Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub

Acting

Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub

Place of birth

Delhi, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub Khan is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films. He is frequently cast in supporting roles, and has appeared in more than 25 films in a career which has spanned eight years. He has also worked in a Hindi serial "Kyunki... Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai" which was telecasted on Doordarshan in 2008. He has collaborated with director Aanand L. Rai on four films.

Known for

Hunkkaar: The Roar poster
8.0

When a teenager accuses a revered cult leader of sexual assault, it sparks a national conflict. As the truth unravels, the line between faith and justice blurs.

Hunkkaar: The Roar

2026

Criminal Justice: A Family Matter poster
7.7

Attorney Madhav Mishra represents Raj Nagpal, discovered with murdered nurse Roshni Saluja after his child's party. As the trial unfolds, hidden facts emerge, questioning identities.

Criminal Justice: A Family Matter

2025

Thugs of Hindostan poster
5.5

After the British company’s officer Clive takes over the kingdom of Mirza, Princess Zafira and Khudabaksh aka Azaad form a band of rebel pirates who swear to defeat the English officer and win their freedom back. The British Company in return, hire the wily thug Firangi track Azaad’s gang and thwart his plans.

Thugs of Hindostan

2018

Sankalp poster
6.0

SANKALP is a premium Indian socio-political drama that explores how power is manufactured not through elections, but through mentorship and institutional control. Inspired by the ancient Chanakya–Chandragupta chronicles, the series reimagines political strategy for modern India, where classrooms replace battlefields and bureaucrats replace soldiers.

Sankalp

2026

Bloody Brothers poster
7.0

Driving home late one night, two brothers, Jaggi and Daljeet run over an old man. They put the body back in his house, but when people suspect, the brothers' lives fall apart. They realise they can trust no one. Not even each other.

Bloody Brothers

2022

Tandav poster
5.7

Tandav is the coming together of different worlds under the gamut of politics. It is a dramatic take of the powerplay between people at the highest level where they get overthrown by others to secure their position. Young and upcoming student politicians are also featured and we get to see where their future is headed in this dark abyss of politics.

Tandav

2021

Film credits

2020s · 13 titles

Sam Bahadur poster
7.0

Based on the life of Sam Manekshaw, who was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.

Sam Bahadur

2023

Assi poster
6.2

When Parima, a school teacher in Delhi, is gang-raped on her way home late at night after an office party, Raavi, a prosecution lawyer, fights tooth and nail to help her get justice. But when eighty sexual assault cases are reported in India every single day, regardless of age group, ethnicity, time, or place, and only four go to trial, what does justice really mean?

Assi

2026

Tere Ishk Mein poster
5.4

A psychology student attempts to rehabilitate a volatile young man, before evolving into a doomed romance.

Tere Ishk Mein

2025

Nishaanchi 2 poster
5.8

After another stint in jail, Tony finds that Rinku, his one true love and hope, has been taken by his brother Dabloo. This shocks him into reforming, but Ambika drags him back into crime, with Kamal on his trail. How Manjari gets to have the last laugh, with Tony, Ambika and Kamal at the forefront, forms the rest of the two-part gangster drama.

Nishaanchi 2

2025

DNA poster
6.1

A young woman with borderline personality disorder, fights a lonely battle when she believes her newborn baby was swapped with someone else’s minutes after her delivery. Her loving husband, who initially doubts, eventually believes and starts investigating with an experienced cop.

DNA

2025

Nishaanchi poster
6.1

Twin brothers, identical looks but different values, face brotherhood, betrayal, love, and redemption. Their paths weave through crime into a deeper story of human nature and its results.

Nishaanchi

2025

Chhalaang poster
6.2

Chhalaang humorously addresses the value of Sports Education in the school curriculum. It follows a hilarious, yet an inspirational journey of a typical PT Master from a semi government-funded school in Northern India, Montu, for whom it’s just a job and is forced to do what he has never done - Teach.

Chhalaang

2020

Jogi poster
6.9

Amid tension in 1980s India, three friends of different faiths unite in a noble yet dangerous effort to save hundreds in their town.

Jogi

2022

Eetha poster
NR

Vithabai Narayangaonkar, a renowned Marathi Tamasha and Lavani performer rises from humble beginnings to become one of Maharashtra's most celebrated folk theatre artists.

Eetha

2026

Haddi poster
5.1

A transgender woman, Haddi, moves to Delhi to join a gang of transpeople and cross-dressers headed by an influential man. But is this move aspirational or driven by revenge?

Haddi

2023

Joram poster
7.5

A father is on the run with his little baby girl to escape the ghosts of his past and the forces that want him dead.

Joram

2023

Our Share of Sand poster
NR

After years apart, 12 year-old Maya returns to India with her mother to reunite with her father - a sandmining business man. Immersed in a world where labour, legacy and extraction collide, she forms a fragile bond with Kiran, a young worker. After a tragic event, a police investigation turns Maya into a key witness, with her father relying on her to absolve him. Torn between loyalty and a growing unease she cannot name, Maya begins searching for the truth. As her mother quietly unravels, Maya uncovers a pattern of silence, exploitation and repeated harm forcing her to confront her father's deception and the family's complicity she must choose to break.

Our Share of Sand

2026

Kaalidhar Laapata poster
7.8

An ageing Kaalidhar escapes his family after overhearing their plans to abandon him. He meets the free-spirited Ballu, and they embark on an adventure to tick things off Kaalidhar's bucket list.

Kaalidhar Laapata

2025

2010s · 22 titles

Thugs of Hindostan poster
5.5

After the British company’s officer Clive takes over the kingdom of Mirza, Princess Zafira and Khudabaksh aka Azaad form a band of rebel pirates who swear to defeat the English officer and win their freedom back. The British Company in return, hire the wily thug Firangi track Azaad’s gang and thwart his plans.

Thugs of Hindostan

2018

Zero poster
5.2

Short in stature but big on love, a bachelor meets two very different women who broaden his horizons and help him find purpose in life.

Zero

2018

Raees poster
6.6

Set in the early ’80s and ’90s in Gujarat, India, ‘Raees’ is a fictitious story of a crime lord named Raees, who builds an entire empire from scratch, and a police officer who is determined to bring him down.

Raees

2017

Phantom poster
5.6

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.

Phantom

2015

Article 15 poster
7.6

A young IPS officer’s new posting in rural India has him confronting caste disparities and uncomfortable truths in the face of a gruesome crime. When three girls go missing in the fictional village of Lalgaon, two of them are found dead and there is no trace of the third one. Where is she and who is responsible for this heinous act?

Article 15

2019

Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi poster
6.5

Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the British Rule.

Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi

2019

Raanjhanaa poster
6.6

A small-town boy needs to break through the class divide to gain acceptance from his childhood sweetheart who is in love with big city ideals.

Raanjhanaa

2013

Tubelight poster
5.3

Laxman Singh Bisht is nicknamed tube light by his neighbours because he is feeble-minded. Despite being special, Laxman lives by one life-lesson; keep your faith alive and you can do almost anything, even stop a war.

Tubelight

2017

Jannat 2 poster
6.2

Sonu Dilli KKC, an illegal arms dealer is chased around by ACP Pratap Raghuvanshi. On the other hand, Sonu falls for Dr Jhanvi Singh Tomar. However, Sonu's life is turned upside-down, when he realises that Dr Jhanvi is the daughter of Mangal Singh Tomar, an illegal arms kingpin. Will Sonu survive the difficult times ahead?

Jannat 2

2012

Tanu Weds Manu: Returns poster
6.9

After Tanu and Manu's marriage breaks apart, the latter finds himself smitten by Datto, a lookalike of his ex-wife. But the estranged couple's feelings begin to spark again.

Tanu Weds Manu: Returns

2015

Mission Mangal poster
6.6

A team of Indian scientists at ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) take on the extraordinary task of successfully sending a satellite into the orbit of planet Mars in a country's maiden attempt.

Mission Mangal

2019

No One Killed Jessica poster
6.8

The true story of model Jessica Lall who was shot dead in a restaurant and the campaign to bring her killer to justice.

No One Killed Jessica

2011

Dolly Ki Doli poster
5.2

Dolly, an attractive woman, fakes marriages and runs away stealing all the precious belongings of the groom and his family. Dolly's modus operandi is to get her fake brother to identify prospective grooms & then entice these men to fall in love with her. Attracted by her charms, these prospective grooms are ready to do anything for dolly including going against their parents' wishes to marry her.

Dolly Ki Doli

2015

Mere Brother Ki Dulhan poster
6.0

A Mumbai man finds himself in an unpredictable situation when the prospective bride of his older brother is a woman he has history with.

Mere Brother Ki Dulhan

2011

Raja Natwarlal poster
6.4

Based on the story of a notorious real-life con man, this twisty Bollywood thriller revolves around cunning fraudster Raja Natwarlal, who pulls off a series of two-bit scams in Mumbai on his way to a big swindle. A small-time con man wants to get into the big leagues and take on a Goliath in the world of scams.

Raja Natwarlal

2014

All Is Well poster
5.6

A road trip, undertaken by Rishi Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan, is later joined by their mother.

All Is Well

2015

Shahid poster
7.3

A story based on real-life human-rights and criminal lawyer, Shahid Azmi, who was slain while defending the wrongly accused by the law in terrorist activities.

Shahid

2013

Arjun Patiala poster
4.3

This spoof comedy narrates the story of a cop Arjun Patiala and his sidekick Onidda Singh. Together, will they be able to accomplish their mission of a crime-free town with their goofy style of policing?

Arjun Patiala

2019

377 Ab Normal poster
6.0

The journey of five petitioners who challenged Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Witness the struggles of the LGBT community, and the landmark judgment that marked the beginning of a new era of equality.

377 Ab Normal

2019

Toyhouse poster
NR

Using toys as a metaphor, the film shows how dreams can be shaped or broken by society’s pressures.

Toyhouse

2019

Maazii poster
4.0

Tarun and his wife Shrishti are living a happy life with there daughter . One day to save the Honor of a woman, Tarun accidentally kills two gangsters. After this his black past unfolds and starts haunting his present life. Tarun has to go back to his roots and get out of his past to make his family secure and happy.

Maazii

2013

Sameer poster
6.2

After a series of bomb blasts in Hyderabad a special ATS team lead by officer Desai name Yasin Darji as the suspect. Following a tip-off the team reaches a location to arrest Yasin only to end up arresting Sameer, the wrong guy. While the error needs to be fixed, the higher authorities decide to bargain with Sameer for his freedom, sending him as a mole. Sameer turns a mole to stop Yasin Darji before he kills more innocent people. A chase begins. Will they manage to stop Yasin, or will Yasin trump?

Sameer

2017

Undated · 3 titles

Series credits

Hunkkaar: The Roar poster
8.0

When a teenager accuses a revered cult leader of sexual assault, it sparks a national conflict. As the truth unravels, the line between faith and justice blurs.

Hunkkaar: The Roar

2026

Criminal Justice: A Family Matter poster
7.7

Attorney Madhav Mishra represents Raj Nagpal, discovered with murdered nurse Roshni Saluja after his child's party. As the trial unfolds, hidden facts emerge, questioning identities.

Criminal Justice: A Family Matter

2025

Sankalp poster
6.0

SANKALP is a premium Indian socio-political drama that explores how power is manufactured not through elections, but through mentorship and institutional control. Inspired by the ancient Chanakya–Chandragupta chronicles, the series reimagines political strategy for modern India, where classrooms replace battlefields and bureaucrats replace soldiers.

Sankalp

2026

Bloody Brothers poster
7.0

Driving home late one night, two brothers, Jaggi and Daljeet run over an old man. They put the body back in his house, but when people suspect, the brothers' lives fall apart. They realise they can trust no one. Not even each other.

Bloody Brothers

2022

Tandav poster
5.7

Tandav is the coming together of different worlds under the gamut of politics. It is a dramatic take of the powerplay between people at the highest level where they get overthrown by others to secure their position. Young and upcoming student politicians are also featured and we get to see where their future is headed in this dark abyss of politics.

Tandav

2021

Scoop poster
6.3

The shocking murder of a journalist thrusts a leading crime reporter into a nexus of police, media and the Mumbai underworld as she fights for justice.

Scoop

2023

Real Kashmir Football Club poster
4.5

Inspired by the true story of a Kashmiri Hindu Pandit and a Kashmiri Muslim responsible for the formation of the Real Kashmir Football Club, the first ever club from Jammu and Kashmir to compete in any top-flight football league in India.

Real Kashmir Football Club

2025

Kanneda poster
4.0

Against the backdrop of 1990s Toronto, a Punjabi singer's journey from street performer to rising star leads him into dangerous territory.

Kanneda

2025

A Simple Murder poster
7.5

A failed entrepreneur, Manish, has a lot going on in life, personal and professional, when he finds himself involved in a case of mistaken identity and ends up getting a contract to kill a young girl, along with an advance of five lakh rupees. The target is the daughter of an influential politician, who has his eyes on the Hoshiarpur ticket. Amid the chaos, Manish, and his wife, Richa must make choices where either greed will get the better of them or they will find their lost sense of self worth.

A Simple Murder

2020