Name Talat Hussain Role Film actor | Spouse Rakhshanda (m. 1972) | |
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Full Name Talat Hussain Warsi Parents Shaista Begum, Altaf Hussain Warsi Awards Lux Style Award for Satellite Best TV Actor Nominations Lux Style Award for Best Actor (Film) Movies and TV shows Similar People Rauf Khalid, Ashfaq Hussain, Saawan Kumar Tak | ||
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Talat Hussain, is a Pakistani Radio/Film/Television/Stage actor. He was born in India. His complete name is Talat Hussain Warsi. He is the son of Altaf Hussain Warsi and Shaista Begum who was one of the pioneering voices of Radio Pakistan. He is the eldest of three brothers. His family migrated to Pakistan in 1947.
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- Career
- Personal life
- Television
- Films
- Stage
- Awards and nominations
- References
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Career
Talat Hussain started his performing arts career from Radio Pakistan in 1964. With the advent of TV in Pakistan, Talat Hussain appeared on TV screens in 1966 and is still continuing. Notable performances on TV include Parchaiyaan, Bandish, Hawain (1997) Kashkol (1995), Des Pardes, Castle, Riyasat (2006). His first television play from Karachi was Arjumand. Apart from TV Talat Hussain has also performed in many stage productions in Pakistan including, Andhera Ujala (produced by Nautanki Tola) Raz o Niaz (produced by Rafi Peer Theatre) and Sufaid Khoon (produced by NAPA) among others.
In 1972, he moved to England, and joined the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Talat Hussain's early roles on TV in UK were in Jimmy Perry and David Croft's It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Cabaret Time, Don't Take the Mickey, Fight to Jovanialongside Jeffrey Holland and Robin Parkinson. He also worked for BBC Radio in play Crown Coat. He also worked on stage in UK, in Comedian which was performed at Nottingham Play House and West End.
Talat has worked in several foreign films, television drama serials and long plays, including Channel Four's television serial Traffik and Family Pride. In 2006, Talat Hussain won the Amanda Award for the Best Supporting Role in Norwegian film Import-export. He also worked in the Indian film Sautan Ki Beti and made a guest appearance in Jinnah.
In the early 1980s, Talat narrated the translation of the Qur'an in the Urdu language, which was then commercially produced on audiotape (and later on Audio CD as well) by the Shalimar Recording Company. Talat has also lent his voice to the character of Jesus in the Urdu dubbed version of the film Jesus.
Talat Hussain illustrious career has been recorded by Dr. Huma Mir in a recently complied book- "Yeh Hain Talat Hussain" published by the Arts Council of Pakistan and Ishahrat Publishers. [1]
Personal life
Talat is married to Dr. Rakhshanda Hussain, a professor of Psychology at University of Karachi. They have three children (two daughters and one son). Oldest daughter named Tazeen, middle daughter Roohaina, and youngest son Ashar. He is currently faculty member at National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) in Karachi and serves as a member of the governing body at the Karachi Arts Council and an ambassador of I Am Karachi. He has also been affiliated with PEMRA (member) and National Book Foundation of Pakistan (ambassador).