MY FAVORITE ARTIST : Nawazuddin

Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays the character of 

Dashrath Manjhi in Manjhi - The Mountain Man

Nawazuddin Siddiqui was born on 19 May 1974 in Budhana, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. Nawazuddin grew up in a famer's family with eight siblings in Uttar Pradesh. Before attaining the fame and success he now has, the dark-skinned actor had to make his living working as a chemist and as a watchman.

In pursuit to secure admission at 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, he moved to Mumbai. 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.

Nawazuddin made his Bollywood debutin 1999, with a small role in Aamir Khan starrer, Sarfarosh. After that, he played a messenger in the movie Jungle; later he hung out at film studios and shootings but only got stereotypical roles. He shared screen along with Sunil Dutt and Sanjay Dutt in Munnabhai MBBS in the opening scenes where he tries to pick the pocket of Sunil Dutt. 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 actor, Irrfan Khan. Beyond that between 2002-05, he was largely out of work, and lived in a flat he shared with four other people, and survived by conducting occasional acting workshops.

His appearance in Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday (2007) paved way for other powerful roles. In 2009, he appeared in acameo role in hit song 'emotional atyachar' in the movie Dev D in his moniker as Rangila along with his duo Rasila (known together as Patna ke Presley). Nawazuddin was noticed in the film 'New York'. However it was his role of a journalist in Aamir Khan Productions's Peepli Live (2010), that first got him recognition as an actor. He became a household name post Kahaani(2012), where he played the archetypal short-tempered intelligence officer Khan.Anurag Kashyap's gangster epic Gangs of Wasseypur followed which furthered his fame. In 2015, Siddiqui's filmsBajrangi Bhaijaan and Manjhi - The Mountain Man released and he was praised for his roles

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