Anwar Hussain (11 November 1925 – 1 January 1988) was an Indian actor and producer. He was a popular
character actor
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from the 1940s to 1982 and acted in over 200
Bollywood
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films. Some of his best known roles are from ''
Ab Dilli Dur Nahin'', ''
Gunga Jumna
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'' (1961), ''
Shaheed
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'', ''
Baharon Ke Sapne
''Baharon Ke Sapne'' (Dreams of Spring) is a 1967 Hindi film made under Nasir Hussain films' banner. It starred Rajesh Khanna and the Nasir Hussain fixture - Asha Parekh. It also had Premnath, Madan Puri and another Nasir Hussain fixture Rajend ...
'', ''
Victoria No. 203'' (1972), ''
Chori Mera Kaam
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'', ''
Loafer
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'', ''
Gaddar
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'', ''
Rafoo Chakkar'' and ''
Jail Yatra''. He was the son of singer-turned director
Jaddanbai
Jaddanbai Hussain (Hindi: जद्दनबाई हुसैन, Punjabi: ਜੱਦਨਬਾਈ ਹੁਸੈਨ, Urdu: ; 1892 – April 8, 1949; known professionally as Jaddanbai) was an Indian singer, music composer, dancer, actress, filmma ...
and thus, maternal half-brother to noted actress
Nargis Dutt
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and Akhtar Hussain.
Hussain is best known for his roles in ''
Gunga Jumna
''Ganga Jamna'' (ISO 15919: ''Gaṅgā Jamunā''), also transliterated as ''Ganga Jamuna'' or ''Gunga Jumna'', is a 1961 Indian crime drama film, written and produced by Dilip Kumar, and directed by Nitin Bose, with dialogues written by Wajahat ...
'' (1962) and ''
Rocky
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'' (1981) with his nephew
Sanjay Dutt
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.
The unknown brother'n sisters of B'wood
9 August 2006.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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Anwar Hussain
at Upperstall.com
1925 births
1988 deaths
Indian male film actors
Hindi film producers
Male actors in Hindi cinema
20th-century Indian male actors
Place of birth missing
Film producers from Kolkata
Male actors from Kolkata
Male actors in Punjabi cinema
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