Irrfan Khan

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Irrfan Khan
Irrfan Khan May 2015.jpg
Khan at radio station Red FM 93.5 in Mumbai, May 2015
Born Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan[1]
(1967-01-07) 7 January 1967 (age 57)[2]
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Nationality Indian
Other names Irrfan
Alma mater National School of Drama
Occupation Film actor
Years active 1988–present
Spouse(s) Sutapa Sikdar (1995–present)
Awards IND Padma Shri BAR.png Padma Shri 2011

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 Hindi cinema. He is also known for his works in British films, and Hollywood.[3][4] Khan was the guest of honour at the 2014 River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival. Film critics, contemporaries, and other experts consider him to be one of the finest actors in Indian cinema for his versatile and natural acting.[5][6] In 2011, Khan received the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour for his contribution to the field of arts.[7]

Khan has garnered the National Film Award for Best Actor in the 60th National Film Awards 2012, for his performance in Paan Singh Tomar.[8] Khan has won the 2014 Asian Film Award for Best Actor, three International Indian Film Academy Awards, three Filmfare Awards, an Independent Spirit Award nomination, and various international honours. He also hosted a Television show and commercials. As of 2015, he had appeared in more than 50 Indian films in Bollywood, and few international films, such as Life of Pi & Jurassic World.[3] Recently, he has been appointed as the brand ambassador for "Resurgent Rajasthan", a campaign by the state government of Rajasthan.[9]

Early life

Khan was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, 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.[10][11][12] 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

Khan moved to Mumbai, where he acted in numerous television serials, including Chanakya, Bharat Ek Khoj, Sara Jahan Hamara, Banegi Apni Baat, Chandrakanta, Shrikant (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 played Lenin. 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 in Kahkashan, 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 and Rajasthan. In 2001 The Warrior opened in international film festivals, making Khan a known face.[13]

In 2003–04 he acted in Ashvin Kumar's short film, "Road to Ladakh". After the film received rave reviews at international festivals,[14] the film is being made into a full-length feature starring Khan.[15] 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".[16] 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".[17] He also played an antagonist in the Telugu film Sainikudu.

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.

Irrfan Khan at Premiere of The Namesake with Tabu

After his success in Bollywood, he has continued his television career. He anchored a show Mano 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."[18]

In 2009, he featured in the film Acid Factory. Khan has stated that he wants to do more action films in the future.[19] He also appeared as an FBI agent in New York and as a Gujarati diamond merchant in New York, I Love You. His film, Paan Singh Tomar, about real-life athlete turned dacoit 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 inThe Amazing Spider-Man in 2012.[20] Khan played the adult version of Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel in the film adaptation of Life of Pi.

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. In 2015, he played lead role in the film Piku alongside Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan. Khan co-starred in the 2015 film Jurassic World that went on to create history by breaking all box office records and making 3000 crore in its opening weekend. He appeared in Jazbaa in October 2015 alongside Aishwarya Rai which was very well received by the critiques. He will also appear alongside Tom Hanks in the 2016 adaptation of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon thriller Inferno.[21]

Personal life

On 23 February 1995, Khan married writer and fellow NSD graduate Sutapa Sikdar. They have two sons, Babil and Ayan.[1]

Sikdar 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 he 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.[22] Recently, he has changed his name to Irrfan. He also said he likes the sound of the extra "r" in his name.[23]

Awards

Civilian honors

National Film Awards
Filmfare Awards

Other awards

Nominations

Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes
1988 Salaam Bombay! Letter writer
1989 Kamla Ki Maut Ajit
Jazeere Alfred
1990 Drishti Rahul
1991 Ek Doctor Ki Maut Amulya
1991 Pita (The Father) Dr.Sen [27]
1993 Karamati Coat Jaggu
1994 The Cloud Door Irfan
1998 Bada Din Police Inspector
1999 The Goal The Coach
2000 Ghaath Mamu / Romesh Bhagwat Dogra
2001 The Warrior Lafcadia – Warrior British-Indian film
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
Dhund: The fog Ajit Khurana [28]
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
Partition Avtar Canadian 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
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 a.k.a. Raja Bhaiyya
D-Day Wali Khan
The Lunchbox Saajan Fernandez
Qissa Umber Singh
2014 Gunday A.C.P. Satyajeet Sarkar
Haider Roohdaar
2015 Piku Rana Chaudhary
Jurassic World Simon Masrani Hollywood film
Talvar Ashwin Kumar, Central Department of Investigation (CDI) officer
Jazbaa Youhan, Suspended Cop
2016 Inferno Harry "The Provost" Sims Hollywood film (Post-production)

Television

Year Show Role Notes
1987 Srikant
1988 Bharat Ek Khoj
1992 Chanakya "Senapati" Bhadrashal
1993 Shesh Prashn Shivnaath, central character Komal's husband
1994 Chandrakanta "Badrinath/Somnath"
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.[29]
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 Raja hindustani
2016 Galaxy World of Alisa August (voice) British English and Hindi dub

Video games

Year Show Role Notes
2015 Lego Jurassic World Simon Masrani
2015 Lego Dimensions Simon Masrani

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