Denzil Smith
Denzil Smith is a versatile Anglo-Indian actor, known for playing the role of Jinnah in Viceroy's House (2017), The Lunchbox (2013), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), the Emmy award-winning television series Delhi Crime (2019) and P.O.W. Bandi Yuddh Ke (2016-17) as Lala for which he won the Indian Television Academy Award Best Actor in a Negative Role (2017).
Based in Mumbai, Smith began his acting career on stage in 1988 with Pearl Padamsee's Les Liaisons Dangereuse where he first worked with Naseeruddin Shah, becoming a member of Shah's Motley Productions. By 1998, he also began working extensively with Lilette Dubey's PrimeTime Theatre in productions such as On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Sammy, August: Osage County and "Gauhar". These plays toured both India and various cities in North America, UK and Europe, South-East Asia and Australia.
One of Smith's early films was Mango Soufflé (2002), which was promoted as "first gay male film from India." He then went on to play a range of characters from a Tibetan Monk in Paap (2003), a gangster against Amitabh Bachchan in Ek Ajnabee (2005), a professor in Braman Naman (2016) and Marathi film Manjha (2017), Manipuri militant in Disney's Jagga Jasoos (2017), the comedic villain in Disney's Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi (2018), detective in Badla (2019) and Dimple Kapadia's spouse in Sanjay in Christopher Nolan's Tenet (2020).
More recently, Smith has returned to the small screen as the Maharaja of Kalyan in the British series Beecham House (2019).
Movies
- Aug 24, 2018
- Hindi
Harpreet Kaur, a woman who travels to China to find her fiance, gets mistakenly kidnapped by some thugs whose assignment was to abduct another woman of the same name travelling by the same flight.
- May 03, 2018
- Tamil
Despite having serious anger management issues, Surya, an Indian Army officer is a brilliant officer but when anger takes control of him he is impossible to subdue. In spite of this issue, he achieves his goal of serving the country by overcoming the hurdles.
7.4
- Jul 14, 2017
- Hindi
A gifted teenage detective searches for his missing father with his ladylove assistant.
- Nov 06, 2016
- Hindi
After seventeen years in captivity, two soldiers, who seem to share a dark secret, return to their families. The two families try to pick up where they left off, while a government agent tries to expose their dark secret. Meanwhile, the POWs try to acclimatize to the environment that they left 17 years ago. The government agent tries several methods to expose these POWs but ends up in trouble.
2.5
- Feb 18, 2016
- Hindi
The film stars Ruhi Singh as Rhea, a free-spirited girl, whose life turns upside down when her father gets appointed as the Prime Minister of India. The fiercely independent Rhea starts to feel stifled because of the security team that accompanies her wherever she goes and the young lady jumps at the chance of an adventure provided by a mysterious stranger Aryan Shekhawat (Krishna Chaturvedi), who she runs off with while on a vacation in South Africa, much to the anguish of her security team led by RAW agents Lisa Ray and Jaaved Jaaferi. To know what happens next, you will have to watch the film.
4.2
- Aug 28, 2015
- Hindi
Phantom is an action thriller that unfolds across various countries around the world. The plot revolves around protagonist Daniyal, whose journey to seek justice takes him from India to Europe, America and the volatile Middle East. However, he finds out that in a mission like this, there is always a price to pay, in this case, a very personal price.