Irrfan Khan
Khan at the launch of NDTV Lumiere's The Orphanage, May 2008
Born	Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan[1] (1967-01-07) 7 January 1967 (age 45) Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Other names	Irfan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1989–present
Spouse	Sutapa Sikdar Khan (1995–present)
Website
http://www.irrfan.com

Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan, previously known as Irrfan Khan and now just Irrfan^[2][3] (Hindi: इरफ़ान ख़ान; born on 7th January 1967^[4] ), is an Indian actor in film, television and theatre. He received recognition for his roles in The Warrior (2001), Maqbool (2003), Haasil (2004), The Namesake (2006), A Mighty Heart (2007), Life in a... Metro (2007), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Billu (2009), New York (2009), New York, I Love You (2009), Paan Singh Tomar (film) (2012), and Vodafone commercials.

He has won two Filmfare Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. He is also the recipient of 2011 Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award in India. He has also been cast in The Amazing Spider-Man as Dr. Ratha. He has appeared in more than 30 films in the Bollywood.

Early life and background[link]

Khan was born in Jaipur to a Muslim family. Khan's mother, Sayeeda 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.^[5][6][7] Khan was studying for his M.A. degree when he earned a scholarship to study at National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi in 1984.

Career[link]

Khan moved to Mumbai, where he acted in numerous television serials like Chanakya, Bharat Ek Khoj, Sara Jahan Hamara, Banegi Apni Baat, Chandrakanta (Doordarshan), "AnooGoonj" on Doordarshan" Star Bestsellers (Star Plus), and Sparsh. 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, where he. 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 film 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 Irrfan Khan a known face^[8].

In 2003 he acted in Indian born writer-director, Ashvin Kumar's short film, "Road to Ladakh". After the film received rave reviews^[9] at international festivals, the film is now being made into a full length feature, again starring Irrfan Khan.^[10] That same year he played the title role in the critically acclaimed Maqbool, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

His first Bollywood main lead role came in 2005 with film Rog in which his performance was praised by critics, especially a critic 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"^[11]. 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"^[12].

In 2007, he appeared in the box office hits Metro, for which he received a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, and The Namesake. They were closely followed by his appearance in the international films A Mighty Heart and The Darjeeling Limited.

Even after becoming a successful actor in Bollywood, he has not severed his ties with television. 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."^[13]

In 2009, he featured in the film Acid Factory. Khan has stated that he wants to do more and more action films in the future.^[14] He also appeared as an FBI agent in New York and as a Gujarati diamond merchant in New York, I Love You. His latest film Paan Singh Tomar in which essays the role of real-life Rajput runner Paan Singh Tomar has received extremely favourable reviews by critics. Irrfan has been highly praised.

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, USA.

Khan said in an IGN interview that he will be playing Nels Van Adder, an adversary of Spider-Man, in The Amazing Spider-Man.^[15]

Personal life[link]

On 23 February 1995, Khan married writer Sutapa Sikdar, who is also an NSD graduate. They have two children named Babil and Ayan.^[1]

He has two brothers, Imran Khan and Salman Khan and one sister Rukhsana Begum.

Sutapa 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," says Sikdar. Even now, as 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.^[16] Recently he has changed his name to Irrfan citing that he does not want to identify himself with a particular community and that he considers acting as an art form above human divisions. He also said he likes the sound of the extra "r" in his name.^[17]

Awards[link]

Wins[link]

• 2003: Filmfare Best Villain Award - Haasil
• 2007: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award - Life in a Metro
• 2008: Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture - Slumdog Millionaire
• 2011: Padma Shri^[18]

Nominations[link]

• 2007: Independent Spirit Award: Best Supporting Male - The Namesake
• 2008: Stardust Best Supporting Actor Award - The Namesake
• 2008: IIFA Award: IIFA Best Supporting Actor - Life in a Metro

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Irrfan Khan at the Internet Movie Database

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Irrfan Khan

• Irrfan Khan Official Website
• TIME Magazine coverage of Irrfan Khan
• TIME Magazine photo feature

Me One (born Eric Martin on August 19, 1970) is a multi-instrumentalist singer, song-writer and music producer born in Cardiff, Wales.

Educated in London and New York, he is the son of an English teacher (mother) from Kingston and a Pentecostal Church minister (father) from Port Antonio. He holds dual citizenship of both Jamaica and the UK.

His debut album as Me One was released in May 2000 on Universal-Island U.K.^[1] The 12 track release was titled As Far as I'm Concerned^[1] and featured Guru (from Gang Starr) on Do You Know and Michelle Gayle on a cover version of The Beach Boys track In My Room. The latter was released as a single, along with Game Plan and Old Fashioned. ^[2]

Aside from his solo work, Martin has written with (or for) Jeff Beck, Maxi Priest, The Roots, Capleton, Lynden David Hall and The Sugababes.^{[citation needed]}

He formed his own record label, Frenemy Records in 2005.^[3]

In 2011 he signed a recording deal with Glasgow based record label Innovation Music ^[4].

In addition to the Me One project, Eric Martin is known as an original member of Technotronic.

References[link]

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Kay Kay Menon is an Indian actor.

Early life[link]

Menon was raised in Ambarnath and Pune, Maharashtra. His early life was in "H" type Rangehills, Khadki which were factory quarters for those working in the ammunition and high explosives factories. His father was popularly known as "Cashier Menon". His parents moved from Kerala to Mumbai when he was very young.

Kichu, as Menon was known among friends, studied at the St. Josephs Boys' High School in Khadki. He passed his 10th grade in 1981. He did his Bachelors (Physics) from Mumbai University and his MBA from the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Pune,^[1] graduating in 1988 with a major in marketing. He was popular in his class as a singer of ghazals.

Menon's initial focus was working in the advertising industry. He was involved in the first Kinetic Honda and Marlboro cigarette advertisements in India. He started his career in theatre productions where he met his wife, Nivedita Bhattacharya. He gradually moved to television acting and finally film acting. He made his film debut with Naseem (1995), followed by Bhopal Express.

During his struggling days, he was a regular feature at the Lunar Cafe, a small restaurant near the Santa-Cruz (East) bus stand.

In the early years of his career, Menon worked in TV shows such as Pradhan Mantri and TV movies like Zebra 2 and Last Train To Mahakali. Menon was first noticed in Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, where he was greatly appreciated with fellow newcomer Shiney Ahuja, and received much acclaim for his performance. His performance as the anguished DCP Rakesh Maria in the movie Black Friday has been widely appreciated and acclaimed. The movie, based on the book by journalist S. Hussain Zaidi on the 1993 Bombay Bomb Blasts, awaited an Indian release for almost 2 years before its final release on 9 February 2007. It was featured at the Locarno International Film Festival and received widespread praise. Kay Kay Menon's portrayal of an honest, but human cop (when checking the house of the accused, he spots bananas in the refrigerator and picks one up to eat, since he hadn't eaten well that day. Seeing the look of the accompanying constable, he says to him, "you can take some too.. there's more in the fridge"). The Sunday Edition of the Indian Express described his performance, "Excellent as always".^{[citation needed]} In 2007, he acted in the commercially and critically successful Life in a... Metro, as the adulterous husband of Shilpa Shetty's character. In 2008, he was highly appreciated for his performance in the film Shaurya. He played the role of the antagonist in the critical and commercial failure, Drona, starring alongside Abhishek Bachchan.^[2] In 2009, he starred in The Stoneman Murders where he played a police officer on the hunt for the Stoneman serial killer.^[3] Kay Kay will now be seen in 'Dream Man', a new film by Makrand Deshpande. The film is a spoof on Bollywood. The versatile actor will be seen in 14 roles against Cast: Bollywood Actors Afzaal khan, Kay Kay Menon,Vasudha of (Aasma band) and Amit Mistry.

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

• 2007: Nominated: Filmfare Best Villain Award for Sarkar

External links[link]

• Kay Kay Menon at the Internet Movie Database

References[link]

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Rimi Sen
Rimi Sen at Bappa Lahiri's wedding reception
Born	Shubhomitra Sen (1981-09-21) 21 September 1981 (age 30) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation	Actress

Rimi Sen (born Shubhomitra Sen on 21 September 1981) is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films.

Biography[link]

Sen was born as Shubhomitra Sen in Kolkata, West Bengal. She completed her schooling from Bidya Bharati Girls' High School in the year 1998.^{[citation needed]} She completed her graduation in Commerce from University of Calcutta.^[1] She trained in Odissi dance under eminent Kolkata-based Odissi exponent, Guru Aloka Kanungo.

Career[link]

Since childhood Sen nursed the dream of becoming an actress. After completing her studies, she persuaded her mother to accompany her to Mumbai. She later said that she wasn't encouraged by anyone in her family except for her grandfather. After doing the rounds, she got into ads including one Coca-Cola ad with Aamir Khan. She was instantly noticed and her first offer for films started rollin in.^[1]

Rimi made her debut as a lead actress in Telugu movie Nee Thodu Kavali. Her debut Hindi film, Hungama, released in 2003. It was a comedy film, in which she co-starred with Akshay Khanna, Aftab Shivdasani, Paresh Rawal, as well as other actors.

She followed it with appearance in big budget movies like Dhoom (2004), Garam Masala (2005) and Golmaal (2006). She also did a cameo in 2006 film Dhoom 2, and followed it with Johnny Gaddaar alongside newcomer actor Neil Nitin Mukesh. In 2008, she appeared in De Taali and in Sankat City in 2009.

Rimi is currently going by the screen name Rimmi. She explains the name change as a career move: there are many other Sens working in Bollywood right now, and a single name may help her stand out from the crowd and stay apart from others.

Controversy[link]

In 2006, Sen made racist comments about black African people in an online interview about a film, saying, "I play a sweet and beautiful girl in the film. The best thing that I like about the film is that though it has four heroes, I am the only heroine. Rohit Shetty is amazing as a director. He can make even a black African look pretty." Sen's comments were condemned by human rights and anti-racism organisations in India and abroad and has not apologised for her comments.^[2] Since making these comments her career has suffered, but has still been able to hold on to her role in the Dhoom series.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Rimi Sen at the Internet Movie Database

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Rimi Sen

Tigmanshu Dhulia (born 3 July 1967) is an Indian film director, actor, screenwriter, and casting director. Dil Se.., for which he wrote the screenplay, was the first Hindi movie to chart in the UK top ten.^[1]

Early life and education[link]

Dhulia, who has his roots in the hills of Uttarakhand^[2] was born and raised in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He attended St. Joseph's College and Anglo Bengali Intermediate College, then Allahabad University where he majored in English, Economics and Modern History. After graduating in 1986 he took a Master's Degree in Theatre at the National School of Drama in New Delhi, completing the course in 1989. ^[3]

Career[link]

In 1990 he moved to Mumbai where he worked as casting director on the film Bandit Queen, a biopic of Phoolan Devi. He was casting director for 1995's Stiff Upper Lips, in which he also had a cameo role as a stallholder,^[4] and 2000's The Warrior, directed by Asif Kapadia. He directed his first film, Haasil (released 2003), a love story set among politicized students in northern India. The film was critically well received and has gained a cult following. Haasil was nominated for six awards (including best directorial debut) at the Zee Cine Awards, where it won for best screenplay.^[5] His second film Charas: A Joint Operation was a thriller concerning drug cartels, shot in marijuana-growing regions of Himachal Pradesh.

In 2011, Tigmanshu has come up with two films - the first one being Shagird which released on 13 May ^[6] and the second one was Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster ^[7]

Dhulia's film Paan Singh Tomar released on 2nd March, 2012 and won him wide critical acclaim. He has announced two other upcoming preojects, Milan Talkies, Jay Ramji and Saheb Biwi aur Gangster 2.^[8]

Recently he has been honored with the life membership of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy of Film & Television by Sandeep Marwah President Marwah Films & Video Studios.

During the 90s Dhulia directed and produced several television programs, including the six-part Krishna's Dream for UK Channel Four.^[9] Kahani Ek Kanya Ki (1991) was written for Doordarshan, and Hum Bambai Nahin Jayenge (1993), for BI Television, was set in an acting school. 1996's Just Mohabbat was the story of a boy's coming-of-age, and Naya Daur (1995) adapted a classic Hindi novel by Bhagwati Charan Verma for Zee TV.^{[citation needed]}

Dhulia's 1999 series Star Bestsellers, a sequence of six 45-minute short stories ("Ek Sham Ki Mulaqat", "Fursat Main", "Hum Saath Saath Hain Kya", "Anekon Hitler", "Musafir", and "Bhawaron Ne Khilaya Phool"), won him popular recognition. His 2005 comedy Who Dus Din, for Star TV, satirized the Indian film industry, while Ek Duje Ke Liye, produced the same year and also for Star TV, was an adaptation of Neil Simon’s play The Odd Couple. He also directed the TV serial 'Rajdhaani' for Starplus featuring Neha Dhupia.

Currently he is working with in 3 more forth coming movies: Milan Talkies, Jai Ramji and Saheb Biwi aur Gangster 2.

Filmography[link]

As an Actor

• Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) as Vikram

As director

• Haasil (2003)
• Charas (2004)
• Shagird (2011)
• Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster (2011)
• Paan Singh Tomar (2012)
• Milan Talkies (2013 - Filming)
• Jai Ramji (2013 - Filming)
• Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 2 (2013 - Filming)

As Writer

• Tere Mere Sapne (1996)
• Dil Se.. (1998)
• Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai (2001)
• Shararat (2002)
• Haasil (2003)
• Family (2005)

As casting director

• Bandit Queen (1994)
• Bombay Blues (1995)
• Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
• The Warrior (2001)

Television Series[link]

As Writer and director

• Kahani Ek Kanya Ki - (1991) - Doordarshan
• Krishna's Dream - (1993) - Channel Four
• Hum Bambai Nahin Jayenge - (1993) - BI Television
• Naya Daur - (1995) - Zee TV
• Just Mohabbat - (1996) - Sony TV

References[link]

External links[link]

• Tigmanshu Dhulia, website
• Tigmanshu Dhulia at the Internet Movie Database

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