Actor Prashantt Guptha bagged the 10th National Excellence Award for Best Villain with his debut film, Issaq (2013). He will now be seen in Rahat Kazmi’s Identity Card that releases on August 29. Prashantt plays a Kashmiri cop in the film that has Saurabh Shukla, Vipin Sharma, Raghubir Yadav, Brijendra Kala and Tia Bajpai in the cast. The film highlights the importance of an identity card in Kashmir, as without it, a person can be interrogated, arrested and labelled a terrorist. This will be his second film as a cop after Issaq.

Prashantt Guptha