Fawad Afzal Khan is a Pakistani actor, producer, screenwriter, model and singer having received several awards including a Filmfare Award, two Lux Style Awards and six Hum Awards.
55 Facts About Fawad Khan
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Fawad Khan formed an alternative rock band, Entity Paradigm, with the show's co-stars and began his music career as its lead singer.
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The band appeared on the finale of Pepsi Battle of the Bands in 2002 and Fawad Khan became known for its 2003 debut album, Irtiqa.
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Fawad Khan made his film debut with a supporting role in Shoaib Mansoor's sociodrama, Khuda Kay Liye, one of Pakistan's highest-grossing films.
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Fawad Khan had his first success in the television period drama, Dastaan, for which he received the Best Male Actor Award at the Pakistan Media Awards.
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Fawad Khan played a lead role in the Pakistani television serial Humsafar, and appeared in Sultana Siddiqui's family drama Zindagi Gulzar Hai.
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Fawad Khan made his Bollywood film debut with the lead role in the romantic comedy, Khoobsurat, for which he received the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.
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Fawad Khan was born in Karachi on 29 November 1981 into a family of ethnic Pashtuns.
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Fawad Khan's father was born in Patiala, British India whereas his mother's family was native of Lucknow, British India and moved to present day Pakistan after the 1947 partition of British India.
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When Fawad Khan was young, his father was in pharmaceutical sales, which required the family to live in Athens, Dubai, Riyadh and Manchester during the Gulf War.
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Fawad Khan's family moved to Lahore when he was 13.
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Fawad Khan has two sisters; his older sister, Aliya, is an architect and his younger sister, Sana, is a physician.
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Fawad Khan studied at an American school, where he said he faced racial issues and was bullied because of his shy, calm, non-combative nature.
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Fawad Khan's first television role was a bumbling spy named Bond with his bandmate, Ahmad Ali Butt, in the 2001 sitcom Jutt and Bond.
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In 2010, Fawad Khan played a conservative, middle-class boy in the telefilm Aaj Kuch Na Kaho.
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Fawad Khan later starred with Mahira Fawad Khan in Sarmad Khoosat's TV serial drama, Humsafar, for which he won the Best Actor award at the 2012 Lux Style Awards.
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Broadcast in 2013, Fawad Khan played a boy who secretly marries a girl in London and is forced to marry another girl when he returns to Pakistan.
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Fawad Khan made his Bollywood debut in Shashanka Ghosh's 2014 comedy-drama, Khoobsurat, with Sonam Kapoor.
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Fawad Khan played Vikram Singh Rathore, Kapoor's love interest and the son of her patient.
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The film was particularly well received in the UK, the UAE, and Pakistan because of Fawad Khan's following in those countries from his television work.
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Fawad Khan received a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut for his role in the film.
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Fawad Khan made a cameo appearance in Asim Raza's coming-of-age film, Ho Mann Jahaan, in January 2016.
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The film, which featured Fawad Khan as part of an ensemble cast including Rishi Kapoor, Ratna Pathak Shah, Rajat Kapoor, Sidharth Malhotra, and Alia Bhatt, was a commercial success.
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Later, in a flash of thought Fawad Khan came to my mind.
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Later in 2016, Fawad Khan appeared in a small role with Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Karan Johar's romantic drama, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.
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In 2022, Fawad Khan made his acting comeback with his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Ms.
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Later in 2022, Khan appeared in Bilal Lashari's Punjabi Action-drama film, The Legend of Maula Jatt, alongside Mahira Khan and Hamza Ali Abbassi in which Fawad played the title role originated by Sultan Rahi.
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Fawad Khan is expected to appear as pop singer Alamgir in Sultan Ghani's Albela Rahi.
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Fawad Khan will appear in Faisal Qureshi's comedy film Money Back Guarantee.
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Fawad Khan will be seen with Mahira Khan in a film called Neelofer.
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Fawad Khan will be seen in the lead role of renowned director and producer Haseeb Hasan's upcoming film "Aan".
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Two rock bands, Ahmed Ali Butt's Entity and Fawad Khan's Paradigm, were active in Lahore between 1994 and 2000.
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Fawad Khan was featured in its video, and said that he had played almost 250 shows as a musician.
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Fawad Khan left the band in 2012 to focus on his acting career.
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Fawad Khan appeared as a judge on Pepsi Battle of the Bands in July 2017, with Atif Aslam and Meesha Shafi.
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Fawad Khan sang the show's introductory song, and appeared in its video with Aslam and Shafi.
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Fawad Khan has supported SOS Children's Villages by participating in children's carnivals in 2014 and 2017.
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In March 2015, Fawad Khan toured the United States and Canada and raised money for Pakistani charities; he has raised money in London for charitable organisations in Pakistan.
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Fawad Khan appeared in Ali Zafar's music video, "Urainge", which was made as a tribute to the victims of the 2014 Peshawar school attack.
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Fawad Khan is the Italian brand Giovanni's brand ambassador in Pakistan.
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Fawad Khan is the Pakistani brand ambassador for the Suzuki Vitara, Pepsi, Oye Hoye, Tapal Tea, Zameen.
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Fawad Khan has been an ambassador for the Pakistan Super League's Islamabad United cricket team since January 2016.
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Fawad Khan modeled for fashion designer Munib Nawaz in 2010, Umar Sayeed in 2012, and for the Republic by Omar Farooq in 2015.
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Fawad Khan is one of the highest-paid actors in the Pakistani film industry.
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Fawad Khan is described by South Asian media as one of its most attractive men, and he was named the Most Beautiful Man at the 2015 Vogue Beauty Awards.
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Fawad Khan was ranked third in the Times of India 50 Most Desirable Men poll in 2014 and 2015, and was fifth in 2016.
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Fawad Khan was nominated for the International Pakistan Prestige Award for Style Icon of the Year in September 2017.
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Fawad Khan was ranked the fifth-most-popular Bollywood actor of November 2014, and was called the most popular Bollywood actor in March 2016 by Times Celebex.
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Fawad Khan was the first Pakistani to appear on the cover of Filmfare magazine, in September 2014, and again appeared on its cover in October 2015 and March 2016.
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Fawad Khan received the Best Male Debut Award at the IBNlive Movie Awards, with 48.54 percent of the vote.
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Fawad Khan married Sadaf Fawad Khan in 2005 after a seven-year courtship.
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Fawad Khan was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 17, after an accident which damaged his pancreas.
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The accident occurred behind a swimming pool, where Fawad Khan was scratched and jumped into untreated water.
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Fawad Khan later realized he had the disease when he lost 10 kilograms.
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Fawad Khan performed Hajj, the annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Makkah, along with his family in 2018 and was therein invited to the Annual Hajj Lunch by King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.