Police, as well as his subordinates and fellow officers.
Sarfarosh
Terrorist
When terrorists kill a cop's brother and disable his father, he fights back against the smuggling of guns and drugs which plagues his country.
Noorani Chehra
Noorani Chehra is an Indian film directed by Navaniat Singh
Shoebite
Shoebite is the story of a man in his early 60s named John Pereira who sets out on a journey of self-discovery. The film has been mired in legal troubles since 2009 and has never been publicly screened.
अफ़वाह
The film’s underlying premise is purportedly based on the subject of rumor-mongering and spreading of false information in Alwar, a subject that has been a hot topic for a long time.
Sangeen
Tiku Weds Sheru
Shiraz 'Sheru' Khan Afghani
Adbhut
Jogira Sara Ra Ra
Bole Chudiyan
Gopal Rathore