New York can be an intimidating/overwhelming city for most people. Evidently not for the perennially unfazed, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui. As we watch him, like in his films, merging into the Manhattan crowd — an Everyman, as it were, only on occasion disturbed by desi selfie-seekers; he generously obliges, while you can tell, he’d rather not! 

Sometimes reticent to a fault (as with interviews as well), no point asking if the atheist Nawaz is going to do a special namaz (prayer), leading up to the International Emmy — the Olympics of world television — where he is nominated for Best Actor (film/series) for Sudhir Mishra’s Serious Men, a Netflix production. This automatically puts his performance among the year’s best in movies and series, across streaming services and network TV worldwide.