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MASOOD AKHTAR

Languages known: Hindi, Urdu, Bengali & English.

Date of Birth: 5th September, 1959

Height: 5’5”

Other Names: Nil

Nationality: Indian

Alma Mater: SSC – St. Anthony’s College, Kolkata, HSC – Bhavanipur Education Society College

Occupation: Actor

Years Active: 1979 till date

Spouse: Qamar Gazal

Children: Md. Zaid and Shaad Akhtar

THEATRE: Active association with IPTA – Indian People’s Theatre Association (Mumbai) since 1980 and currently the General Secretary of IPTA

FILMOGRAPHY

1. MR.X - K A Abbas (1986)

2. NAKHUDA - Dilip Nayak

3. KAHAN KAHAN SE GUZAR GAYE - M.S. Sathyu

4. KALKA - Loksen Lalwani

5. AAGMAN - Muzaffar Ali

6. PAAR - Gautam Ghosh

7. LEKIN - Gulzar

8. FAKIR - Gautam Ghosh

9. SARDARI BEGUM - Shyam Benegal

10. UNDYING CITY - Aparna Sen

11. SALIM LANGDE PE MAT RO - Saeed Mirza

12. HUM TO MOHOBBAT KAREGA - Kundan Shah

13. BAGH BAHADUR - Buddhadev Dasgupta

14. UTTARA - Buddhadev Dasgupta

15. TARGET - Sandip Ray

16. MAIN AZAD HOON - Tinu Anand

17. FALAK - Shashilal Nair

18. EK CHOTI SI LOVE STORY - Shashilal Nair

19. ONE TWO KA FOUR - Shashilal Nair

20. PHIR BHI DIL HAI HINDUSTANI - Aziz Mirza

21. MR & MRS IYER - Aparna Sen

22.  ANOKHA MOTI - Tapan Sinha

23.  RAAZ - Vikram Bhatt

24.  SAMAY - Robby Grewaal

25. DUBAI RETURN - Aditya Bhattacharya

26. YATRA - Gautam Ghosh

27. DEV - Govind Nihalani

28. CHALTE CHALTE - Aziz Mirza

29. WELCOME TO SAJJANPUR - Shyam Benegal

30. WELL DONE ABBA - Shyam Benegal

31. SALAM-E-ISHQ - Nikhil Advani

32.  B.B.D BAAG - Anjan Dutta

33. BHOOMI - Avik Mukherjee

34. DAUGHTER OF THE EAST - Tapan Sinha

35. OM SHANTI OM - Farah Khan

36. ROAD TO SANGAM - Amit Rai

37. PEEPLI [LIVES] - Anusha Rizvi

38. TERE BIN LADEN - Abhisekh Sharma

39. AISHA - Rajshree Ohja

40. PATIALA HOUSE - Nikhil Advani

41. YE SALI ZINDAGI - Sudhir Mishra

42. EK THO CHANCE - Saeed Mirza

43. KAHAANI - Sujoy Ghosh

44. RAM LEELA - Sanjay Leela Bhansali

45. SATYAGRAHA - Prakash Jha

46. HATE STORY-2 - Vikram Bhatt

47. HORROR STORY - Vikram Bhatt

48. ANWAR KI KAHAANI - Buddhadev Dasgupta

49. KILL DILL - Shaad Ali

50. (under production) - Shashi Lal Nair

51. KATTI BATTI - Nikhil Advani

52. MIRZIYA - Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra

53. TE3N - Ribhu Das Gupta

54. MIRCHI MALINI - Pratim D. Gupta

55. CHIPPA - Safdar Rahman

56. BANSURI

57. BRAHMASTRA- AYAN MUKHERJEE

BENGALI FILMS

1. UTTARAN - Sandip Ray

2. BAMBAYR BOMBAYTE - Sandip Ray

3. EK TUKDA CHAAND (TV Film) - Partho Sen

4. PATAL GHAR - Daadu

5. FALTU - Anjan Das

6. MATHAY MODON (TV Film) - Joyshree

7. MONCHAYA - Amit Samanta

8. ASTRA - Tathogata

9. KHUSHBOO - Nehal

10. KHANCHA - Raja Sen

11. KHAAD - Kaushik Ganguly

12. LORAI - Parambrata Chatterjee

13. DHUMKETU - Kaushik Ganguly

14. HAAMI - Nandita Roy & Shibhuprasad Mukhopadhay

15. SITAARA - Ashish Roy

16. KISHORE KUMAR Jr. - Kaushik Ganguly

ENGLISH FILMS

1.  CITY OF JOY - Roland Joffe

2.  THE PEACOCK  SPRING - Christopher Morahan

3. THE 100 FOOT JOURNEY - Steven Speilberg Production

WEB SERIES

1.	TYPEWRITER - NETFLIX

2.	JAMUNA PAAR - AMAZON PRIME

TELEVISION SERIALS (Hindi)

1.  NUKKAD  - Saeed Mirza, Kundan Shah, Aziz Mirza

2.  INTEZAAR - Saeed Mirza, Kundan Shah, Aziz Mirza

3.  MIRZA GHALIB - Gulzar

4. KAYAR - M.S.Sathyu

5. SATYAJIT RAY’S PRESENT - Sandip Ray

6. SWABHIMAAN - Mahesh Bhatt

7. KAHIN DER NA HO JAYE - Lekh Tandon

8. KUM KUM - Bag Films

9. SAHIB BIWI GULAM - Sahara TV

10. BIKHRI AAS NIKHRI PREET - Lekh Tandon

11. AAHAT / C.I.D / SHAPA - Fireworks

12. SAMVIDHAAN - Shyam Benegal

13. ZINDAGI ABHI BAAKI HAI MERE GHOST - Ravi Ojha Productions

14. JAANA NA DIL SE DOOR - Yash Patnaik

15. PRISONERS OF WAR (P.O.W) - Nikhil Advani

16. SAVDHAAN INDIA - SONY

17. MANN ME HAI VISHWAAS - Rahul Bose

18. SERIES OF CRIME PATROL - SONY

TELEVISION SERIALS (Bengali)

1. SHEHNAIE - Agni Dev

2. ERAO SHOTRU - Anjan Choudhry

3. NEER BHANGA JHOR - Ravi Ojha

AD FILMS 1. DETTOL SOAP - Neo Films

2. APOLO AMAZER TYRE - Black Magic

3. ANCHOR WIRE - Prahlad Kakad

4. PARLE SWEETS - Prahlad Kakad

5. WHEEL ACTIVE DETERGENT - Shive Dongerpur

6. ASIAN PAINTS - Shive Dongerpur

7. MARIE GOLD BISCUITS - White Feather Films

8. AMAZON - Amit Sharma

9. MOBIL - Under Productions.

EXPERIENCE IN PRODUCTION

1.	Assisted M.S Sathyu in films and TV production since 1981.

2.	Assisted Satyajit Ray and Sandip Ray in their films and TV productions in Mumbai.

3.	Assisted Roland Joffe during the making of ‘The City Of Joy’ in Kolkata and London.

4.	Assisted Shama Zaide in the making of a full length documentary, ‘The Heritage of Islam in India’.

5.	Handled production for Berlin TV documentary on the works of Satyajit Ray through the lens of Nemai Ghosh—‘Negatives of Satyajit Ray’.

EXPERIENCE IN DIRECTION

1.	 Associate Director--‘Krishnakant Ka Wasihatnama’ for Delhi Doordarshan 1983.

2.	Associate Director for Shri Bimal Mitra’s – ‘Sahib Biwi Gulam’ for sahara TV 2003.

3.	Directed a play for IPTA- BILQUIS BEGUM KAA BAADAA written by Federico Garcia Lorca.

DIRECTED DOCUMENTARIES

1.   The Rickshaw Pullers of Calcutta.

2.   Mother Teresa

3.   Kathakali dance of Delhi and Jaipur Gharana

4.   Birju Maharaj

5.   Noted film Personalities of India

6.   Calcutta Tramways

7.   Dharamtala maidan on sunday

8.   Mounted Police of Calcutta

9.    KAHAN KAHAN SE GUZRE (a man travelling through time) - Life and works of ‘M.S SATHYU’ eminent director, designer of Indian theatre and Cinema.

REFERENCES

http://Indian_People%27s_Theatre_Association

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirzya_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te3n

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Joy_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred-Foot_Journey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukkad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._S._Sathyu