Mir Sarwar

Mohammad Sarwar Mir is an Indian actor, who has appeared in Hindi films including Kesari, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, and Jolly LLB 2.

Mir Sarwar
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Actor, writer, director and producer
Known for	Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Hai Tujhe Salaam India

Career

Sarwar started his career with renowned directors M K Raina and Bapi Bose in Delhi. He was part of three National School of Drama workshops. He moved to Mumbai permanently in late 2014, before being cast in two high-profile films, Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) and Phantom (2015). In the former, he played the father of the lost Pakistani girl Shahida, who is guided by Salman Khan's character back to Pakistan.^[1]

Sarwar also worked on the production of Kashmir Daily, a self-financed Kashmiri film venture. He is involved in making Kashmiri films and contributes to the industry's projects without charging a fee in order to encourage film making among local residents.^[2][3] Mir has recently Directed a Film BED NO.17 in Srinagar and the film will be screened in several film festivals.^[4] In 2017, Sarwar worked on the production of Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Kaatru Veliyidai (2017) and shot for the film in Hyderabad and Ladakh.^[5][6] He successfully auditioned for the film, with date clashes meaning he opted out of his role in Naam Shabana (2017) for the opportunity.^[7]

Kedarnath was released on 7 December 2018. In 2019 he appeared in the films Kesari, Notebook and Hamid.^[8] After Kesari, Panipat, Chanakya, Jai Hind, Pawan Putra and some web series like The Family Man, Bard of Blood, Bhram and Special Ops released.^[9]

Sarwar played the protagonist in Half Widow,^[10] Kashmir Daily,^[3] and Lihaaf.^[11] He played the negative lead in Dharma Productions' Kesari (2019).^[12] Recently Sarwar wrote and directed the prayer song "Ya Khuda" in the COVID-19 lockdown, which had most of the veteran actors on J&K.^[13]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Language	Notes
2015	Bajrangi Bhaijaan	Rauf	Hindi
	Phantom	Sajid Mir
2016	Dishoom	Hadeed
	Dil Patang
2017	Jolly LLB 2	Inspector Baig
	Jagga Jasoos	Shooter
	Kaatru Veliyidai	Muzaffar Khan	Tamil
	Daddy	Samaad Khan	Hindi
	Poster Boys
	Ittefaq
	2016 The End	Michael / Kashmiri
	Bose: Dead/Alive	Rehmat Khan/Talwar	English, Hindi
2018	Kashmir Daily	Hussain Durrani	Hindi, Kashmiri
	Half Widow	Khalid	Urdu, Kashmiri
	Aiyaary	Lt.Col Hari Nath	Hindi
	Bioscopewala	Zadran
	Gaalib	Nazir Ahmed
	Vishwaroop II
	Vishwaroopam II		Tamil
	Lateef to Laden	Crush India	Hindi
	Kedarnath	Bashir
2019	Kesari	Khan Masud
	Hamid	Abbass
	Notebook	Imran's father
	Panipat	Imad-ul-Mulk
	Jai Hind		Bhojpuri	[14]
	Chanakya	Abdul Salim	Telugu
2020	Pawan Putra		Bhojpuri
	Laxmii	Abdul Chacha	Hindi
	Vanguard	Kalasu	English, Mandarin
2021	State of Siege: Temple Attack	Bilal Naikoo	Hindi
	Shershaah	Hyder	Hindi	[15]
2022	Hai Tujhe Salaam India	Pradhan	Hindi
2023	Mission Majnu	A.Q.Khan	Hindi
	Lafzon Mein Pyaar	Narendra	Hindi
	Samara	Ramanujam	Malayalam
	Hukus Bukus	Coach Khalid	Hindi
2024	Phullwanti	Badshah	Marathi
TBA	Songs of Paradise			[16]

Web series

Year	Title	Role
2018	Bose: Dead/Alive	Rehmat Khan/Bhagat Singh
2019	The Family Man	Faizan
	Bhram	Elder Yakub
2020	Special OPS	Hamid
2024	Ranneeti: Balakot & Beyond	Hammad Wadhera

References

1. "Bollywood offers a more serene destination for talents from Kashmir". mid-day.com. 19 March 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
2. Naqash, Rayan (2 April 2017). "Against the odds, a movie about Kashmir by Kashmiris with the message 'If I can, so can't others'". scroll.in. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
3. "Kashmiri film chronicling a journalist's fight against drug abuse screened in Srinagar". Hindustan Times. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
4. "'Bed No.17' to head for int'l film festivals". 18 June 2018.
5. "Mani Ratnam's energy level very inspiring: Mir Sarwar". indiatvnews.com. 16 March 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
6. "Mir Sarwar in Kaatru Veliyidai". Deccan Chronicle. 11 February 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
7. "Left Naam Shabana for Kaatru Veliyidai: Mir Sarwar". The New Indian Express. 14 March 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
8. "Three releases this month, Kashmiri actor comes of age in Bollywood". 7 March 2019.
9. "'Kesari' is an upcoming Indian period war drama film based on the Battle of Saragarhi". 12 September 2018.
10. "In Kashmiri film 'Half Widow', a missing husband and a dilemma: should she hold on or let go?". 6 January 2020.
11. "Shot in old Srinagar, 'Lihaaf' set for premier in Germany". 26 June 2019.
12. "Mir Sarwar:Akshay Kumar is undoubtedly the fittest actor today". 18 March 2019.
13. Khan, M. Amir (11 June 2020). "In Covid times, Valley artistes release song of hope 'Ya Khuda'". Tribune. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
14. TNN (24 June 2019). "'Jai Hind': Pawan Singh shares the new poster of his upcoming film". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
15. "'Shershaah': The Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani starrer to hit the theatres on July 2, 2021". The Times of India. 20 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
16. "Saba Azad to play Raj Begum in Danish Renzu's Songs Of Paradise - Exclusive". The Times of India. 25 September 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2024.

External links

• Mir Sarwar at IMDb