Irrfan Khan
Irfan Khan is from Jaipur, India. He was studying for his M.A. degree when he snagged a fellowship at (NSD) National School of Drama in 1984. After graduating in 1987, he moved to Mumbai. Theater and television kept him afloat till Mira Nair offered him a cameo in "Salaam Bombay". But the role was edited out of the final copy.
He continued to dabble in television making impacts on various soaps and tele-historicals series. To break away from television Irfan featured in few main stream movies but none of them were a box-office success.
He got his first break in movies with Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay (1988). However his scene was deleted before the release. He was seen in Tapan Sinha’s Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1991) with Shabana Azmi which won the National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film among others.
But things changed when Landon based director Asif Kapadia gave him the lead in "The Warrior". An historical film completed in 11 weeks on the locals in Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan.
"The Warrior" stormed in international film festivals making Irfan Khan a noticed actor. His first Bollywood main lead role came in the movie "Rog".
Following this, he was seen in several commercial ventures like Kasoor (2001), Gunaah (2002) and Haasil (2003). His role in the latter won him a Filmfare Best Actor in a negative Role Award. In Vishal Bharadwaj’s Maqbool (2004), an adaptation of Macbeth, he played the role of Macbeth.
Riding on his success, he acted in 7 ½ Phere (2005) with Juhi Chawla and Naseeruddin Shah’s Yun Hota Tho Kya Hota (2006) about the 9/11 attacks.
Irrfan Khan was the chosen one for the 2007 release The Mighty Heart. It was based on a book by Marianne Pearl about the slaying of her journalist husband Daniel Pearl. The movie starred Angelina Jolie and Irrfan Khan as Javid Habib who is helping in the investigations of the journalist’s disappearance.
He was part of Anurag Basu’s Life in a Metro (2007) that won him the Best Supporting Actor Award. He worked with director Mira Nair and actress Tabu in The Namesake (2007), an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s book by the same name. He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance as Ashok Ganguly.
Mumbai Meri Jaan (2008)about the Mumbai train bombings in 2006 saw him as Thomas, a coffee vendor. The movie opened to positive reviews.
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2009) won several awards internationally. He played a police inspector investigating a possible fraud…
2013 D-day Rishi Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Arjun Rampal, Shruti Haasan, Huma Qureshi, Irfan Khan
2013 Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns Jimmy Sheirgill, Mahie Gill, Randeep Hooda, Soha Ali Khan, Irrfan Khan, Irfan Khan
2012 Tukkaa Fitt Mahaakshay Chakraborty, Vaishali Desai, Rajpal Yadav, Mahesh Manjrekar, Mukul Dev, Irfan Khan
2012 Life Of Pi Suraj Sharma, Irfan Khan, Tabbu, Adil Hussain, Shravanthi Sainath
2012 Paan Singh Tomar Irfan Khan, Mahie Gill, Vipin Sharma, Imran Hasnee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
2011 Chillar Party Irrfan Khan, Sanath Menon, Rohan Grover, Naman Jain, Aarav Khanna, Irfan Khan
2011 Thank You Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Celina Jaitley, Irfan Khan
2011 7 Khoon Maaf Priyanka Chopra, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Naseeruddin Shah, John Abraham, Irfan Khan
2011 Yeh Saali Zindagi Irfan Khan, Arunoday Singh, Chitrangda Singh, Aditi Rao Hydari, Saurabh Shukla
2010 Hisss Irfan Khan, Mallika Sherawat, Divya Dutta, Jeff Douchette
2010 Knock Out Sanjay Dutt, Kangna Ranaut, Irfan Khan, Gulshan Grover, Sushant Singh
2010 Right Yaaa Wrong Sunny Deol, Irfan Khan, Isha Koppikar, Aryan Vaid, Deepal Shaw
2009 Acid Factory Fardeen Khan, Dino Morea, Diya Mirza, Manoj Bajpai, Aftab Shivdasani, Irfan Khan
2009 New York John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
2009 Billu Shahrukh Khan, Irfan Khan, Lara Dutta, Rajpal Yadav, Om Puri
2009 Slumdog Millionaire Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Dev Patel
2008 Dil Kabaddi Rahul Bose, Irfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Soha Ali Khan, Payal Rohatgi
2008 Chamku Bobby Deol, Priyanka Chopra, Irfan Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Rajpal Yadav
2008 Krazzy 4 Irfan Khan, Suresh Menon, Arshad Warsi, Diya Mirza, Rajpal Yadav
2008 Sunday Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Ayesha Takia, Irfan Khan, Mukesh Tiwari
2008 Tulsi Irfan Khan, Manisha Koirala, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Tinu Anand, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
2007 Aaja Nachle Madhuri Dixit, Konkona Sen Sharma, Akshaye Khanna, Irfan Khan, Kunal Kapoor
2007 Apna Asmaan Irfan Khan, Shobana, Dhruv Piyush Panjuani, Rajat Kapoor, Anupam Kher
2007 Life In A.. Metro Shiney Ahuja, Shilpa Shetty, Sharman Joshi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kangna Ranaut, Irfan Khan
2007 The Namesake Irfan Khan, Tabbu, Sukanya, Sabyasachi Chakravarthy, Supriya Choudhary
2006 Gumnaam Dino Morea, Mahima Choudhary, Suman Ranganathan, Govind Namdeo, Irfan Khan
2006 Deadline Konkona Sen Sharma, Irfan Khan, Rajit Kapoor, Sandhya Mridul,
2006 Yun Hota To Kya Hota Paresh Rawal, Konkona Sen Sharma, Irfan Khan, Karan Khanna, Sameer Shaikh
2006 The Killer Emran Hashmi, Irfan Khan, Nisha Kothari, Bharati Achrekar, Sanjay Batra
2006 Aksar Emran Hashmi, Udita Goswami, Dino Morea, Tara Sharma, Irfan Khan
2005 Mr.100% Aryan Vaid, Mahima Choudhary, Irfan Khan, Payal Rohatgi
2005 Chehraa Bipasha Basu, Dino Morea, Preeti Jhangiani, Irfan Khan, Rajat Kapoor
2005 Rog Irfan Khan, Suhel Seth, Himanshu Malik, Munish Makhija, Shyamoli Varma
2005 Chocolate Anil Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Emran Hashmi, Irfan Khan
2005 7 1/2 Phere Juhi Chawla, Irfan Khan, Anang Desai, Neena Kulkarni, Lalit Tiwari
2004 Aan Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Shatrughan Sinha, Paresh Rawal, Irfan Khan
2004 Charas Jimmy Shergill, Uday Chopra, Irfan Khan, Namrata Shirodkar, Hrishitaa Bhatt
2003 Footpath Aftab Shivdasani, Bipasha Basu, Emran Hashmi, Rahul Dev, Farhan Hashami, Irfan Khan
2003 Dhund - The Fog Amar Upadhyay, Apoorva Agnihotri, Aditi Govitrikar, Divya Palat, Irfan Khan
2003 Supari Uday Chopra, Nandita Das, Rahul Dev, Nauheed Cyrusi, Irfan Khan
2002 Gunaah Bipasha Basu, Dino Morea, Ashutosh Rana, Irrfan Khan, Avtar Gill, Irfan Khan
2001 Kasoor Lisa Ray, Aftab Shivdasani, Irfan Khan, Ashutosh Rana
