Dalip Tahil (born Dalip Tahilramani on October 30, 1952) is an Indian film, television, and theatre actor. He attended Sherwood College in Nainital, India.. Tahil is best known for his roles in the films Baazigar (1993), Raja (1995), Hum hai rahi pyar ke (1993), and Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1993).

Early years: Dalip Tahil

Dalip Tahilramani was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, on October 30, 1952, to a Sindhi Hindu family who had migrated from Sindh during India’s Partition.

Stage: Dalip Tahil

Dalip Tahil began performing on stage at the age of ten while attending Sherwood College in Nainital. Dalip’s participation in choir, elocution competitions, Nativity plays, and formal and informal concerts over the years provided him with a platform to be cast in principal roles. As a result, he won the Kendall Cup for best actor in two consecutive years during his senior year of high school, first as Joseph in the play My Three Angels, followed by Shakespeare’s Macbeth.. In 1969, his final year at Sherwood College, he was named best actor for the third time.Dalip moved to Mumbai with his family in 1968, where he joined the Theatre Group Bombay and studied under its directors, Alyque and Pearl Padamsee.

He played John the Baptist and Jesus in Godspell (India’s first English theatre musical, directed by Pearl Padamsee), and Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Alyque Padamsee.In Amal Alana’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Man Is a Man, he played Galy Gay.He is best known for his role as Madan Kumar in the A.R Rahman theatre musical Bombay Dreams, which he performed in over 500 performances at the Apollo Theatre in London from 1998 to 2002.

Films: Dalip Tahil

Tahil was born in 2008.

In 1974, director Shyam Benegal noticed Dalip and cast him in his first feature film, Ankur. Ramesh Sippy offered him the role of a villain in his epic production, Shaan, in 1980. This was followed by a cameo in Sir Richard Attenborough’s 1982 film, Gandhi.From the 1980s to 2013, he appeared in over 100 Bollywood films as a villain or in supporting roles as a father or a police officer. He appeared in the English films The Deceivers and The Perfect Murder, both directed by Merchant Ivory (1988).

In 1984, he played the father of Baby Sonia in Navodaya’s first 3-D film, My Dear Kuttichathan. In 2013, he played Jawaharlal Nehru in Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, alongside Farhan Akhtar as Milkha Singh.. Film Baazigar, he played the villainous role of Madan Chopra, a ruthless businessman (1993). Dalip has also portrayed Rupert Dali in Mission Mangal.

Television

Tahil appeared on television in Sanjay Khan’s The Sword of Tipu Sultan and Ramesh Sippy’s Buniyaad. Television then appeared in his first British television series, Bombay Blue (TV series).. Tahil rose to prominence in the UK after landing the role of Dan Ferreira in the iconic BBC1 soap opera EastEnders in 2003, appearing in over 60 episodes. He made his final appearance in the episode that aired on December 30, 2003. Dalip was forced to leave the series due to an insufficient work permit application, prompting him to file an appeal with the Secretary of State in the United Kingdom.

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