Saif Ali Khan biographie

Saif Ali Khan (Hindi: ???? ??? ????, Urdu: ??? ??? ???; IPA /s?f ?li x?n/ born 16 August 1970 in New Delhi, India) is
National Film Award winning Indian actor who stars in Bollywood films. He is the son of the Nawab of Pataudi, Mansoor
Ali Khan Pataudi, and the actress Sharmila Tagore. His sister is actress Soha Ali Khan.Khan made his debut in 1992 with
Parampara. He had his major success with the 1994 films Main Khiladi Tu Anari and Yeh Dillagi. After starring in several
box office failures throughout the 1990s, he gained acclaim and rose into prominence with his performance in Dil Chahta
Hai (2001), and went on to turn his career professionally after that. He was praised for his performance in Nikhil Advani's
hit Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), which won him the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, and won the coveted National Film
Award for Best Actor for his performance in another hit Hum Tum (2004). He then had commercial success with films like
Salaam Namaste (2005) and Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007), and starred in numerous critically acclaimed projects such as
Parineeta and Omkara (2006). These successes put him among the most successful actors in the industry.
Family and early life
Saif Ali Khan was born into the family of the Nawabs of Pataudi. His grandfather, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, was the
Nawab of Pataudi as well as an accomplished cricketer who played for England and then for India as the captain of the
team. His paternal grandmother was Sajida Sultan, Begum of Bhopal and his great-uncle was Pakistani general
Nawabzada Sher Ali Khan Pataudi.
His father, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, like Nawab of Pataudi Sr., was not only the Nawab of Pataudi but also a former
captain of the Indian cricket team. His mother, Sharmila Tagore, is a Bengali Indian film actress, head of the Indian film
censorship board and a relative of the Nobel laureate - Rabindranath Tagore. Saif is also distantly related to the late
Nafisa Joseph through his mother.Khan has two sisters: Soha Ali Khan and Saba Ali Khan.
He attended Lockers Park Prep School, then followed in his father's footsteps by attending Winchester College, a
famous independent school for boys in England.
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.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 Awardsand 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
Khan married actress Amrita Singh in October 1991.The marriage made news as Amrita is 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 live with their mother.
In 1998, Khan was charged with poaching two blackbucks in Kankani during the filming of Hum Saath Saath Hain along
with co-stars Salman Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam.The charges were dropped soon after and Khan was
acquitted.
The tabloids have often linked him with many other Bollywood stars, but he has denied all these rumours. After he
divorced his wife, Khan began dating Rozza Catalino, who he broke up with in 2007. 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 stated he would quit smoking.
Commitments
In 2005, along with other Bollywood stars, Khan performed at the HELP! Telethon Concert to help raise money for the
victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquaka.
Khan took part in two major world tours. He was part of a troupe that included Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta,
Arjun Rampal and Priyanka Chopra, which went on the Temptations 2004 world tour. The tour was an international and
commercial success, performing nineteen stage shows across the globe.
In 2006, Khan toured again, participating and performing in the successful Heat 2006 concert around the world, along
with Akshay Kumar, Preity Zinta, Sushmita Sen and Celina Jaitley.
In 2006, Khan appeared along with various other Bollywood actors at the Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth
Games in Melbourne, as part of a performance showcasing Indian culture along with Rani Mukerji, and Aishwarya Rai on
behalf of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Delhi.