[citation needed] During his last years in undergraduate school Bamji began acting at Columbia's first professional theatre, Trustus, where the iconoclastic artistic director, Jim Thigpen[6][7] took him under his wing.

In 1994 he was cast in Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, and he and his then wife, Erin Thigpen, sold the car and moved to New York City.

The piece was to revolve around the relationship between two pure mathematicians who lived at the turn of the 20th century, the self-taught genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Cambridge University don, G. H. Hardy.

[20] Over the next four years, A Disappearing Number toured Europe, Australia, India and the United States[21] and finished its universally acclaimed run at the Novello Theatre in London's West End.

[28][29][30][31][32][33][34] He has narrated more than twenty audio books, including The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky,[35] Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Camille by Alexandre Dumas,[36] The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh,[37][38][39] Six Graves to Munich by Mario Puzo, and The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, for which he received an Audie Award nomination.