Asif Basra

Asif Basra was an Indian actor whose career encompassed Bollywood films, television serials, and stage work. Born in Amravati, Maharashtra, he moved to Mumbai in 1989, where he studied physics at university and appeared in college plays, winning prizes for his characters. Western audiences knew him best for the American film Outsourced (2006), and he shared the screen with Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole in One Night with the King (2006). His film credits include Black Friday, directed by Anurag Kashyap, and Parzania, directed by Rahul Dholakia; both drew critical appreciation, and he played a tailor in Lamhaa and Shoaib's father in Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010). On stage he took on five roles in Feroz Abbas Khan's Mahatma v/s Gandhi and played Horatio in Hamlet. His 2020 credits included the web series Paatal Lok and Hostages, and he acted across Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, and Malayalam cinema. He died in 2020.