Aasif Khan | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation | Actor |
Aasif Khan (born 13 March 1991) is an Indian actor, best known for his role as Babar in action crime thriller web television series Mirzapur (2018-2020). [1]
Aasif Khan was born and raised in Nimbahera, a small town in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan, India. [2] His father, Mr. Late Ayyub Khan was an employee in J.K. Cement, and his mother, Mrs. Firdous Ayyub Khan is a housewife. He has two brothers and a sister. [3]
Khan was mediocre in academics but had a great inclination towards the field of arts. His keenness for acting began in 2001 at his school's annual event, where he performed the role of a servant in Kissa Kursi Ka play. [2] [4] He was deeply inspired by the "shaadiwallah" act performed by comedian Raju Srivastava in the popular TV show The Great Indian Laughter Challenge. [2] [4] It encouraged him to participate in the stand-up competition held locally where he surprisingly won. [3] [4]
The sudden demise of his father in 2008 brought his acting ambition to a halt. He engaged himself in taking up small jobs for a living and parallelly completed his higher secondary education. [2] [4] [5]
Khan moved to Mumbai in 2010 to revive his acting ambition. [2] For sustenance, he initially worked in a hotel as a waiter. He later worked in a mall and simultaneously gave auditions, where he was advised to learn the art of acting and perform theatre. [2] [6] He appeared in Ready and Agneepath as a junior artist. [3] [7]
In 2011, he joined Sarthak and Ujaagar Theatre Group in Jaipur to learn theatre and sharpen his acting skills. He performed as a professional theatre artist, his first play being Abu Hassan directed by Rajiv Acharya, and several others for 5 years with prestigious groups and renowned personalities like Sabir Khan. [2] [3] [8] [9] [10] [11]
In 2015, he performed the Rajasthani play Kasumal Sapno, a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Ajeet Singh Palawat at the International Theatre Festival in Karachi organized by the Pakistan National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA). [12] [13] [14]
Aasif returned to Mumbai in 2016 and worked as a casting associate for a year in Casting Bay owned by his mentor cum friend Abhishek Banerjee and Anmol Ahuja. [2] [3] He made cameo appearances in Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and Pari. [2] [7]
He played the lead role as Durgesh Kumar – a young aspirant for an interview in Anurag Worlikar's short film Vacancy (2017) for which he won the Best Actor award in Skylight Film Festival (2018) and Cineshorts by Viacom18. [5] [7]
In 2018, he played Babar, a loyal aide in web series Mirzapur. [15]
Aasif made his Bollywood film debut in Raj Kumar Gupta's India's Most Wanted (2019) where he played a crucial role of Bittu Sinha alongside Arjun Kapoor. [2] He appeared as Chintu in Humorously Yours (2019). [3]
In 2020, Aasif overwhelmed the audience by his appearance in a crucial role of a journalist as Anas Ahmad in Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega. [16] [17] [18] He was next seen as a stubborn bridegroom in The Viral Fever's comedy drama Panchayat (2020). [18] [19] He then appeared in Paatal Lok (2020) as Kabir M, a petty car thief who makes great efforts in dissembling his identity during an interrogation. [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
He continued to play Babar in Mirzapur season 2 [1] [26] and appeared in short film: Sorry (2020). [27] [28]
In 2021, Khan appeared in Click (2021), [29] a short film streamed on Disney+ Hotstar [30] and then appeared as Parchun in Umesh Bist's comedy-drama film Pagglait [31] [32] which was released on 26 March 2021 on Netflix. [33] [9] [10] [11]
In 2022, Aasif appeared in the web series Human which was streamed on Disney+ Hotstar, [7] in Dil Se Hero, a mini-series by FilterCopy, [34] and in Murder In Agonda, an Amazon miniTV web series. [35] [36]
Aasif appeared as a lead protagonist in Ghar Set Hai, [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] a comedy-drama web television series streamed on VOOT. [42]
Khan was next seen in The Great Indian Family, a romantic comedy film written and directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films banner. [43] He was featured in Amazon miniTV's web series - Dehati Ladke, as Prashant Bhaiya, who is an extremely talented UPSC aspirant, a mentor and a role model for the youth. [44] Aasif's portrayal of Prashant Bhaiya, left a lasting mark adding to the richness of the character dynamics. [45]
Aasif's return as Ganesh in Panchayat season 3 was a perfect set up for an explosive season finale. His surprise appearance was massively applauded by the audience with majority complimenting his role from being the most hated in season 1 to the most loved character in season 3. [46] [47]
He will be seen next in horror-comedy films Kakuda [48] and The Virgin Tree, [49] and in romantic comedy films viz. Ishq Chakkallas [50] and Noorani Chehra. [51] [52] Aasif will also be featured in Section 108, a thriller drama, written and directed by Rasikh Khan and presented by Anees Bazmee. [53] [54]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | Ready | Junior artist | [3] | |
2012 | Agneepath | Junior artist | ||
2017 | Toilet: Ek Prem Katha | Reporter | [2] | |
2018 | Pari | Ismail | ||
2019 | India's Most Wanted | Bittu Sinha | [3] | |
2021 | Pagglait | Parchun | [7] [9] [10] [11] | |
2023 | The Great Indian Family | Tulsidas Mishra | [43] | |
2024 | Kakuda | Kilvish | [55] [56] | |
2024 | Section 108 † | TBA | [53] [54] | |
TBA |
Ishq Chakallas † |
TBA | [50] | |
Noorani Chehra † | Zaheer | Completed [57] | [52] [58] | |
The Virgin Tree † | TBA | Filming [49] | [49] |
Year | Title | Role | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|
2018 | Mirzapur | Babar | [15] |
2019 | Humorously Yours | Chintu | [3] |
2020 | Jamtara - Sabka Number Ayega | Anas Ahmad | [16] |
Panchayat | Ganesh- the groom | [18] | |
Paatal Lok | Kabir M | [20] | |
Mirzapur: Season 2 | Babar | [1] [26] | |
2022 | Human | Omar Pervez | [7] [59] [60] [61] |
Murder In Agonda | Sanket Salelkar | [35] [36] [62] | |
Ghar Set Hai | Lakhan | [37] [41] | |
2023 | Dehati Ladke | Prashant Bhaiya | [63] |
2024 | Dehati Ladke Season 2 | Prashant Bhaiya | [45] |
Panchayat :Season 3 | Ganesh | [64] |
Year | Title | Role | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|
2017 | Vacancy | Durgesh Kumar | [5] |
2020 | Sorry | Yaman | [27] [28] |
2021 | Click | Ashish | [29] |
2022 | Dil Se Hero | Vikram | [34] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | Galtiyan | Aditya | Debut music video | [65] |
Year | Film/Series |
---|---|
2016-2017 | TVF Bachelors |
2017 | What Will People Say |
Secret Superstar | |
2018 | Pari |
Raid | |
Bhonsle | |
Mirzapur | |
2019 | Luka Chuppi |
Arjun Patiala | |
ChupChaap |
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | Cineshorts by Viacom18 | Best Actor | Vacancy | Won |
2018 | Skylight Film Festival | Best Actor | Vacancy | Won |
Aasif Khan | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation | Actor |
Aasif Khan (born 13 March 1991) is an Indian actor, best known for his role as Babar in action crime thriller web television series Mirzapur (2018-2020). [1]
Aasif Khan was born and raised in Nimbahera, a small town in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan, India. [2] His father, Mr. Late Ayyub Khan was an employee in J.K. Cement, and his mother, Mrs. Firdous Ayyub Khan is a housewife. He has two brothers and a sister. [3]
Khan was mediocre in academics but had a great inclination towards the field of arts. His keenness for acting began in 2001 at his school's annual event, where he performed the role of a servant in Kissa Kursi Ka play. [2] [4] He was deeply inspired by the "shaadiwallah" act performed by comedian Raju Srivastava in the popular TV show The Great Indian Laughter Challenge. [2] [4] It encouraged him to participate in the stand-up competition held locally where he surprisingly won. [3] [4]
The sudden demise of his father in 2008 brought his acting ambition to a halt. He engaged himself in taking up small jobs for a living and parallelly completed his higher secondary education. [2] [4] [5]
Khan moved to Mumbai in 2010 to revive his acting ambition. [2] For sustenance, he initially worked in a hotel as a waiter. He later worked in a mall and simultaneously gave auditions, where he was advised to learn the art of acting and perform theatre. [2] [6] He appeared in Ready and Agneepath as a junior artist. [3] [7]
In 2011, he joined Sarthak and Ujaagar Theatre Group in Jaipur to learn theatre and sharpen his acting skills. He performed as a professional theatre artist, his first play being Abu Hassan directed by Rajiv Acharya, and several others for 5 years with prestigious groups and renowned personalities like Sabir Khan. [2] [3] [8] [9] [10] [11]
In 2015, he performed the Rajasthani play Kasumal Sapno, a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Ajeet Singh Palawat at the International Theatre Festival in Karachi organized by the Pakistan National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA). [12] [13] [14]
Aasif returned to Mumbai in 2016 and worked as a casting associate for a year in Casting Bay owned by his mentor cum friend Abhishek Banerjee and Anmol Ahuja. [2] [3] He made cameo appearances in Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and Pari. [2] [7]
He played the lead role as Durgesh Kumar – a young aspirant for an interview in Anurag Worlikar's short film Vacancy (2017) for which he won the Best Actor award in Skylight Film Festival (2018) and Cineshorts by Viacom18. [5] [7]
In 2018, he played Babar, a loyal aide in web series Mirzapur. [15]
Aasif made his Bollywood film debut in Raj Kumar Gupta's India's Most Wanted (2019) where he played a crucial role of Bittu Sinha alongside Arjun Kapoor. [2] He appeared as Chintu in Humorously Yours (2019). [3]
In 2020, Aasif overwhelmed the audience by his appearance in a crucial role of a journalist as Anas Ahmad in Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega. [16] [17] [18] He was next seen as a stubborn bridegroom in The Viral Fever's comedy drama Panchayat (2020). [18] [19] He then appeared in Paatal Lok (2020) as Kabir M, a petty car thief who makes great efforts in dissembling his identity during an interrogation. [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
He continued to play Babar in Mirzapur season 2 [1] [26] and appeared in short film: Sorry (2020). [27] [28]
In 2021, Khan appeared in Click (2021), [29] a short film streamed on Disney+ Hotstar [30] and then appeared as Parchun in Umesh Bist's comedy-drama film Pagglait [31] [32] which was released on 26 March 2021 on Netflix. [33] [9] [10] [11]
In 2022, Aasif appeared in the web series Human which was streamed on Disney+ Hotstar, [7] in Dil Se Hero, a mini-series by FilterCopy, [34] and in Murder In Agonda, an Amazon miniTV web series. [35] [36]
Aasif appeared as a lead protagonist in Ghar Set Hai, [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] a comedy-drama web television series streamed on VOOT. [42]
Khan was next seen in The Great Indian Family, a romantic comedy film written and directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films banner. [43] He was featured in Amazon miniTV's web series - Dehati Ladke, as Prashant Bhaiya, who is an extremely talented UPSC aspirant, a mentor and a role model for the youth. [44] Aasif's portrayal of Prashant Bhaiya, left a lasting mark adding to the richness of the character dynamics. [45]
Aasif's return as Ganesh in Panchayat season 3 was a perfect set up for an explosive season finale. His surprise appearance was massively applauded by the audience with majority complimenting his role from being the most hated in season 1 to the most loved character in season 3. [46] [47]
He will be seen next in horror-comedy films Kakuda [48] and The Virgin Tree, [49] and in romantic comedy films viz. Ishq Chakkallas [50] and Noorani Chehra. [51] [52] Aasif will also be featured in Section 108, a thriller drama, written and directed by Rasikh Khan and presented by Anees Bazmee. [53] [54]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | Ready | Junior artist | [3] | |
2012 | Agneepath | Junior artist | ||
2017 | Toilet: Ek Prem Katha | Reporter | [2] | |
2018 | Pari | Ismail | ||
2019 | India's Most Wanted | Bittu Sinha | [3] | |
2021 | Pagglait | Parchun | [7] [9] [10] [11] | |
2023 | The Great Indian Family | Tulsidas Mishra | [43] | |
2024 | Kakuda | Kilvish | [55] [56] | |
2024 | Section 108 † | TBA | [53] [54] | |
TBA |
Ishq Chakallas † |
TBA | [50] | |
Noorani Chehra † | Zaheer | Completed [57] | [52] [58] | |
The Virgin Tree † | TBA | Filming [49] | [49] |
Year | Title | Role | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|
2018 | Mirzapur | Babar | [15] |
2019 | Humorously Yours | Chintu | [3] |
2020 | Jamtara - Sabka Number Ayega | Anas Ahmad | [16] |
Panchayat | Ganesh- the groom | [18] | |
Paatal Lok | Kabir M | [20] | |
Mirzapur: Season 2 | Babar | [1] [26] | |
2022 | Human | Omar Pervez | [7] [59] [60] [61] |
Murder In Agonda | Sanket Salelkar | [35] [36] [62] | |
Ghar Set Hai | Lakhan | [37] [41] | |
2023 | Dehati Ladke | Prashant Bhaiya | [63] |
2024 | Dehati Ladke Season 2 | Prashant Bhaiya | [45] |
Panchayat :Season 3 | Ganesh | [64] |
Year | Title | Role | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|
2017 | Vacancy | Durgesh Kumar | [5] |
2020 | Sorry | Yaman | [27] [28] |
2021 | Click | Ashish | [29] |
2022 | Dil Se Hero | Vikram | [34] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | Galtiyan | Aditya | Debut music video | [65] |
Year | Film/Series |
---|---|
2016-2017 | TVF Bachelors |
2017 | What Will People Say |
Secret Superstar | |
2018 | Pari |
Raid | |
Bhonsle | |
Mirzapur | |
2019 | Luka Chuppi |
Arjun Patiala | |
ChupChaap |
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | Cineshorts by Viacom18 | Best Actor | Vacancy | Won |
2018 | Skylight Film Festival | Best Actor | Vacancy | Won |