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).”
Denzil Smith
Movies
Rog
Rog is the story of a troubled police officer who falls in love with a dead woman whose murder he is investigating. Maya Solomon mesmerizes all who surround her with her breathtaking beauty and sensuality. Thus giving more twists and turns in the game of life. Where by the police…
Ek Ajnabee
Suryaveer Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is a bitter man, hired to protect a little girl, Anamika (Rucha Vaidya). However, Anamika gets kidnapped and her father is not able to pay the sum in order to release his daughter. So Suryaveer uses all his skills to save the life of the child,…
Lamhaa
Indian Military Intelligence assigns their agent, Vikram Sabharwal, to travel to Kashmir. There he is to locate the person(s) behind the violence, under the guise of a press reporter, Gul Jahangir. Once there, he begins his investigation by visiting highly sensitive areas as such as the Jama Masjid, Dardpura Village…
Baadshaho
Baadshaho is inspired by real-life events during the Emergency and revolves around stolen gold, a thief (Ajay Devgn), an army officer (Vidyut Jammwal), a character inspired by Maharani Gayatri Devi. Maharani Gitanjali Devi (Ileana D’Cruz) from one of the Rajasthan’s Princely States has already lost her privy purse. The story…
Bombairiya
Bombay Velvet
Set against the backdrop of ambition, love, greed, and jazz – Bombay Velvet is the story of one ordinary man who goes against all odds and forges his destiny to become a ‘Big Shot’. Jazz clubs, a passionate love story, a growing metropolis and a phenomenal hunger for a good…
Bombay Vikings
Set against the backdrop of ambition, love, greed, and jazz – Bombay Velvet is the story of one ordinary man who goes against all odds and forges his destiny to become a ‘Big Shot’. Jazz clubs, a passionate love story, a growing metropolis and a phenomenal hunger for a good…
Impatient Vivek
Vivek lives a wealthy lifestyle in Hathipole, Udaipur, along with his mother; father, Rameshwar; grandmother; and sister, Supriya. He takes money without permission and travels to Goa along with his friends. Once there, he meets and falls in love with Shruti Tyagi – but she rejects him. Two years later,…
O Teri
Prantabh and Anand, associated with a news channel in Delhi, are in search of a big scam to prove a point to their senior. A dead body accidentally lands up in their car.