Fawad Afzal Khan (Urdu: فواد افضل خان‎; born 29 November 1981) is a Pakistani film and television actor, producer, singer and model. Khan has established himself as a critically and commercially successful actor in the Pakistani television and film industry.

Khan rose to prominence in the 2007 Pakistani movie Khuda Kay Liye, and later gained acclaim as a lead actor in TV shows Humsafarand Zindagi Gulzar Hai, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Lux Style Awards. In 2014, Khan made his Bollywood debut in the romantic comedy film Khoobsurat. and received Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.

Personal life

Khan was born on 29 November 1981 in Karachi. He originates from the city of Lahore in Punjab. Khan, as his father's job required, spent the earlier years of his life living abroad with his family in Athens, Dubai, Riyadh and then Manchester during the Gulf War, before moving back to Lahore when he was aged 13. According to Khan, he is a Punjabi ofPathan ancestry. By age 20, Khan could play the guitar, bass and drums. He put his voice to use as the lead singer of the band Entity Paradigm.^[1] Khan obtained his A-levels from the Lahore Grammar School (LGS) and went on to complete his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences(NUCES) in Lahore. His first performance was amateur acting in a theatre play called Spartacus during A-level in 1999.

Khan married on 12 November 2005 after a courtship of 8 years. He has one son with his wife. Khan, in collaboration with his wife, established a clothing brand called SILK by Fawad Khan, the debut collection was launched in August 2012 at Lahore.

Khan, developed Diabetes mellitus type 1 at the age of 17 after he met an accident that damaged his pancreas

Career

Debut in television and cinema

Fawad khan first public performance was at high school play which was directed by his friend Manal Butt. A famous director Shehzad Anjum judged the acting skills of Khan who ultimately helped him to enter the media world. Khan's first television appearance was in the funny TV detective series called Jutt and Bond which also starred his friend and former band member Ahmed Ali Butt in 2000. He was 19-years old when he played the bumbling spy role in this play.He and Butt started their band, Entity Paradigm (EP), around this time. Khan's cinematic debut was in 2007 from the movie Khuda Kay Liye in which he played the role of a young musician Sarmad. Khuda Kay Liye was the highest-grossing Pakistani film of 2007 for which he won Lux Style Award for Best Film Actor.

Then, he went on to pursue his acting career on Television. In 2008, he stepped into full-time drama serials appearing in Anjum Shehzad's travel adventure drama series Satrangi. Khan portrayed the role of an engineering student who hires a mini-bus and takes his six friend to a trip around the country. Khan also wrote and sang the original soundtrack of the drama. Later he also appeared in Dil Deke Jayen Ge and Jeevan Ki Rahoon Main

Television (2010–2014)

It was in 2010 when Khan earned major accolades in his television career from critics and audience for playing the role of Hassan in Period drama Dastaan, it starred Sanam Balochopposite him and was directed by Haissam Hussain  After the success of Dastaan, Khan and Sanam Baloch were casted in two more serials Kuch Pyar Ka Pagalpan and Akbari Asghari immediately after Dastaan. Both shows were declared commercially successful. Khan considers Akbari Asghari as his career best performance.

In 2011, Khan became a household name after playing the role of Asher Hussain in the drama Humsafar. Humsafar received high Television Rating Points and went on to win the Best TV Play (Satellite) award at the 12th Lux Style Awards. Khan was praised for his performance and he won the Best TV Actor (Satellite) award for his portrayal of Asher Hussain in the same ceremony. After Humsafar, Khan next appeared in the drama Ashk which received mixed reviews from audience and critics for its execution.

Next benchmark success of Khan's career came with the popular show Zindagi Gulzar Hai hitting the Pakistani television screen in 2012-13. He played the role of a rich college going student named Zaroon Junaid opposite actress Sanam Saeed. Khan's performance earned him accolades from both viewers and reviewers. He won multiple awards for the show including Best Actor-Popular award at the 2nd Hum Awards and Best Actor satellite at 13th Lux Style Awards  His natural chemistry with Sanam Saeed earned appreciation from the audience and critics alike; the couple won the Best Onscreen Couple award in both popular and jury categories at the 2nd Hum Awards. He later went on to do more dramas like Behadd, Numm and Armaan, all of which added to his body of praise-worthy work.

 

Bollywood (2014–present)

Khan was spposed to make his Bollywood debut soon after Khuda Kay Liye was released. But due to unstable political situation between Pakistan and India after Mumbai attacks things could not materialize. "This is certainly not the first Bollywood project that was offered to me, Way back in 2008, I was supposed to fly down to Mumbai to meet several producers and directors, but I wasn’t able to make it. When Khoobsurat came along, there was no way I could say no. I mean, it was the chance to meet and work with a legend such as Anil Kapoor." said Khan in an interview he gave in 2014

In 2014, Khan made his debut in Bollywood in Shashanka Ghosh's Khoobsurat opposite Sonam Kapoor. A remake of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1980 hit of the same name starring Rekha and Rakesh Roshan, the film revolves around Sonam Kapoor's character, Dr. Mili Chakravarty, who is a middle class physiotherapist from Delhi. Khan plays Yuvraj Vikram Singh Rathore, Mili's love interest and the son of her patient; a Royal Indian family. Movie received positive to mediocre reviews, however Khan's performance was praised by the critics and noted as one of the highlights of the film. Moreover, the film emerged as a box office success, being declared as a "hit" by various media outlets. The film was particularly well received in the UK, UAE and Pakistan owing to Khan's following in these countries for his previous television work. Fawad khan will be seen with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in his upcoming movie "Ae dil hai Mushkil" which will be produced by Karan Johar. According to the sources of media, this upcoming movie is a remake of "Doosra Aadmi" which was the 1997 Bollywood film