Denzil Smith

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

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3
FHD
  • Nov 01, 2024
  • Hindi
A fake ghostbuster is blackmailed into helping a royal family with their haunted palace, but dueling demonic possessions complicate matters.
The Railway Men - The Untold Story Of Bhopal 1984
After a deadly gas leaks from a factory in Bhopal, brave railway workers risk their lives to save others in the face of an unspeakable disaster.
Leo
FHD
7.5
Violently pursued by criminals who insist he's a former gangster, a humble cafe owner fights to shield his family — and the truth about his identity.
Agent
FHD
A spy with a mysterious past, who is on a mission to uncover the truth about a dangerous terrorist organization.
Lakadbaggha
  • Jan 13, 2023
  • Hindi
An animal loving vigilante Arjun Bakshi, unearths the fact that an underground illegal animal trade cell functions from Kolkata port. On investigating he chances upon a rare species of the Indian Striped Hyena (Lakadbaggha).
Mind the Malhotras
  • Jan 01, 2022
  • Hindi
When yet another married couple within their friend circle files for divorce, Rishabh and Shefali Malhotra fear that their marriage too can be a ticking time bomb. They seek professional help from a puzzling therapist who dredges up the most bizarre moments in the Malhotras' family life be it the quality of their sex life, the quirks of their three kids or the antics of Rishabh's annoying mother.
Dybbuk: The Curse Is Real
  • Oct 29, 2021
  • Hindi
Mahi, a newly married woman, brings an antique Jewish box into her home. When Mahi and her husband Sam begin to have paranormal experiences, they soon learn that the box is a dybbuk containing an evil spirit. The couple then seeks the help of a rabbi to unravel its mystery. Will they survive this ordeal before their child is born?
Bellbottom
  • Aug 19, 2021
  • Hindi
When an Indian commercial airliner is hijacked by terrorists in the mid 1980s, a government agent is tasked with rescuing the 210 hostages.
Tenet
HD
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Photograph
  • Mar 15, 2019
  • OST
A struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a connection that transforms them in ways that they could not expect.
Badla
  • Mar 08, 2019
  • HindiOST
When a woman is accused of killing her lover, a renowned lawyer is hired -- but the more they try to untangle the truth, the more convoluted it becomes.
Baazaar
  • Oct 26, 2018
  • Hindi
After moving to Mumbai, an ambitious young man becomes the stock trader for a notorious businessman.
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
  • 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.
Naa Peru Surya - Naa Illu India
  • 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.
Aksar 2
  • Nov 17, 2017
  • Hindi
A husband's plan to break up his marriage so that he can be with another woman backfires with unexpected consequences.
Baadshaho
  • Sep 01, 2017
  • OSTHindi
An Indian queen asks her bodyguard to steal back gold taken from her by the Indian government during The Emergency period in 1975.
Jagga Jasoos
  • Jul 14, 2017
  • Hindi
A gifted teenage detective searches for his missing father with his ladylove assistant.
P.O.W. Bandi Yuddh Ke
  • 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.
Ishq Forever
  • 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.
Phantom
  • 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.
Zid
4.5
  • Nov 28, 2014
  • Hindi
Maya falls in love with Ronnie, a crime reporter, and gets obsessed with him. Things take a turn for the worse when they both get involved in a murder case.
The Lunchbox
  • Sep 19, 2013
  • Hindi
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
Shaurya
  • Apr 04, 2008
  • Hindi
Maj. Siddhant Chaudhary, an Indian Army lawyer, attempts to defend Capt. Javed Khan who is accused of killing a decorated officer. The problem is that Khan does not wish to be defended and freely admits to his crime.