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Irrfan Khan

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Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan, credited as Irrfan Khan or simply Irrfan, is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Bollywood. He is also known for his works in British Indian films, Hollywood ventures, and a Telugu film. Wikipedia
Born: January 7, 1967 (age 47), Jaipur
Height: 1.83 m
Spouse: Sutapa Sikdar (m. 1995)
Children: Ayaan Khan, Babil Khan
Awards: National Film Award for Best Actor, more
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Irrfan Khan
Khan at the press conference of director Ang Lee's Life of Pi (2012) at New Delhi
Born	Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan^[1] 7 January 1967 (age 47)^[2] Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Other names	Irfan
Ethnicity	Pathan
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1988–present
Religion	Islam
Spouse(s)	Sutapa (1995–present)
Website
www.irrfan.com

Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan (born 7 January 1967), credited as Irrfan Khanor simply Irrfan, is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly inBollywood. He is also known for his works in British Indian films, Hollywoodventures, and a Telugu film.^[3]^[4]

In India, Khan gained the reputation of a skilled actor from his roles in Bollywood movies such as The Warrior, Maqbool, Haasil, Charas: A Joint Effort, Paan Singh Tomar, Knock Out, Gunday, The Lunchbox, and Rog. He also hosted the TV show Mano Ya Na Mano and appeared in popularVodafone commercials. In 2012 he appeared in the title role in Paan Singh Tomar, a biopic about an athlete. Both the movie and Khan's performance received critical acclaim. As of 2013, he had appeared in more than 30 films in Bollywood.

Khan's English-language mainstream work includes character roles in movies like The Namesake, New York, I Love You, A Mighty Heart,Slumdog Millionaire, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Life of Pi, as well as in the HBO series In Treatment.

Khan has won three Filmfare Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and anIndependent Spirit Award nomination. He is also the recipient of 2011Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award in India. He has garnered the National Film Award for Best Actor in the 60th National Film Awards 2012, for his performance in Paan Singh Tomar.^[5]

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Early life[edit]

Khan was born in Jaipur, to a Muslim family. Khan's mother, Begum, was from the Tonk Hakim family, and his father, the late Jagirdar, was from the Khajuriya village near the Tonk district and ran a tyre business.^[6]^[7]^[8] Khan was studying for his MA degree when he earned a scholarship to study at National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi in 1984.

Career[edit]

Khan moved to Mumbai, where he acted in numerous television serials, including Chanakya, Bharat Ek Khoj, Sara Jahan Hamara, Banegi Apni Baat, Chandrakanta (Doordarshan), "AnooGoonj" on "Doordarshan" Star Bestsellers (Star Plus), and Sparsh. Earlier, he had acted in a teleplay on Doordarshan named Laal Ghaas Par Neele Ghode where he playedLenin. It was based on a translation by Uday Prakash of a Russian play by Mikhail Shatrov. He was the main villain in a series called Darr (which aired on Star Plus), where he played the role of a psycho serial killer, opposite Kay Kay Menon. He also played the role of famous revolutionary Urdu poet and Marxist political activist of India Makhdoom Mohiuddin inKahkashan, produced by Ali Sardar Jafri.

He acted in some of the episodes of Star Bestsellers (aired on Star-Plus). In one of the episodes (Ek Sham Ki Mulakat), his role was of a parchoon shopkeeper who has a misconception that his landlord's wife is trying to seduce him and it turns out that his own wife (Tisca Chopra) is cheating on him. In the other one, he played the role of an office accountant who, after being insulted by his female boss, took revenge. He also appeared in a serial called Bhanvar (aired on SET India) for two episodes. In one episode, he performed the role of a thug who somehow lands in court. Theatre and television kept him afloat until Mira Nair offered him a cameo in Salaam Bombay! (1988) though his role was edited out in the final film.

In the 1990s he appeared in the critically acclaimed films Ek Doctor Ki Maut and Such a Long Journey (1998) and various other films which went unnoticed. After many unsuccessful films, things changed when London-based director Asif Kapadia gave him the lead in The Warrior, a historical film completed in 11 weeks on location in Himachal Pradesh andRajasthan. In 2001 The Warrior opened in international film festivals, making Khan a known face.^[9]

In 2003–04 he acted in Ashvin Kumar's short film, "Road to Ladakh". After the film received rave reviews^[10] at international festivals, the film is now being made into a full-length feature starring Khan.^[11] That same year he played the title role in the critically acclaimed Maqbool, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

His first Bollywood lead role came in 2005 with film Rog. His performance was praised by critics; one wrote, "Irfaan's eyes speak louder than his words and every time he is in frame, be it talking to his buddy Munish or arguing with Suhel, he shows his capability as an actor".^[12] Thereafter he appeared in several films either playing the leading role or a supporting role as a villain. In 2004 he won the Filmfare Best Villain Award for his role in film Haasil. Critics praised his performance in Haasil, saying that "as the ambitious, brash, fearless goon who is mind-blowing. He is outright scary and makes you sit up, wondering what he'll do next".^[13]

In 2007, he appeared in the box office hits Metro, for which he received a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, and The Namesake. His chemistry with Konkana Sen in Metro was one of the highlights of the Multi-star movie. They were closely followed by his appearance in the international films A Mighty Heart and The Darjeeling Limited.

Even after becoming a successful actor in Bollywood, he has not severed his ties with television. He anchored a showMano Ya Na Mano (airing on Star One). He hosted another programme named Kyaa Kahein which was similar to Mano Ya Na Mano.

In 2008, he was featured as a narrator in an Arts Alliance production, id – Identity of the Soul. The performance toured worldwide, with tens of thousands turning out to see the event as it toured the West Bank. He also plays the police inspector in the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, for which he and the cast of the movie won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. About him, Danny Boyle said, "he has an instinctive way of finding the "moral center" of any character, so that in Slumdog, we believe the policeman might actually conclude that Jamal is innocent. Boyle compares him to an athlete who can execute the same move perfectly over and over. "It's beautiful to watch."^[14]

In 2009, he featured in the film Acid Factory. Khan has stated that he wants to do more action films in the future.^[15] He also appeared as an FBI agent in New York and as a Gujarati diamond merchant in New York, I Love You. His latest film,Paan Singh Tomar, about real-life Rajput runner Paan Singh Tomar, has received extremely favourable reviews by critics.

He recently worked on the third season of the HBO series In Treatment, enacting the part of Sunil, who is finding it difficult to come to terms with his wife's death and loneliness after moving to New York.

Khan played Dr. Rajit Ratha in The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012.^[16] Khan played the adult version of Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel in the film adaptation of Life of Pi. In both Spider-Man and Life of Pi, Khan's characters refer to a Richard Parker, Peter Parker's father and a Bengal Tiger respectively.

In 2014, Khan appeared in Gunday, which was a moderate box office success. He also made guest appearances in the films The Xpose and Haider, playing an important role in the latter. On 28 February 2014, Khan was cast as an antagonist in the upcoming 2015 film Jurassic World.

Personal life[edit]

On 23 February 1995, Khan married writer Sutapa Sikdar, who is also an NSD graduate. They have two children named Babil and Aryan.^[1]

He has two brothers, Imran Khan and Salman Khan and one sister Rukhsana Begum.

Sutapa said about him, "He was always focused. I remember when he would come home, he would head straight for the bedroom, sit on the floor, and read books. The rest of us would be hanging around gossiping." Even now, as reads through at least one new Hollywood script a week, he believes in doing his homework, staying up till 3 in the morning, taking notes, trying to understand ways to play his character. Sikdar recalls how he would demand as many as 11 rewrites from her when he directed episodes of Banegi Apni Baat. "Once he dragged me to a police station in Mumbai to understand procedure," she recalls.^[17] Recently, he has changed his name to Irrfan. He also said he likes the sound of the extra "r" in his name.^[18]

Awards[edit]

Wins[edit]

Filmography[edit]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1988	Salaam Bombay!	Letter writer
1989	Kamla Ki Maut	Ajit
1989	Jazeere	Alfred
1990	Drishti	Rahul
1991	Ek Doctor Ki Maut	Amulya
1991	Pita (The Father)	Dr.Sen	^[22]
1993	Karamati Coat	Jaggu
1998	Bada Din	Police Inspector
1999	The Goal	The Coach
2000	Ghaath	Mamu / Romesh Bhagwat Dogra
2001	The Warrior	Lafcadia – Warrior	British-Indian Film
2001	Kasoor	Public Prosecutor
2002	Pratha	Priest Ninni Pandey
	Kali Salwaar	Shankar
	Gunaah	Police Inspector Digvijay Pandey
	Haathi ka Anda
2003	Haasil	Ranvijay Singh	Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role
	Footpath	Sheik
	Maqbool	Maqbool
	The Bypass	Cop
2004	Shadows of Time	Yani Mishra	Bengali/German film
	Aan: Men at Work	Yusuf Pathan
	Road to Ladakh	Terrorist	Short film
	Charas: A Joint Operation	Ranbhir Singh Rathore
2005	Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets	Pipi
	Rog	Inspector Uday Rathore
	Chehraa	Chandranath Diwan
	7½ Phere	Manoj
2006	Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota	Salim Rajabali
	Mr 100 %- The real player	Vishal
	The Killer	Vikram/Roopchand Swaroopchand Solanki
	Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante	Krish Vaidya
	Sainikudu	Pappu Yadav	Telugu film
2007	A Mighty Heart	Mir Zubair Mahmood, East Karachi Deputy Inspector General	Hollywood Film
	Life in a... Metro	Monty	Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor
	The Namesake	Ashoke Ganguli	Hollywood Film
	The Darjeeling Limited	The Father
	Apna Asmaan	Ravi Kumar
	Aaja Nachle	Farooque, Najma's husband
	Partition	Avtar	Canada film
2008	Tulsi	Suraj
	Sunday	Kumar
	Krazzy 4	Dr. Mukherjee
	Mumbai Meri Jaan	Thomas
	Slumdog Millionaire	Police Inspector	British film
	Chamku	Vishal Kapoor
	Dil Kabaddi	Samit
2009	Acid Factory	Kaizar
	Billu	Billu/Vilas Pardesi
	New York	Roshan (FBI Official)
	New York, I Love You	Mansuhkhbai	Hollywood Film
2010	Right Yaaa Wrong	Vinay Patnaik
	Hisss	Vikram Gupta
	Knock Out	Bacchoo/ Tony Khosla
2011	Yeh Saali Zindagi	Arun
	7 Khoon Maaf	Wasiullah Khan a.k.a. Musafir
	Thank You	Vikram
2012	Paan Singh Tomar	Paan Singh Tomar	National Film Award for Best Actor Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor
	The Amazing Spider-Man	Dr. Rajit Ratha	Hollywood Film
	Life of Pi	Adult Piscine Molitor Patel ("Pi")	Hollywood Film
2013	Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns	Indrajeet Singh aka Raja Bhaiyya
	D-Day	Wali Khan
	The Lunchbox	Saajan Fernandez
	Qissa	Umber Singh	Punjabi Film
	Siddharth	Siddharth / Chai Kid / Kamathipura Child
2014	Gunday	A.C.P. Satyajeet Sarkar
	The Xpose	Alec D'Costa	Cameo appearance
	Haider	Roohdaar
2015	Tumbad		In Production
	Piku		To be released on 30 April 2015^[23]
	Jurassic World	Masrani	Post-production; to be released on 12 June 2015
	Who Shot the Sheriff ?	Lloyd Matthews	Pre-production^[24]
	Durga Rani Singh		Announced^[25]

Television[edit]

Year	Show	Role	Notes
1987	Srikant
1988	Bharat Ek Khoj
1992	Chanakya	"Senapati" Bhadrashal
1994	Chandrakanta	"Badrinath/Somnath"
1994	The Great Maratha	Najib-ud-daula and Gulam Kadir Khan
1995	Banegi Apni Baat
1997	Just Mohabbat	"Mr. Singh" a.k.a "Psycho Singh" a.k.a "Psycho Uncle"	He plays a teacher.^[26]
	Jai Hanuman	Maharishi Valmiki
	Bombay Blue	Rameez
1999	Star Bestsellers	Ek Shaam Ke Mulaqaat
2004	Kyaa Kahein	Host
2006	Mano Ya Na Mano	Host
2009	Mtv Hero Honda Roadies 7	Himself
2010	In Treatment	Sunil

References[edit]

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Jump up^ "Irrfan turns 47". Bollywood Hungama. 13 January 2013.
Jump up^ "Irrfan drops 'Khan'". News.avstv.com. Retrieved2012-07-21.
Jump up^ Jha, Subhash K (7 March 2012). "Irrfan drops his surname Khan". Mid-day.com. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
Jump up^ "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved18 March 2013.
Jump up^ "Cutting across roles". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 14 February 2009.
Jump up^ "Irrfan Khan". Irrfan.com. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
Jump up^ O'Connor, Ashling (27 March 2007). "From Bollywood to Boston". London: Times Online. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
Jump up^ "I now see myself in new light: Irfan Khan". IndiaGlitz. 23 April 2004. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
Jump up^ Road of Ladakh Short Film
Jump up^ Irrfan Khan goes to Hollywood,Rediff movies
Jump up^ "Movie Review of Rog – Irfaan bangs into commercial cinema too – Bollywood Articles". SmasHits.com. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
Jump up^ "'Haasil' is not for everybody". Rediff.com. 16 May 2003. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
Jump up^ "Keeping It Real". Time. 15 February 2010.
Jump up^ "I want to do more and more of action films".
Jump up^ Bhushan, Nyay (28 June 2012). "'The Amazing Spider-Man' Gets Widest-Ever India Release for A Hollywood Film". The Hollywood Reporter.
Jump up^ "Irrfan Khan turns India's best known international actor : Profile – India Today". Indiatoday.intoday.in. 22 April 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
Jump up^ "Paan Singh Tomar has become a symbol: Irrfan". IBN Live. 4 March 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
Jump up^ "Kajol, Tabu, Irrfan Khan get Padma Shri". IBN Live. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
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Jump up^ "Big B, Deepika and Irrfan starrer Piku slated for a April 2015 release". First Post. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
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Jump up^ "Just Mohabbat: Episode 4, from SET India official Youtube channel".

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Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan (born 7 January 1967), credited as Irrfan Khan or simply Irrfan, is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Bollywood.

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