Saif Ali Khan

Saif Ali Khan
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Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan
Khan in 2020
Born Sajid Ali Khan Pataudi
16 August 1970 (age 52)
New Delhi, India
Alma mater Winchester College
Occupation
Actorproducer
Years active 1991–present
Works Full list
Spouse(s) Amrita Singh
(m. 1991; div. 2004)
Kareena Kapoor (m. 2012)
Children 4; including Sara Ali Khan
Parents
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (father)
Sharmila Tagore (mother)
Relatives
Pataudi family
Tagore family
Kapoor family (by marriage)
Awards Full list
Honours Padma Shri (2010)
Saif Ali Khan (pronounced [ˈsɛːf əˈli xaːn]; born Sajid Ali Khan Pataudi; 16 August 1970)[1] is an Indian
actor and film producer who works in Hindi films. Part of the Pataudi family, he is the son of actress
Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.
Khan made his acting debut in Parampara (1993). He failed to earn hits with solo lead films in the 90s
and had rare successes only in the multi-starrers Yeh Dillagi (1994), Main Khiladi Tu Anari (1994),
Kachche Dhaage (1999) and Hum Saath-Saath Hain (1999). It was the 2000s when Khan proved his
potential as an established actor starting with the sleeper hit Kya Kehna (2000) and won many accolades
for the ensemble comedy-dramas Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003). Further critical and
commercial success came with Hum Tum (2004), Parineeta (2005), Salaam Namaste (2005) and Ta Ra
Rum Pum (2007).
Khan also earned critical acclaim for playing a manipulative businessman in Ek Hasina Thi (2004), an
apprentice in the English film Being Cyrus (2006) and an antagonist in Omkara (2006). His biggest hits as
lead include Race (2008), Love Aaj Kal (2009), Cocktail (2012) and Race 2 (2013). After another string of
under-performing ventures, Khan was appreciated for headlining Netflix's first original Indian series
Sacred Games (2018) and the main antagonist in Tanhaji (2020), which ranks as his highest grossing
release.
Khan has won several accolades, including a National Film Award and seven Filmfare Awards, and
received the Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award in 2010.[2] He has been noted for his
performances in a range of film genres—from crime dramas to action thrillers and comic romances. In
addition to film acting, Khan is a frequent television presenter, stage show performer, and the owner of
the production companies Illuminati Films and Black Knight Films.Early life and family
Main article: Pataudi family
Khan was born on 16 August 1970 in New Delhi, India to Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, a former captain of
the Indian national cricket team, and his wife Sharmila Tagore, a film actress.[3][4] Khan's father, who
was the son of the last ruling Nawab of the princely state of Pataudi during the British Raj, received a
privy purse from the Government of India under terms worked out in the Political integration of India
and was allowed to use the title Nawab of Pataudi until 1971 when the title was abolished. Following
Mansur Ali Khan's death in 2011, a symbolic pagri ceremony was held in the village of Pataudi, Haryana
to "crown" Khan as the "tenth Nawab of Pataudi," which Khan attended to please the sentiments of the
villagers, who wanted him to continue a family tradition.[a] Khan has two younger sisters, jewelry
designer Saba Ali Khan and actress Soha Ali Khan, and is the paternal grandson of Iftikhar Ali Khan
Pataudi who played for the Indian cricket team in England in 1946, and Sajida Sultan, the Nawab Begum
of Bhopal. Hamidullah Khan, the last ruling Nawab of Bhopal was his great-grandfather, and the cricketer
Saad Bin Jung is his first cousin.[3][6][7][8]
Speaking about his childhood, Khan said that he was exposed to a "life beyond movies",[9] and his
mother described him as someone who was "not an easy child [...] He was impulsive [and]
spontaneous."[10] Saif grew up a Muslim.[4] As a child, he recalls fond memories of watching his father
playing cricket in the garden, and has emphasised his father's education and background as having a
lasting impression on how family life was conducted.[11] Khan studied at The Lawrence School, Sanawar
in Himachal Pradesh and was later sent to Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire at the age of nine.[3] He
next enrolled at Winchester College and explained that "I did not take advantage of my tenure [there].
My classmates went on to Oxford and Cambridge, but I was not academically inclined. When I applied
myself, which was not often, I stood first. I should have studied harder."[3]
After graduating from the boarding school, Khan returned to India and worked for an advertising firm in
Delhi for two months.[12] He later appeared in the television commercial for Gwalior Suiting on the
insistence of a family friend, and was subsequently cast by director Anand Mahindroo. The project
eventually got cancelled but Khan relocated to Mumbai to pursue a career in film; he recalls, "Finally I
had some direction and focus. I remember [...] feeling so excited that I could go to Mumbai, stay in my
own place and enjoy the adventure of starting my own career."[12]

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Saif Ali Khan

Saif Ali Khan

Born Sajid Ali Khan Pataudi

16 August 1970 (age 52)

New Delhi, India

Alma mater Winchester College

Years active 1991–present

Works Full list

Spouse(s) Amrita Singh

(m. 1991; div. 2004)

Kareena Kapoor (m. 2012)

Children 4; including Sara Ali Khan

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (father)

Sharmila Tagore (mother)

Awards Full list

Honours Padma Shri (2010)

Main article: Pataudi family

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