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| Born | Zayed Abbas Khan (1980-07-05)5 July 1980 (age 44) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
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| Years active | 2003–2018 |
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| Children | 2 |
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Zayed Abbas Khan (born 5 July 1980[1][2]) is a former Indian actor and producer who appeared inHindi films. The son of Bollywood actorSanjay Khan, he has received aFilmfare Award nomination.
After graduating in Business Management at theMontgomery College and Film Making at theLondon Film Academy, he made his acting debut in 2003 inChura Liyaa Hai Tumne. His other films includeMain Hoon Na (2004),Shabd (2005),Dus (2005),Rocky The Rebel, (2006),Yuvvraaj (2008),Blue (2009), andAnjaana Anjaani (2010).
In 2011, the actor ventured into production with his co-owned production house,Born Free Entertainment along with friend and actressDia Mirza and her spouse Sahil Sanga with their first film,Love Breakups Zindagi. In 2017, Khan made his television debut in the showHaasil. He has been married to Malaika Parekh since 2005, with whom he has two children.
Khan's parents are formerBollywood actor-director Shah Abbas Khan (Sanjay Khan) and interior designer-food writer Zarine Khan (née Katrak).[3] His father is of mixedAfghan andIranian descent[4] while his mother comes from aParsi family.[3][5] Zayed, who was raised as a Muslim, is the youngest of four children and the only son of his parents. His elder sisters are Simone Khan (married to Ajay Arora),Sussanne Khan (ex-wife of actorHrithik Roshan), and Farah Khan Ali (ex-wife ofDJ Aqeel). Khan is the nephew of actorFeroz Khan and directorAkbar Khan (brothers of Sanjay Khan) and first cousin of Bollywood actor,Fardeen Khan.[6]
Khan attendedWelham Boys' School,Dehradun, and laterKodaikanal International School,Kodaikanal, with childhood friendEsha Deol and Mallaika Parekh. He studied Business Management at theMontgomery College[7] and Film Making atLondon Film Academy.
Khan made his screen debut in 2003 in the filmChura Liyaa Hai Tumne.[8]
In 2004, he starred inMain Hoon Na, which was one of the biggest hits in his career. It was the second highest-grossing film of 2004 behindVeer-Zaara and was declared a hit. Khan was subsequently nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2005. He also starred alongsideAmrita Arora in a music video called Disco 82 Remix by DJ Aqeel for UMI-10.
Khan had four releases in 2005. He played an obsessive lover inVaada alongsideArjun Rampal andAmeesha Patel. He then starred inShabd as a photography professor, which he was excited about because he had always wanted to do a film withAishwarya Rai. His third release,Anubhav Sinha's action thrillerDus, where he played a cop, did well. It was Big Hit and was the third highest-grossing film of 2005. Khan's final release of the year,Shaadi No. 1, flopped at the box office.
He starred inSohail Khan's action multi-starrer,Fight Club - Members Only in 2006. Next, he appeared inRocky: The Rebel. Khan revealed that he had ghost-written some scenes in the film. He had first begun script-writing when he was studying in London.
Both of his films in 2007 were action multi-starrers. Anubhav Sinha'sCash was originally meant to be the sequel to Dus, but ended up differently. Due to this, some of the cast of Dus also star in Cash. It performed reasonably well in its first week, but was unable to replicate the success of Dus and was eventually declared a flop. His next film,Speed, also failed at the box office.
In 2008, Khan had the leading role as a news reporter inApoorva Lakhia'sMission Istaanbul oppositeVivek Oberoi. He also starred in the Bollywood remake ofRain Man,Yuvvraaj withSalman Khan,Katrina Kaif andAnil Kapoor.
The following year, he featured in the underwater action thrillerBlue. At the time of its release, the film broke the record for having the highest budget for a Bollywood film. It had an excellent opening weekend onDiwali, collecting₹480 million, but was a below-average grosser. He also filmedSharafat Gayi Tel Lene, a comedy thriller film. However, it ran into production hassles and was released in 2015.
Khan played a supporting role as an unfaithful fiancé in the 2010Ranbir Kapoor–Priyanka Chopra starrer,Anjaana Anjaani.
In 2011, the actor ventured into production with his co-owned production house, Born Free Entertainment along with friend and actressDia Mirza and her husband, Sahil Sanga. Their first film,Love Breakups Zindagi, was released on 7 October 2011, and was met with a lukewarm response.
In 2012, Khan played a supporting role inTezz, which stars Anil Kapoor andAjay Devgan in the lead.
In August 2017, Khan made his television debut on a show calledHaasil playing the role of Ranvir Raichand oppositeVatsal Sheth andNikita Dutta.[9] The show premiered in October 2017.
Khan married his high school sweetheart Malaika Parekh on 20 November 2005. In an interview, Malaika stated that Zayed proposed four times to her and she has four rings from him.[10] They are of exactly the same age and they both studied inKodaikanal International School.[citation needed] They first became acquainted with each other in 1995.[11]
The couple have two sons, born in 2008 and 2011. In 2008, Khan gave up smoking upon the birth of his first son, to ensure that his children grew up without accepting any bad habits as normal.[12]
| Year | Film | Award | Category | Result |
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| 2004 | Chura Liyaa Hai Tumne | Zee Cine Awards | Best Male Debut | Nominated |
| Filmfare Awards | Best Male Debut | Nominated | ||
| 2005 | Main Hoon Na | Best Supporting Actor | Nominated[13] |
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| 2003 | Chura Liyaa Hai Tumne | Prakash Yogi / Vijay Chouhan / Vishal Malhotra | |
| 2004 | Main Hoon Na | Lakshman Prasad Sharma "Lucky" | |
| 2005 | Vaada | Karan Srivastav | |
| Shabd | Yash Agnihotri | ||
| Dus | Aditya Singh | ||
| Shaadi No. 1 | Veer Saxena | ||
| 2006 | Fight Club – Members Only | Vicky Khanna | |
| Rocky: The Rebel | Rocky Sinha | ||
| 2007 | Cash | Dhananjay "Danny" Jhumbevalkar | |
| Speed | Sandeep Arora | ||
| Om Shanti Om | Himself | Guest appearance in song "Deewangi Deewangi" | |
| 2008 | Mission Istaanbul | Vikas Sagar | |
| Yuvvraaj | Danny Yuvvraaj | ||
| 2009 | Blue | Sameer "Sam" Singh | |
| 2010 | Anjaana Anjaani | Kunal Nanda | |
| 2011 | Love Breakups Zindagi | Jai Malhotra | Also producer |
| 2012 | Tezz | Aadil Khan | |
| 2015 | Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene | Prithvi Khurana |
| Year | Title | Language | Role |
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| 2017–2018 | Haasil | Hindi | Ranveer Raichand |
[Zayed Khan's mother] As I came from an aristocratic Parsi background – the Katrak family (...)
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