Ankur Vikal

Ankur Vikal
Ankur Vikal
Born	June 24, 1971 (age 52); Gujarat, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	National School of Drama
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2002–present

Ankur Vikal is an Indian theatre and film actor.

Career

He graduated from the

Baroda. He has acted with the Motley Theatre Group in plays such as Manto Ismat Haazir Hain, Safed Jhooth Kaali Shalwar, Katha Kollage II, All Thieves, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and Salome. His film career began with the Indian ground-breaking film Mango Soufflé, followed by the highly acclaimed films Maqbool and Missed Call

.

Ankur played the role of Maman in

Screen Actor's Guild

Award ( Outstanding performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture) for his highly acclaimed and appreciated performance as Maman.
He also played the lead in The Forest. He was most recently seen in Telugu language film Kedi and Hindi film Striker. In Tamil cinema he debuted in Mariyan (2013) where he played the role of an oil worker.
He played Yakub, the antagonist terrorist leader, in the TV Series 24.
He then worked on Nirbhaya-A play by Yael Farber for 3 years. The play was about the gang rape on a bus in Delhi on 16 December 2012. It was also about sexual abuse, patriarchy and misogyny. It won a fringe first, an Amnesty award and a heralds angel when it opened in Edinburgh. It is considered by many critics and audiences to be one of the most important works of human rights theatre in the world.
This was followed by films like Phobia with Radhika Apte, Jazbaa with Irrfan Khan, And Yaara by Tigmanshu Dhulia. His series Betaal is on Netflix and Paatal lok is on Amazon Prime.
Amol Gupte
, Inside Edge, Season 3 and Baahubali, before the beginning will release later this year.

Filmography

Mango Soufflé (2002) as Kamlesh

Maqbool (2003) as Riyaz Boti

Missed Call (2005) as Gaurav Sengupta

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) as Maman

The Forest (2009) as Pritam

Striker (2010, Hindi) as Zaid

Kedi (2010, Telugu) as Chandra

Breaking the way (2010, Short) as Ashok

Maryan (2013, Tamil)

Yamdas (2014) as Darshan

Unfreedom (2014) as Najeeb

Bang Bang
(2014, Hindi) as Shoaib

Jazbaa (2015, Hindi) as Vijay

Blemished Light
(2015) as Najib

Train Station
(2015) as Brown (India)

Sold (2016) as Varun

Phobia (2016, Hindi) as Manu Malhotra

Indu Sarkar (2017, Hindi) as Shivam

Love Sonia (2018) as Hotel Manager

Mehandi Circus (2019, Tamil) as Jadhav

Cookie (2020) as Mokashe

Yaara (2020) as Fakira/ Durrani

Doosra (2020) as Mr.Agarwal

Saina (2021) as Jeevan Kumar, Saina's Coach

Bhavai (2021) as Bhurelal

Beast (2022, Tamil) as Umar Saif

Toolsidas Junior (2022) as K.K.Burman

Television

(2013) 24 - Yakub Sayeed

(2020) Betaal Netflix Original Series - Bhunnu

(2020) Paatal Lok Amazon Prime Video Original Series - Kana Commandar

(2021) Inside Edge (Season 3) Amazon Prime Video Original Series - Coach Azeem Khan

References

^ "Introducing Slumdog Millionaire".

External links

Ankur Vikal at
IMDb

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[1] "Introducing Slumdog Millionaire".