Sajid Khan

Sajid Khan

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Sajid Khan Profile

  • Name:
  • Sajid Khan
  • Born:
  • November 23, 1971
  • Father:
  • Kamran Khan
  • Mother:
  • Menaka Irani

Sajid Khan Biography

Sajid Khan is a famous producer-director of Bollywood at present. He is a hit maker famous for masala and comedy flicks. He is a screen writer and occasionally anchors television talk shows and reality shows as well. He has also hosted a few award functions including Star screen awards four times. His top hits are Heyy Baby, Houseful and Houseful 2 and all these movies have Akshay Kumar in the lead. He is the brother of choreographer-director Farah Khan and Film editor Shirish Kunder is his brother –in –law (Farah Khan’s husband). Film-makers Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar are his maternal cousins. Script writer Honey Irani is the maternal aunt of him (Ex-wife of Javed Akhtar).  Another actress Daisy Irani is also his maternal aunt.

 

Sajid Khan was born to Menaka Irani and Kamran Khan on 23 November 1971 in Mumbai. He started his TV career by the show called Kehne Mein Kya Harz Hai. His Bollywood debut was Darna Zaroori hai, the sequel of Darna Mana Hai. This movie was somewhat like an experimental film with a string of short stories/films. This movie included 5 horror stories along with an additional story to begin with. That additional short story before the movie actually starts was directed by none other than Sajid Khan. The rest stories were directed by Ram Gopal Varma, Prawal Raman, Vivek Shah, Jiji Philip and J.D. Chakravarthy. The movie was not successful.

 

As a credited director, the first movie of Sajid Khan is Heyy Baby. This movie was one among the four released movies of Akshay Kumar in the year 2007 which made him the new super star of Bollywood. This movie was inspired from Malayalam movie, Thoovalsparsham (1990) directed by Kamal, though the story after interval is different. Vidya Balan was the leading heroine of the movie. This comic flick also starred Fardeen Khan, Boman Irani and Ritesh Deshmukh in pivot roles.

 

His next release was Houseful, one among the three movies where Jiah Khan acted. This movie also starred Akshay Kumar, Malaika Arora, Deepika Padukone, Ritesh Deshmukh and Lara Dutta. This movie and its sequel were instant hits. Akshay Kumar and Ritesh Deshmukh have formed a part of his successful films. However his remake Himmatwala with Ajay Devgan and Tamannaah Bhatia was a big failure. 

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Updated: September 06, 2013

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