Shadaab Khan | |
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 Shadaab Khan with mother Shehla Khan in 2015 | |
| Born | 20 September 1973 |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Occupation | Actor, film director, author |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Spouse(s) | Rumana Achwa ( m. 2005) |
| Parent(s) | Amjad Khan (father) |
| Relatives | Jayant (paternal grandfather) Akhtar ul Iman (maternal grandfather) Imtiaz Khan (paternal uncle) Zafar Karachiwala (brother-in-law) |
Shadaab Khan (born 20 September 1973) is an Indian Hindi film actor, writer, and film director. He is the son of actor Amjad Khan.
Personal life[edit | edit source]
Shadaab Khan was born on 20 September 1973 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India (now Mumbai) into a Muslim family to parents Amjad Khan and Shaila Khan.
Shadaab is of Pashtun descent on his father's side, traced back to Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province (now in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan), where his grandfather Zakaria Khan, better known as Jayant, was born and raised.[1][2][3][4] Through his mother, his grandfather is Akhtar ul Iman, an Urdu poet and screenwriter in the Hindi film industry who has written the dialogues for two of Yash Chopra's best-known movies, Waqt (1965) and Ittefaq (1969).[5]
He has two siblings, brother Seemab Khan, a club cricketer,[6] and sister Ahlam Khan, an actress and screenwriter married to actor Zafar Karachiwala.[7] He is married to Rumana Achwa since 2005.
Books[edit | edit source]
Shadaab Khan has been writing since the age of 8[5] and has published two fiction books: Shanti Memorial, a collection of novellas in the horror and thriller genres,[5] in 2013 and Murder in Bollywood, a crime novel, in 2015.[8]
Filmography[edit | edit source]
Films[edit | edit source]
| Film | Year | Actor | Director | Writer | Notes | Ref. |
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| Pyaari Bhabhi | 1985 | 
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| Raja Ki Aayegi Baaraat | 1996 | |
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| Betaabi | 1997 | |
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| Hey Ram | 2000 | |
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| Refugee | |
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| Bharat Bhagya Vidhata | 2002 | |
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| Highway 203 | 2007 | No | |
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| Romeo Akbar Walter | 2019 | |
Supporting role |
Television[edit | edit source]
| Show | Year | Role | Notes |
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| Scam 1992 | 2020 | Ajay Kedia | 8 Episodes |
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Obituary: Amjad Khan". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
The son of Zakira Khan, a Pathan from the North-West Frontier Province and popular Bollywood character actor of the Fifties and Sixties (screen name Jayant), Khan was born in Bombay in 1943.
- ↑ "Sholay 3D: Spl. Screening".
- ↑ "Amjad Khan's Piece of Advice to His Son Shadaab Khan". 14 June 2016.
- ↑ "Shadaab-Khan-Amzad-Khan". Archived from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "'Writing is in my blood'". The Deccan Chronicle. 12 February 2014. Archived from the original on 11 April 2025.
- ↑ Rizvi, Taus (11 August 2019). "Weight of selection: Amjad Khan's son Seemab Khan to Rahkeem Cornwall". DNA India.
- ↑ "Meet Ahlam Khan, the beautiful daughter of 'Gabbar' Amjad Khan". DNA India.
- ↑ Basu, Mohar (16 July 2015). "Amitabh Bachchan launches Shadaab Khan's crime thriller 'Murder In Bollywood' in Mumbai". Times of India. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
External links[edit | edit source]
- Shadaab Khan on IMDb
- Shadaab Khan on Twitter