Irshad Panjatan (born 7 September 1931) is an Indian actor and veteran mime artist, based in Berlin, who introduced the art form to India during the 1960s.
Over the years he has even acted in a few Hollywood and German films, Manitou's Shoe (2001), Free Rainer (2007), God is No Soprano (2003) and Iron Sky (2012).
Panjatan was born in Hyderabad, where he grew up with seven siblings, including his elder brother, Dr. Abid Hussain (1926 – 2012), who later became an economist, civil servant and diplomat.
The Films Division also made some public service documentary with him, including Kilonewala (1971) and Six, Five, Four, Three, Two (on Family Planning), before he left for his tour outside India, to West Asian and European countries.
[3][7] Over the years, he has acted in a few German and Hollywood films, Iron Sky and God is no Soprano, Der Schuh des Manitu (Manitou's Shoe) (2001), Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale (2003) and Reclaim Your Brain (2007) [8][9] He married Ingrid Sattler in 1975, and opened a mime school in Berlin,[10] where he continues to live.