Sumit Kaul

Sumit Kaul
Sumit Kaul
Born	10 March 1978 (age 46); Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Occupations	Actor; model;
Years active	2000–present
Notable work	Tanaav Haider Laila Majnu Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat

Sumit Kaul (born 10 March 1978) is an Indian actor and model known for playing Umar Riaz in the web series Tanaav.

Kaul was born on March 10, 1978, in Bombay, Maharashtra into a Kashmiri Pandit family that left Kashmir Valley in the 1990s.^[1]^[2] He started his acting career in the year 2000 with Ek Jute, a theatre group headed by Nadira Babbar where he spent the next four years doing several Hindi and Urdu plays.^[3] He has also worked in the films like Haider, Laila Majnu, Mulk and Hamid and has been part of TV shows like Laagi Tujhse Lagan, Nazar and web shows like Tanaav. His most recent role is of Inspector Sandeep Tomar in the movie Afwaah.^[4]^[5]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Language
2010	Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai	Chhota Rajan	Hindi
2013	Bumboo	Dr. D'Souza	Hindi
2014	Haider^[1]	Salmaan	Hindi
2018	Mulk	Mehfooz Alam	Hindi
2018	Laila Majnu^[1]	Ibban	Hindi
2019	Hamid^[1]	Rehmat ALI	Hindi
2021	Bell Bottom	Agent Dollar	Hindi
2023	Afwaah		Hindi
2024	Article 370	Yakub Shaikh	Hindi

Television

Year	Title	Role	Language	Notes
2009-2012	Laagi Tujhse Lagan^[6]	Sudarshan	Hindi
2010	Rishta.com	Neil	Hindi	Episode 14
2013	Arjun	Criminal	Hindi	Episode 111
2014	Do Dil Ek Jaan	Govind	Hindi
2015	Agent Raghav – Crime Branch	Shubhodh Arora	Hindi
2015	Siya Ke Ram	Akampana	Hindi
2015-2016	Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat	Rajkumar Justin Maurya^[7]	Hindi
2016	24^[6]	Gyan	Hindi	Season 2
2016-2017	Bahu Hamari Rajni Kant	Amartya	Hindi
2017	Peshwa Bajirao^[8]	Mughal Muhammed Kam Baksh	Hindi
2017-2018	Baahubali: The Lost Legends	Prince Varaah	Hindi English	voice role
2018–2020	Nazar^[8]	Nishant Sharma	Hindi
2022	Tanaav^[9]	Umar Riaz ‘Panther’	Hindi
2024	Janani – AI Ki Kahani	Paresh Parmar	Hindi
2024-present	Tenali Rama	Girgit	Hindi

Dubbing roles

Animated series

Program title	Original voice(s)	Character(s)	Dub Language	Original Language	Number of Episodes	Original airdate	Notes
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes	Lance Reddick	Sam Wilson / Falcon	Hindi	English	52	9/20/2010-5/5/2013
Avengers Assemble	Bumper Robinson	Sam Wilson / Falcon	Hindi	English	50	8/26/2013- Current
Transformers: Robots in Disguise	Mitchell Whitfield	Fixit	Hindi	English	71	14 March 2015 – 4 November 2017	Sumit has voiced 10 characters in the Hindi dub.
	Mitchell Whitfield	Toolbox
	Khary Payton	Bisk
	Fred Tatasciore	Saberhorn
	Fred Tatasciore	Night Watchmen
	Victor Brandt	Scorponok
	Robbie Rist	Swelter
	Eric Bauza	Forth
	Eric Bauza	Major Mayhem
	Mikey Kelley	Opposing Captain
The Adventures of Tintin	Colin O'Meara	Tintin (Second Dub)	Hindi	English	39	2 October 1991 – 28 September 1992
The Adventures of Tintin	Thierry Wermuth	Tintin (Second Dub)	Hindi	French	39	2 October 1991 – 28 September 1992

Live action television series

Program title	Actor(s)	Character(s)	Dub Language	Original Language	Number of Episodes	Original airdate
Stranger Things	Chris Sullivan	Benny Hammond	Hindi	English	17	15 July 2016 – present
Seven and Me	Flavio Parenti	Marco White	Hindi	English	26	28 October 2016 – present
The Crown	Daniel Ings	Mike Parker	Hindi	English	20	4 November 2016 – present
Happy!	Collin Smith	Barman	Hindi	English	8	6 December 2017 – present
Happy!	Jon Berry	Brent Baker	Hindi	English	8	6 December 2017 – present

Live action films

Hollywood films

Film title	Actor	Character	Dub Language	Original Language	Original Year Release	Dub Year Release	Notes
Resident Evil	Unknown actor	Unknown character (Second Dub)	Hindi	English	2002	2010
Inception	Dileep Rao	Yusuf (First Dub)	Hindi	English	2010	2010	In early 2013, UTV Software Communications produced a second Hindi dub for UTV Action due to a policy implemented, even though Main Frame Software Communications is owned by the same company that made the original Hindi dub that Sumit participated in.
The Smurfs	John Oliver	Vanity Smurf (voice)	Hindi	English	2011	2011	American live action film mixed with CGI animation.
The Smurfs 2	John Oliver	Vanity Smurf (voice)	Hindi	English	2013	2013	American live action film mixed with CGI animation.
Cowboys & Aliens	Sam Rockwell	Doc	Hindi	English	2011	2011
Battleship	Unknown actor	Unknown character	Hindi	English	2012	2012
Premium Rush	Unknown actor	Unknown character	Hindi	English	2012	2012
Olympus Has Fallen	Unknown actor	Unknown character	Hindi	English	2013	2013
The Wolverine	Unknown actor	Unknown character	Hindi	English	2013	2013	Performed alongside Shakti Singh who voiced Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine in Hindi.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Marton Csokas	Ashley Kafka	Hindi	English	2014	2014	Sumit has voiced 2 characters in the Hindi dub.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2	J. D. Walsh	Dr. Jallings	Hindi	English	2014	2014	Sumit has voiced 2 characters in the Hindi dub.
RoboCop	Jordan Johnson-Hinds	Jerry White	Hindi	English	2014	2014	Performed alongside Aaditya Raj Sharma who voiced Joel Kinnaman as Alex Murphy / Robocop, Samay Raj Thakkar who voiced Michael Keaton as Raymond Sellers, Vinod Kulkarni who voiced Patrick Garrow as Antoine Vallon, Mayur Vyas who voiced Michael K. Williams as Jack Lewis, Manoj Pandey who voiced Jackie Earle Haley as Rick Mattox and Amar Babaria who voiced K.C. Collins as Andre Daniels in Hindi.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Domhnall Gleeson	General Hux	Hindi	English	2015	2015
Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Domhnall Gleeson	General Hux	Hindi	English	2017	2017
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	Domhnall Gleeson	General Hux	Hindi	English	2019	2019
Captain America: Civil War	Chadwick Boseman	T'Challa / Black Panther	Hindi	English	2016	2016	Performed alongside Manish Wadhwa who voiced Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier and Anuj Gurwara who voiced Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Falcon in Hindi. Viraj Adhav dubbed this role in next movies.
The Finest Hours	Casey Affleck	Ray Sybert	Hindi	English	2016	2016	Performed alongside Manish Wadhwa who voiced Chris Pine as Bernard "Bernie" Webber in Hindi.
Spider-Man: Homecoming	Martin Starr	Mr. Harrington	Hindi	English	2017	2017
Logan	Stephen Merchant	Caliban	Hindi	English	2017	2017	Performed alongside Shakti Singh who voiced Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine in Hindi.
War Machine	Anthony Hayes	Lieutenant Commander Pete Duckman	Hindi	English	2017	2017
XXX: Return of Xander Cage	Nicky Jam	Lazarus	Hindi	English	2017	2017	Performed alongside Sharad Kelkar who voiced Vin Diesel as Xander Cage in Hindi.
The Fate of the Furious	Scott Eastwood	Eric Reisner / Little Nobody	Hindi	English	2017	2017	Performed alongside Shailendra Pandey who voiced Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto in Hindi.
Pacific Rim: Uprising	Scott Eastwood	Nate Lambert	Hindi	English	2018	2018	Performed alongside Manoj Pandey who voiced John Boyega as Jake Pentecost in Hindi.
Deadpool 2	Ryan Reynolds	Wade Wilson / Deadpool	Hindi	English	2018	2018	An extended cut (super duper cut) of the film was released in August, in which Sumit dubbed this character.
The Predator	Boyd Holbrook	Quinn McKenna	Hindi	English	2018	2018
Venom	Riz Ahmed	Carlton Drake / Riot	Hindi	English	2018	2018	Performed alongside Chetanya Adib who voiced Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, Samay Raj Thakkar who voiced Venom and Neshma Chemburkar who voiced Michelle Williams as Anne Weying in Hindi.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald	Callum Turner	Theseus Scamander	Hindi	English	2018	2018	Performed alongside Rajesh Shukla who voiced Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander and Aaditya Raaj who voiced Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski in Hindi.
The Night Comes for Us	Revaldo	Yohan	Hindi	Indonesian English Mandarin Cantonese	2018	2018
Triple Frontier	Oscar Isaac	Santiago "Pope" Garcia	Hindi	English	2019	2019
Aladdin	Billy Magnussen	Prince Anders	Hindi	English	2019	2019
Always Be My Maybe	Randall Park	Marcus Kim	Hindi	English	2019	2019
Christopher Robin	Ewan McGregor	Christopher Robin	Hindi	English	2018	2019

Indian films

Film title	Actor	Character	Dub Language	Original Language	Original Year Release	Dub Year Release
Bruce Lee: The Fighter	Ram Charan	Karthik alias Bruce Lee alias IB Officer Vikram Kumar	Hindi	Telugu	2015	2016
Baadshah	Brahmaji	Pilli Ramakrishna Simha	Hindustani	Telugu	2013	2022
Power	Brahmaji	Sub-inspector Venkat	Hindi	Telugu	2014	2015
Jagame Thandhiram	Kalaiyarasan	Deepan	Hindi	Tamil	2021	2021
Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo	Brahmaji	Sudharshanam (Sudhir Sharma in Hindi version)	Hindi	Telugu	2020	2022

Animated films

Film title	Original Voice(s)	Character(s)	Dub Language	Original Language	Original Year release	Dub Year release	Notes
Kung Fu Panda 2	Danny McBride	Wolf Boss	Hindi	English	2011	2011	Performed alongside Prasad Barve who voiced Jack Black as Po and Kishore Bhatt who voiced Gary Oldman as Lord Shen in Hindi.
Epic	Pitbull	Bufo	Hindi	English	2013	2013
Turbo	Unknown voice actor	Unknown character	Hindi	English	2013	2013
How to Train Your Dragon 2	Kit Harington	Eret	Hindi	English	2014	2014	Sumit's name was mentioned in the Hindi dubbing credits of the DVD release.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Kit Harington	Eret	Hindi	English	2019	2019
Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled	Bumper Robinson	Sam Wilson / Falcon	Hindi	English	2015	2015
Lego Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape	Sendhil Ramamurthy	Simon Masrani	Hindi	English	2016	2016
The Boss Baby	Jimmy Kimmel	Ted Templeton	Hindi	English	2017	2017	Performed alongside Pawan Kalra who voiced Alec Baldwin as Theodrey Lindsey Templeton / Boss Baby in Hindi.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Prasad, Amrita (1 November 2019). "Kashmir is one of the most beautiful scenic locations to shoot: Sumit Kaul". Times of India. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2023. I am originally a Kashmiri Pandit (my family was unceremoniously kicked out of Kashmir)
^ Mulchandani, Amrita (13 June 2011). "Positive approach: Sumit Kaul". Times of India. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2023. Sumit shares how his family was thrown out of Kashmir during the wars, because they were Kashmiri pandits.
^ Bhatia, Saloni (12 October 2014). "Sumit Kaul: I love the chaat you get in Delhi". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
^ "Voice veteran of 100 Hollywood films, Sumit Kaul, to dub for Predator". Hindustan Times. 2 September 2018.
^ "Nazar's Sumit Kaul considers it challenging to play a father to a 20-year-old girl - Times of India". The Times of India. 9 August 2018.
^ ^a ^b "My green eyes got me '24' role: Sumit Kaul". Zee News. 28 July 2016.
^ "It's been a wonderful journey: Sumit Kaul on 'Ashoka Samrat'". 15 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Sumit Kaul takes up supernatural show". Telangana Today.
^ "'Tanaav,' Indian adaptation of 'Fauda' to stream on Sony LIV from November 11". The Hindu. 18 October 2022 – via www.thehindu.com.

External links

Sumit Kaul at IMDb

[auto1-1] Prasad, Amrita (1 November 2019). "Kashmir is one of the most beautiful scenic locations to shoot: Sumit Kaul". Times of India. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2023. I am originally a Kashmiri Pandit (my family was unceremoniously kicked out of Kashmir)

[2] Mulchandani, Amrita (13 June 2011). "Positive approach: Sumit Kaul". Times of India. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2023. Sumit shares how his family was thrown out of Kashmir during the wars, because they were Kashmiri pandits.

[3] Bhatia, Saloni (12 October 2014). "Sumit Kaul: I love the chaat you get in Delhi". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

[4] "Voice veteran of 100 Hollywood films, Sumit Kaul, to dub for Predator". Hindustan Times. 2 September 2018.

[5] "Nazar's Sumit Kaul considers it challenging to play a father to a 20-year-old girl - Times of India". The Times of India. 9 August 2018.

[auto2-6] "My green eyes got me '24' role: Sumit Kaul". Zee News. 28 July 2016.

[7] "It's been a wonderful journey: Sumit Kaul on 'Ashoka Samrat'". 15 July 2015.

[auto-8] "Sumit Kaul takes up supernatural show". Telangana Today.

[9] "'Tanaav,' Indian adaptation of 'Fauda' to stream on Sony LIV from November 11". The Hindu. 18 October 2022 – via www.thehindu.com.

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