He is best known to international audiences for his portrayal of Maulana Azad, a leading figure of the Indian independence movement, in the 1982 biographical film Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough.
[1] Virendra Razdan was born on 6 March 1951 to a middle class Brahmin family at Srinagar, Kashmir, India.
It was during 1979-80 that Sir Richard Attenborough visited India in search of talented indian actors for his upcoming movie Gandhi.
Attenborough visited NSD as it was the biggest premier Institute for acting and discovered Mr. Razdan along with a pool of talented theatre artists for his film.
His next project was B.R Chopra’s Mahabharat where he played Vidur which again was the biggest success story in indian Television History.