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Saif Ali Khan Biography:

Saif Ali Khan ( 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.

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 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.

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 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)," 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)[15] 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 Awards and 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.

He married actress Amrita Singh in October 1991. They divorced in 2004. They have two children, a daughter named Sara and a son named Ibrahim, both of whom live with their mother.Khan currently lives in Mumbai.Saif recently broke up with his long-time girlfriend, Rozza Catalino.

Saif was hospitalized at Leelawati Hospital, Mumbai, on February 18, 2007. He had experienced chest pains during rehearsals for the Grand Finale performance at Stardust Awards, to be held that night.Many film personalities came to see the actor in hospital. After hospitalisation he gave up smoking.

Khan is also an active stage performer.

Saif 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 a huge 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 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 earthquake.

He also 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, on behalf of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Delhi.

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.