Zakir Hussain
Birthday: Born in 1951-03-09 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Deathday: 2024-12-15
Zakir Hussain is an Indian actor, composer and percussionist.
TV Credits
Bombers
Character: Somu Da
A fast paced, high-octane sports drama full of football action and dynamic interpersonal relationships. The story resonates with the triumph of the human spirit and the passion one possesses....
Movie Credits
Saaz
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Mansi, played by Aruna Irani the elder sister has to take up professional singing after her father's death and to support the family. The film focuses mainly on the female characters and traces how the younger sibling Bansi played by Shabana Azmi regains her identity....
Khayal
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Here in this film about the Indian classical music, the sitar maestro Pt. Ravi Shankar and the santoor maestro Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma explaining their concepts of a raga, a gharana, and their world of music. Characteristics of various gharana/schools such as the Jaipur gharana, the Kirana gharana, the Agra gharana, the Patiala gharana, the Mewati gharana are explained along with the contribution made by their leading exponents....
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Character: Self (archive footage)
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Monkey Man
Character: Tabla Maestro
Kid is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him....
Jazz in Marciac 2018 - Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain, Chris Potter -
Character: Tabla
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Heat and Dust
Character: Inder Lal, Anne's landlord
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life....
Chaalis Chauraasi
Character: Toby
Four friends -- Pankaj (Naseeruddin Shah), Bobby (Atul Kulkarni), Shakti Chinappa (Ravi Kissen), Albert Pinto (Kay Kay Menon) -- want to rob a lonely house in a lonely stretch of it's Rs 20 crore fake Indian currency... and the very fake note vending machine that lies in there. Just one problem: They have no plan......
Tabla Beat Science: Talamanam Sound Clash
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Filmed June 21, 2002 with 12 cameras at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco, this DVD documents a Tabla Beat Science performance that features founders Zakir Hussain (Tablas) and Bill Laswell (Bass), along with Ustad Sultan Khan (Sarangi and Vocals), Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw (Vocals), Karsh Kale (Drums), DJ Disk (Turntable) and MIDIval PunditZ (Electronics). Directed by Alex Winter....