Imran Zahid

Imran Zahid was born as in Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro, Jharkhand[1]

He began acting while at DAV Public School, Sector IV in Bokaro Steel City. He then attended Hindu College, Delhi University, from where he got a B.Com degree.[2][3]

While at university Zahid became involved with a theatre group run by Arvind Gaur.[3] He continued acting while being employed as a professor.[4]

Zahid has said that he had neither the desire nor the need to work in Mumbai.[4] It had been announced in 2010 that he would act in the lead role for Chandu, a film by Mahesh Bhatt about Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation member Chandrashekhar Prasad, who was shot dead on 31 March 1997 during a political rally.[2] He had met Bhatt at a conference in Dubai in 2007 and it was then that Bhatt asked him to take part in the film.[4] The proposed film attracted criticism from students at the university.[5] In 2013, the project was scrapped due to opposition to its production and concerns of potential legal hurdles as a result of the cases related to the assassination being sub judice at the time.[6] The project was revived in 2016 and is currently under production.[7]

He played the role of Muntadhar Al Zaidi in The Last Salute, Bhatt's production based on the shoe-hurling incident involving George W. Bush.[8] Bhatt has proposed to make a film of it with Zahid reprising the role.[9]

It was announced that Zahid would act in Bhatt's Bollywood film Jannat 2 but he subsequently pulled out of the role in favour of playing the part of a narcotics detective in another Bhatt film, Jism 2.[10]

Zahid played the role of the protagonist - a journalist investigating atrocities - in a Bhatt-produced play, Trial of Errors, that opened on 29 March 2013 in Delhi.[11][12]

Zahid played the lead role in a stage adaptation of Bhatt of his movie, Arth.[13] Zahid also played the lead role of the father in Mahesh Bhatt theatrical adaptation of his film Daddy.[14][15] Zahid will play the lead role in a remake of Bhatt autobiographical movie, Janam.[16]

He additionally played the lead role in stage adaptation of bhatt's self-portraying movie Hamari Adhuri Kahani in which Bhatt has sung a cover version of the title track for this play and actor Zahid cheered for his depiction as lead actor.[17][18][19][20][21]

In 2016, Zahid played the part of Protheus in an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona.[22][23][24][25]

The Hindustan Times has said that

Imran Zahid, Mahesh Bhatt's latest discovery, surprises you in more than one way. First, he's not a regular newcomer who's bitten by the 'ambition' bug; he wants to rather fly very very slow with the support of his mentor Mahesh Bhatt. Second he's still based in Delhi, despite having reportedly securing two big films Bollywood films; and third he has a composure of a veteran who's been there and seen it all.[26]

Zahid has said that his preference is to have an arranged marriage and that as of 2010 he was not dating.[27]