Imran Zahid

Imran Zahid
Imran Zahid
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2010–present

Imran Zahid is an Indian actor in both theatre and Bollywood. He has acted in Mahesh Bhatt's The Last Salute, based on Muntadhar al-Zaidi's book of the same title and the stageplay The Arth, based on Bhatt's movie Arth. His latest play was Daddy based on Bhatt's movie of the same name.

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.

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

Zahid has said that he had neither the desire nor the need to work in Mumbai. 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 member Chandrashekhar Prasad, who was shot dead on 31 March 1997 during a political rally. 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. The proposed film attracted criticism from present students at the university and, as of August 2012^[update], had not progressed beyond scripting.

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. Bhatt has proposed to make a film of it with Zahid reprising the role.

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.

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