Anupam Tripathi is an Indian actor based in South Korea who is popular for his portrayal of the main role of Abdul Ali in Netflixs South Korean survival drama series Squid Game (2021).He belongs to a middle-class family in New Delhi, India. [5]Manila Bulletin.Initially, he was interested in music and was learning singing. He began thinking about pursuing acting as his career after he acted the role of a slave in a stage production of Spartacus. In an interview, he talked about his experience of acting for the first time and said, I enjoyed every bit of it because in going in front of the audience and expressing myself it was so fascinating to become somebody and then again become myself..He began training in acting in 2006. From 2006 to 2010, he trained under the Indian playwright Shahid Anwar as a part of Anwars theater group Behroop.His initial plan was to join the National School of Drama, New Delhi, India, to train in acting. However, after a friend recommended him to apply for the Arts Major Asian scholarship in South Korea, he gave the required exam for the scholarship and went to South Korea to do majors in acting at the Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea.When he decided to study in South Korea, his family was against it. His father wished for him to stay, study, get a job, and earn in India. His parents thinking changed after he earned the scholarship to study at the Korea National University of Arts.In 2010, he came to South Korea and faced several difficulties in the beginning because of variations in culture, food, and language between India and South Korea. He managed to learn Korean in two years. A picture of Anupam Tripathi from 2010.While he was in the third year of his graduation, he began appearing in theater plays and advertisements in South Korea.The 2014 South Korean film Ode to My Father, his debut feature film, chronicles the journey of a man and his experiences during some of the major events in Korean history, including Hungnam evacuation of 1950 during the Korean War, the governments decision to dispatch nurses and miners to West Germany in the 1960s, and the Vietnam War in the 1950s. The film became an adaption for the Bollywood film Bharat (2019), which was directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and starred Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, and Sunil Grover in main roles.In 2015, Anupam was seen in the play Bolryang Jeongnyeon as Mazar. The play was the 2015 Seoul Theater Festivals official participation and was staged at Daehak-ro Jayu Theater, Seoul. Anupam Tripathi in a scene from Bolryang Jeongnyeon (2015).