Express News Service
You saw him as Inspector Chougale in Black Friday, JD in Fool n Final, Sajid Don in Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, Prakash Rao in Singham Returns, Patil in Badlapur and most recently as Giriraj Shastry in SonyLIV web series, Sandwiched Forever. In all these characters, though each is different from the other, actor Zakir Hussain always leaves an impact on the audience.
“My character Shastry is a plant scientist, a very simple man who is totally involved with the flora, so much so that he even has names for them like Faiz, D’Costa, etc. But while Shastry is in love with plants, he is always at loggerheads with his wife,” says Hussain, about his ongoing series. The role was not difficult because “we Indians have a special relationship with plants”.