

Siddiqui then appeared in the 2012 film Kahaani, in which he played the archetypal short-tempered intelligence officer Khan. and Canada, and garnered much attention with rave reviews from The New York Times. The film was subsequently released in the U.S. Siddiqui's performance was praised by film critic Roger Ebert, who stated that the role "transformed his acting style" and he awarded the actor the 'Thumbsup Trophy'.

In 2012, he appeared in Prashant Bhargava's Patang: The Kite, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. However, it was his role of a journalist in Anusha Rizvi's 2010 film Peepli Live, that first got him wide recognition as an actor. In the same year, he appeared in New York. He performed a duet with Rasila (known together as Patna ke Presley).
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In 2009, he appeared in a cameo role in the song "Emotional Atyachar" in the movie Dev D, playing the role of Rangila. īetween 20, Siddiqui had a few minor roles, including in the film Black Friday, which came out in 2007 and was a nominee for the Golden Leopard. The senior allowed him to share his apartment in Goregaon suburb if he was willing to cook meals for him. He asked an NSD senior if he could stay with him. In 2004, which was one of the worst years of his struggle, Siddiqui couldn't pay rent. Beyond that, between 20, he was largely out of work and lived in a flat that he shared with four other people, surviving by conducting occasional acting workshops. He did a short film, The Bypass, in 2003, where he appeared with Irrfan Khan. After moving to Mumbai, he tried to get work in television serials, but did not achieve much success. He then appeared in Ram Gopal Varma's 1999 film Shool and the 2000 film Jungle, as well as Rajkumar Hirani's Munnabhai MBBS (2003). He made his Bollywood debut in the year 1999 with a small role in the Aamir Khan starrer Sarfarosh. After graduating in 1999, he moved to Mumbai. Siddiqui went to the National School of Drama in New Delhi. In pursuit of securing admission to the National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi, he acted in over ten plays with a group of friends, including one in Dehradun, to fulfill one of the criteria for admission. Once in Delhi, he was instantly drawn to acting after watching a play. Following this, he worked as a chemist in Vadodara for a year, before leaving for Delhi in search of a new job. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar. He spent most of his youth in Uttarakhand. Siddiqui was born on in Budhana, a small town in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India, into a zamindari Muslim family of Lambardars.
