Nilesh Sahay (born October 20, 1982) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, director and writer. He is the son of former

Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is primarily produced in Mumbai. The popular term Bollywood is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and "Cinema of the United States, Hollywood". The in ...

actress Zaheeda Hussain, niece of actress

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Life

Sahay is the son of the actress Zaheeda. His great-grandmother

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was the country's first female film producer and music composer. His maternal grandfather Akhtar Hussain was an actor, producer, director and writer and his grandaunt and uncle

and

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were also actors. Sahay is the nephew of Bollywood actor

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. Nilesh belongs to a family of Indian landlords. His great grandfather, Shyan Nandan Sahay, was an Indian landlord, educationist, legislator and the founder vice chancellor of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University Muzaffarpur. Born in the Indian state of Bihar, Shyan also served as the vice chancellor of Patna University. He was a member of the 1st

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, elected from Muzaffarpur Central constituency on

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candidature. The

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awarded him the third highest civilian honour, the

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, in 1957, for his contributions to education. A road in Muzaffarpur is named Padma Bhushan Shyan Nandan Sahay.

Career

Sahay made his film debut in Ganesh Acharaya's 2011 film ''

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''. He later turned filmmaker and started filming ''

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'', his directorial debut, in September 2019 at Belarusfilm studios in

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. Sahay is currently director of the upcoming production, ''Ambush'', starring

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Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sahay, Nilesh Living people 1983 births Male actors in Hindi cinema Male actors from Mumbai 21st-century Indian male actors