3) Once Upon A Time in Mumbai
Basra essayed the role of Inspector Hussain Khan in Milan Luthria’s cult gangster drama, ‘Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai’ starring Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut and Prachi Desai. Asif played the onscreen father to Emraan Hashmi’s Shoaib Khan.
4) Kai Po Che
Asif also starred in the late Sushant Singh Rajput’s 2013 debut movie, Kai Po Che. In the movie, Sushant’s character Ishaan coaches young cricketer Ali and Asif played the role of Nasir, the young boy’s father.
5) The Tashkent Files
Asif played the role of a journalist, a news channel editor, in the controversial 2019 movie The Tashkent Files, based on the death of India’s former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.
In conversation with TOI, his Tashkent Files director Vivek Agnihotri revealed – “I found him quite fine when he did ‘Tashkent Files’, he was a bit bitter about Bollywood but then I guess many of us are, even I am.”
He further went on to say, “We simply used to talk about how we don’t take good actors seriously in our industry. He used to say yahan ya to phir star hota hai ya everybody else hota hai. Supporting actors are not supported. He had issues about that. But that’s true. I agreed with him.”
