Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Biography
Saif Ali Khan was born in to one of the elite families of India. His
father is none other than former Ace Cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan
Pataudi and his mother is India´s sweetheart Shamila Tagore. His
sister Soha Ali Khan is now taking her first steps in the movie
industry. His other sister is a very talented jewelry designer. While
his parents were working, Saif spent most of his childhood with his
cousins and Grandma in Bhopal.
Saif married at a young years to Amrita Singh and is father of two
wonderful children Sara and Ibrahim. After years of being together
Saif and Amrita are now divorced. Now Saif is very much in love hith
his Italian girlfriend Rosa. Saif now looks better than ever and is
wanted everywhere as a Brand Ambassadore as well as being special
guest for various shows. Saif appeared on small screen in many
commercials, even paired with his family members.
Saif went to London for further studies. During his College days Saif
always wanted to be a Rockstar. Right now Saif is living his college
dream and is playing guitar in some rock shows.
His acting career started at 23. In his first movie Aashig Aawara,
many doubt his acting talents. They did not accept him and he had to
face a lot of criticsim. He then reformed himself completely and gave
some masterpieces like 'Main Khiladi Tu Anari', and 'Yeh Diilagi'.
This time the audience accepted him with open arms and his works was
applauded in all these movies. Unfortunately, more flops like 'Bambai
Ka Babu' and 'Ek Tha Raja' followed. However his career was again
back on track with the release of Rajshri's 'Hum Saath Saath Hain'.
Saif was part of Kal Ho Naa Ho next to his buddy Shahrukh Khan. From
that moment on he started his climb to the top. With Hum Tum he
finally launched into space. After Hum Tum comes movies like
Parineeta and Salaam Namaste which showed Saif is one of the Best.
Career
Saif was meant to make his debut in Bekhudi (1992) opposite Kajol but
the film took off without him.
He made his Bollywood debut in the 1992 film Parampara. For his next
film Aashiq Awara (1993) he won the Filmfare Best Male Debut Award.
His breakthrough role came in 1994 with Yeh Dillagi starring opposite
Kajol and Akshay Kumar which was his first major hit.[8] Khan went on
to star in many films but they failed at the box office. He only had
success with multi-starrer hits like Main Khiladi Tu Anari (1994),
Imtihaan (1995),Kachche Dhaage (1999) and Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We
Stand United (1999).After some box office failures he had a hit with
the film Kya Kehna (2000).
His acting career, more or less, went through a relative slump until
2001, when he was cast in Farhan Akhtar's hit film, Dil Chahta Hai.
He received much acclaim for his role as Sameer with critic Taran
Adarsh calling it his career-best performance.The success of this
film firmly established Saif as one of the industry's most bankable
stars.
He has since had many box office successes such as Kal Ho Na Ho
(2003),Hum Tum (2004)and Salaam Namaste (2005).He won lots of
critical acclaim for his performance in a rare negative role for the
film Ek Hasina Thi (2004)and for Parineeta (2005). His performance in
Hum Tum won him the National Film Award for Best Actor.
In 2006 Khan played the lead role in the offbeat English-language
film Being Cyrus and bagged enormous acclaim for his villainous role
in the Indian adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, Omkara. Critic,
Taran Adarsh said "Saif Ali Khan... plays the evil Langda Tyagi
brilliantly. His looks, his mannerisms, his body language, his
overall behavioral pattern takes you by complete surprise. The actor
deserves distinction marks for portraying the role with such realism
that you start hating him after a point. Sure, the actor deserves the
highest award for this role".Rediff.com stated "Omkara marks Saif's
emergence into the very forefront of his acting peers, and we
gleefully applaud".He won the Best Villain awards at all the major
award ceremonies including the Star Screen Awards,Filmfare Awards and
Zee Cine Awards.
His next film Eklavya: The Royal Guard saw him and his mother
together for the second time since Aashiq Awara. Though it was a
box-office disappointment his performance as Harshwardhan was praised
and appreciated by the critics. One critic commented "watching him
emote with amazing precision makes you realize the giant strides he
has taken as an actor".
His last release Ta Ra Rum Pum did moderately at the box office and
his performance was praised.
Personal life
Currently living in Mumbai, Khan married actress Amrita Singh in
October 1991.The marriage made news as Amrita was twelve years older
than him. After thirteen years of marriage and two children, a
daughter named Sara and a son named Ibrahim, the couple divorced in
2004. His children currently live with their mother.
After he divorced his wife, he began dating Rozza Catalino, who he
recently broke up with. The tabloids have often linked him with many
other Bollywood stars, but he has denied all these rumours.
Khan is currently dating actress Kareena Kapoor. At the grand finale
of the Lakme Fashion Week, he declared that they were indeed a couple
and were seeing each other.
On February 18, 2007, Khan was hospitalized at Leelawati Hospital,
Mumbai due to experiencing chest pain while rehearsing for his
performance at the Stardust Awards, to be held that night. Many film
personalities came to see the actor in hospital. After
hospitalisation he gave up smoking.
Filmography
Actor:
1. Roadside Romeo (2008) (filming) (voice)
2. Tashan (2008) (filming)
... aka Style (India: English title: literal title)
3. Bhootnath (2007) (filming)
4. Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007) .... Rajveer 'RV' Singh
5. "Koffee with Karan" .... Guest (1 episode, 2007)
- Episode #2.5 (2007) TV Episode .... Guest
6. Nehlle Pe Dehlla (2007) .... Jimmy
7. Eklavya (2007) .... Prince Harshwardhan
... aka Eklavya: The Royal Guard (USA)
8. Omkara (2006) .... Ishwar "Langda" Tyagi
9. Being Cyrus (2005) .... Cyrus Mistry / Xerxes
10. Salaam Namaste (2005) .... Nikhil "Nicki" Arora
11. Parineeta (2005) .... Shekhar N. Roy
... aka A Married Woman (International: English title)
12. Hum Tum (2004) .... Karan Kapoor
13. Ek Hasina Thi (2004) .... Karan Singh Rathod
... aka There Was a Beautiful Girl (India: English title)
14. LOC: Kargil (2003) .... Capt. Anuj Nayyar, 17 JAT
... aka L.O.C. (India: Hindi title: promotional abbreviation)
15. Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) .... Rohit Patel
... aka Tomorrow May Never Come (USA: informal literal English
title)
... aka Tomorrow May Not Be (USA: DVD box title)
16. Darna Mana Hai (2003) .... Anil Manchandani (Photographer)
17. Na Tum Jaano Na Hum (2002) .... Akshay Kapoor
18. Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (2001) .... Rajiv Shyamrao ("Sam")
19. Dil Chahta Hai (2001) .... Sameer
... aka Do Your Thing (USA: TV title)
20. Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega (2001) .... Prakash
21. Yeh Pyaar Hi To Hai (2000)
22. Kya Kehna (2000) .... Rahul Modi
... aka Friends (India: English title)
23. Biwi No. 1 (1999) .... Deepak (Special Appearance)
24. Aarzoo (1999) .... Amar
25. Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United (1999) .... Vinod
... aka We Stand United (International: English title)
26. Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan (1999) .... Raju Tarachand/Husna
Bano/David Rathod
27. Kachche Dhaage (1999) .... Dhananjay Pandit 'Jai'
28. Humse Badhkar Kaun: The Entertainer (1998) .... Sunny
29. Keemat: They Are Back (1998) .... Ajay
30. Udaan (1997) .... Raja
31. Hamesha (1997) .... Raja/Raju
32. Tu Chor Main Sipahi (1996) .... Raja/King
33. Ek Tha Raja (1996) .... Sunny/Sunny Dogra
34. Bambai Ka Babu (1996) .... Vikram (Vicky)
35. Dil Tera Diwana (1996) .... Ravi Kumar
36. Imtihaan (1995) .... Vicky
37. Surakshaa (1995) .... Amar/Prince Vijay
38. Aao Pyaar Karen (1994) .... Raja
39. Yaar Gaddar (1994) .... Jai Verma
40. Main Khiladi Tu Anari (1994) .... Deepak Kumar
... aka I'm the Expert, You're the Novice (UK)
41. Yeh Dillagi (1994) .... Vikram 'Vicky' Saigal
... aka The Game of Love (India: English title)
42. Parampara (1993) .... Pratap P. Singh
... aka Tradition
43. Aashiq Awara (1993) .... Jimmy/Rakesh Rajpal
44. Pehchaan (1993)
... aka Pehechaan (India: Hindi title: video box title)
Music Department:
1. Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United (1999) (playback singer)
... aka We Stand United (International: English title)