Rajendranath Zutshi (born 4 February 1961) is an Indian film and television actor.
Personal life
Zutshi was born on 4 February 1961 in
Srinagar
Srinagar (; ) is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary ...
,
Jammu and Kashmir, India into a
Kashmiri Pandit family. Raj Zutshi is a grandson of Dina Nath Zutshi, who was a radio and theatre artiste, perhaps best known to the public for his role as Halim Mirza, brother of Salim Mirza (
Balraj Sahni), in the film ''
Garam Hawa'' (1973).
Raj Zutshi was formerly married to Nuzhat Hussain, daughter of film-maker
Nasir Hussain. He was her second husband and the step-father of actor
Imran Khan, who was Nuzhat's son by her first husband, Anil Pal. Nuzhat is the sister of film-maker
Mansoor Khan and the first cousin of actor
Aamir Khan.
Career
Raj Zutshi also began his career as a theatre artist. He made the transition from theatre to cinema in 1984 with the film ''
Holi
Holi () is a major Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love and Spring.The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) p. 874 "Holi /'həʊli:/ noun a Hindu spring festival ...".Yudit Greenberg, Encyclopedia of Love in World ...
''. He was also seen in the TV series ''Yugantar'' in 1990, which was based on the novel of
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (September 7, 1934 – October 23, 2012) was an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, and critic. He played a key role in modernizing Bengali poetry and co-founded the 1953 Avant-garde, avant-gra ...
, and in the TV series ''Shikast'' (1997).
Filmography
Dubbing roles
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Living people
Male actors in Hindi cinema
1961 births
Kashmiri actors
Kashmiri people
Kashmiri Pandits
Raj Zutshi
Rajendranath Zutshi (born 4 February 1961) is an Indian film and television actor.
Personal life
Zutshi was born on 4 February 1961 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (state), Jammu and Kashmir, India into a Kashmiri Pandit family. Raj Zutshi is a ...
20th-century Indian male actors
21st-century Indian male actors