Amit Sial is an Indian actor from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He graduated
B.Com. (Hons) 1993-96 from Delhi College of Arts and Commerce. He
obtained his Post-Graduation diploma in International Business from
Swinburne University of Technology from Melbourne, Australia. During
the same time, he did a lot of theater work in Melbourne. He did his
professional theater training in Delhi, India with Theater Action
Group (TAG) under Barry John (1994â€"1997). He got noticed for his
work in director Dibakar Banerjee's film Love Sex aur Dhokha, where he
played a sting journalist, Prabhat, who is on the verge of committing
suicide.Sial was born and brought up in old Kanpur. He did his
schooling from Sheiling House School, Kanpur. His father was into the
leather business and his mother was a librarian. He has a younger
brother who is a Chartered Accountant.Sial wanted to become an actor
since the age of 8, when he saw actor Amitabh Bachchan for the first
time on the silver screen. It was his mother who pushed him into
acting and other extra-curricular activities after noticing where his
true interests lied. From there on, he participated in a lot of
theatre activities in Kanpur and continued the same in Delhi on a more
proficient basis with his first professional play being Blood
Brothers, a musical by Willy Russel and directed for stage by Barry
John in 1995. As acting was not considered a very "safe" profession in
those days, he succumbed under family pressure to pursue a
Post-Graduation Diploma in International Business from Melbourne,
Australia. He eventually returned to India and worked in Delhi as a
Franchise development director for a playschool company for a couple
of years (2003). But not being able to overcome his passion for
acting, he decided to quit the corporate world and return to theatre
instead. To support his passion, he also opened a take-away joint in
East Delhi. Finally in 2004 he moved to Mumbai and settled down as a
professional actor. In late 2004, Sial was recommended to Indian
director Tanuja Chandra for an Indian-American film, Hope and a Little
Sugar. And he was selected to play the protagonist after giving a
grueling audition. His other noticeable films as an actor are Love Sex
aur Dhokha aka LSD by Dibakar Banerjee, Phas Gaye Re Obama by Subhash
Kapoor and Peter Gaya Kaam Se, by John Owen, besides many other
shorts. Amit Sial Top Movies & Young Movies