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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Naseeruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Anupam Kher, Rohini Hattangadi, Amal Allana, Suresh Bhardwaj, Irrfan Khan, Raghubir Yadav, B. V. Karanth, National School of Drama, Om Puri, Ratan Thiyam, Sai Paranjpye, Shanta Gandhi, Mita Vashisht, Himani Shivpuri, Yashpal Sharma, Piyush Mishra, Pankaj Kapoor, Uttara Baokar, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Manohar Singh, Seema Biswas, Neena Gupta, Swanand Kirkire, Ashutosh Rana, Nirmal Pandey, Rajendra Gupta, Manoj Bajpai, Vineet Kumar, Bhanu Bharti, Satish Kaushik, Om Shivpuri, M. K. Raina, Prasanna, Deepa Sahi, Nadira Babbar, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Sudha Shivpuri, Mohan Maharishi, Seema Azmi, B.M. Shah, K. K. Raina, Anita Kanwar, Surekha Sikri, Bansi Kaul, Ravi Jhankal, Harpal Tiwana, Sutapa Sikdar. Excerpt: Naseeruddin Shah (Urdu: , Hindi: ) (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian film actor and director. He is considered to be one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. In 2003, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian cinema. Shah was born on July 20, 1950 in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is a descendant of the 19th-century Afghan warlord Jan Fishan Khan, and related to the Afghan writer Idries Shah, the famous Pakistani actor, Syed Kamal Shah, Director General of IB, Pakistan, Shah Mahboob Alam and the cricketer Owais Shah. Naseeruddin Shah did his schooling at St. Anselm's Ajmer and St Joseph's College, Nainital. He graduated in arts from Aligarh Muslim University in 1971 and attended National School of Drama in Delhi. He has seen success in both mainstream Bollywood cinema as well as in Parallel Cinema. He also appeared in many international films most notably playing Captain Nemo in the Hollywood comic book adaptation The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. His elder brother Lt. General Zameerud-din Shah PVSM, SM, VSM, also an alumnus of ...