Syed Sahil Agha

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Syed Sahil Agha
Born1982 (age 43–44)
Delhi
CitizenshipIndian
EducationNational School of Drama
Bachelor of Arts (Jamia Millia Islamia)
Diploma in Acting (Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts)
Years active2010-present
Known forDastangoi

Syed Sahil Agha (born 1982) is an Indian storyteller, actor, writer and vintage car collector, who is specialised in the verbal art of Dastangoi, a 13th-century art of oral storytelling in Urdu language. He discovered the old form of QissaKhwani and revived it by naming it QissaGoi and also reintroduced Jumlebaazi, a 13th-century wit and Wordplay oral storytelling art form .[1][2] He is known for his role as Shibli Nomani in the Sir Syed Ahmed Khan: The Messiah, a web-series released on Apple TV.[3][4][5][6]

Early life and education

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Syed Sahil Agha was born in 1982 in Delhi to Sayyed Mansoor Agha, a writer and senior journalist.[7][8] He belongs to the Delhi Gharana originated from Amir Khusrau's Silsila of Sufism.[9][10]

He learnt and did his training at National School of Drama and he completed his Bachelor of Arts from Jamia Millia Islamia and then started to perform as a Dastango in events.[7][11] Later, he did Post Graduate Diploma in Acting from Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts, Delhi.[12]

Career

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Agha gave his first professional Dastangoi performance in 2010 at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, when he was pursuing Bachelor of Arts there.[13][14] He claims his grandfather was the inspiration for his work.[11][15][16]

He has also come up with a new idea of 'Musical Dastangoi' which has an amalgamated storytelling with Indian Opera and Indian classical music.[17]

Agha is the writer of Dastan-e-Hind (2010), a collection of his dastans and Indian folklore, has inspired performances by many artists around the globe.[18][13] He perform solo rather than as part of a pair. His dastans include Nairang-e DastanGoi, Dastan-e-Awadh, Dastan-e-Dard, Dastan-e-Taqseem,[19] Dastan-e-Dastangoi,, Dastan Mehboob-e-Ilahi, Dastan-e-Amir Khusrau,[20] Dastan-e-Shoaib Akhtar,[21][22] Jashn-e-Javed Akhtar,[23] Dastan-e-Chiragh, Dastan-e-Mahatma,[24][25] Dastan-e-Vikram-Betal and Tughlaqnama, Dastan Dilli Ke Shayron ki[26] which have become a hit amongst his audiences.[27][28] His musical storytelling includes Dastan-e-Duvidha, Jashn-e-Virasat, Dilli Durbar,[29][30] Dastan Ishq-e-Meera, Dastan-e-Sahir and many others.[29][30][31][32][33]

He has been a part of Bharatmuni Rang Utsav, Gaatha: Mumbai International Story Telling Festival, Udaipur Tales International Storytelling Festival, Jahan-e-Khusrau, Shimla International Literature Festival, Sahityotsav Cultural Karvan, Jashn-e-Rekhta and Adbi Forum.[9][1][34][35][36][37][38]

Vintage car collection

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Agha, collecting vintage cars is a passion.[39][40] In the past 25 years, he has collected several high-end British and German cars.[41][12]

Filmography

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Television

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Year Show Role Channel Ref
2018 Mirza Ghalib Umrao Begum Writer DD Urdu [1]
2019 Dastangoi Writer and Performer Zee Salaam [9]

Filmography

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Year Film Role Channel Ref
2019 Pari Khana Writer Sood Films [9]
2020 Sanam Khana Writer Netflix [9]

Awards and honours

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In 2022, National Museum, New Delhi honoured Agha with The Grace of Dastangoi and also displayed his costume Angrakha at the Chitram Vastram.[42][43][44]

  • Pradesh Jouhar Award 2017
  • Hafeez Merathi Award 2017 [45]
  • Delhi Minorities Commission Award 2019 [46][47][48]

References

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