Career
Zerifa Wahid started her career in acting as a child artiste by making her debut in the Assamese Feature film Abhimaan in 1989. Hailing a brilliant academic career, she managed to continue with her passion for acting and worked as a leading Heroine in numerous Assamese Feature Films, Television Serials, Video Films, Music albums and TV commercials. A very young school going Zerifa played leading heroine in films like Agnigarh, Dhua etc. She became the darling of the masses playing the lead heroine in Zubeen Garg's Tumi Mor Mathu Mor. Blessed with timeless beauty and acting skill, Zerifa excelled in playing characters which were modern and progressive in outlook. Some of her successful films include Seuji Dharani Dhuniya, Anya Ek Jatra, Gun Gun Gane Gane, Agnisakhi (for which she was awarded Best Actress by the Govt. of Assam), Nayak, Kadambari, Prem Geet, Deuta Diya Bidai, Ahir Bhairav etc. In Antaheen Jatra, Zerifa redefined the beauty of a rural girl in bare minimum getup. She looked a million buck as a young girl brought up in London suffering from Schizophrenia(2008) where she appeared sans any makeup. Ahir Bhairav is the first Assamese feature film to be shot entirely in London.
Zerifa Wahid is one heroine of Assamese cinema who bears a beautiful and compassionate personality having branched out in many sectors of Social Works, film and theatre productions. Zerifa is the Ambassador for ASSAM AUTISM FOUNDATION and SPECIAL OLYMPICS BHARAT (ASSAM CHAPTER).
Zerifa Wahid is the first heroine of Assamese Cinema to have launched her production house under the name of ZERIFA WAHID PRODUCTION. Being very intimately associated with the Theatre movement in Assam with powerful performances in several Stage Plays and who loves to call herselves a Theatre Worker, Zerifa has successfully acted and produced well-known Stage Plays like Girish Karnad's The Fire And The Rain, the Assamese version of which was named Agnibrishti, British Dramatist's Peter Shaffer's Five Finger Exercise, the Assamese Adaptation of which was named Pancharatna, Girish Karnad's "Nagamandala" etc. Nagamandala was selected in the prestigious MAHINDRA EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE AWARDS 2012 with ten nominations and was staged in Delhi on 5th March 2012.
Jahnu Baruah's Baandhon and Bidyut Chakravarty's "Dwaar" (former called The Gateway) shall further solidify the position of Zerifa Wahid as a Leading Lady of Assamese cinema.
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