Zayed Khan

Khan's parents are former Bollywood actor-director Shah Abbas Khan (Sanjay Khan) and interior designer-food writer Zarine Khan (née Katrak).{{Cite web |last=Vazir |first=Varun |date=5 December 2017 |title=Khaana for the Khans |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/interview-khaana-for-the-khans-2103761 |website=DNA India |quote=[Zayed Khan's mother] As I came from an aristocratic Parsi background – the Katrak family (...)}} His father is of mixed Afghan and Iranian descent[https://www.dawn.com/news/922791 "Bollywood actor Firoz Khan dies at 70"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011135512/https://www.dawn.com/news/922791 |date=11 October 2020 }} (27 April 2009), Dawn News. Retrieved 12 March 2009. while his mother comes from a Parsi family.Malavika Sangghvi (8 June 2012), [https://www.mid-day.com/articles/parsis-in-bollywood/166916 "Parsis in Bollywood"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025225538/https://www.mid-day.com/articles/parsis-in-bollywood/166916 |date=25 October 2018 }}, mid-day. Retrieved 25 October 2018. Zayed, who was raised as a Muslim, is the youngest of four children and the only son of his parents. His elder sisters are Simone Khan (married to Ajay Arora), Sussanne Khan (ex-wife of actor Hrithik Roshan), and Farah Khan Ali (ex-wife of DJ Aqeel). Khan is the nephew of actor Feroz Khan and director Akbar Khan (brothers of Sanjay Khan) and first cousin of Bollywood actor, Fardeen Khan.{{cite news |title=Afghan traces Bolly Khans' Pathan roots |url=http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/may/180511-Kabul-Pathan-community-Hindi-films-Bolly-Khans.htm |publisher=MiD DAY |access-date=17 June 2011 |date=18 May 2011 |archive-date=22 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131122140218/http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/may/180511-Kabul-Pathan-community-Hindi-films-Bolly-Khans.htm |url-status=live}}

Khan attended Welham Boys' School, Dehradun, and later Kodaikanal International School, Kodaikanal, with childhood friend Esha Deol and Mallaika Parekh. He studied Business Management at the Montgomery College{{cite web |url=http://www.verveonline.com/36/people/men/zayed.shtml |title=People – The other side of Zayed Khan |access-date=30 January 2016 |archive-date=3 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703095526/http://www.verveonline.com/36/people/men/zayed.shtml |url-status=live}} and Film Making at London Film Academy.

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Khan made his screen debut in 2003 in the film Chura Liyaa Hai Tumne.{{cite news |title=Meet the new Khan of bollywood |url=http://archive.mid-day.com/entertainment/2002/nov/37762.htm |publisher=MiD DAY |date=30 November 2002 |access-date=15 January 2015 |archive-date=28 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328033955/http://archive.mid-day.com/entertainment/2002/nov/37762.htm |url-status=live}}

In 2004, he starred in Main Hoon Na, which was one of the biggest hits in his career. It was the second highest-grossing film of 2004 behind Veer-Zaara and was declared a hit. Khan was subsequently nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2005. He also starred alongside Amrita Arora in a music video called Disco 82 Remix by DJ Aqeel for UMI-10.

Khan had four releases in 2005. He played an obsessive lover in Vaada alongside Arjun Rampal and Ameesha Patel. He then starred in Shabd as a photography professor, which he was excited about because he had always wanted to do a film with Aishwarya Rai. His third release, Anubhav Sinha's action thriller Dus, where he played a cop, did well. It was Big Hit and was the third highest-grossing film of 2005. Khan's final release of the year, Shaadi No. 1, flopped at the box office.

He starred in Sohail Khan's action multi-starrer, Fight Club - Members Only in 2006. Next, he appeared in Rocky: The Rebel. Khan revealed that he had ghost-written some scenes in the film. He had first begun script-writing when he was studying in London.

Both of his films in 2007 were action multi-starrers. Anubhav Sinha's Cash was originally meant to be the sequel to Dus, but ended up differently. Due to this, some of the cast of Dus also star in Cash. It performed reasonably well in its first week, but was unable to replicate the success of Dus and was eventually declared a flop. His next film, Speed, also failed at the box office.

In 2008, Khan had the leading role as a news reporter in Apoorva Lakhia's Mission Istaanbul opposite Vivek Oberoi. He also starred in the Bollywood remake of Rain Man, Yuvvraaj with Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anil Kapoor.

The following year, he featured in the underwater action thriller Blue. At the time of its release, the film broke the record for having the highest budget for a Bollywood film. It had an excellent opening weekend on Diwali, collecting {{INR}}480 million, but was a below-average grosser. He also filmed Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene, a comedy thriller film. However, it ran into production hassles and was released in 2015.

Khan played a supporting role as an unfaithful fiancé in the 2010 Ranbir Kapoor–Priyanka Chopra starrer, Anjaana Anjaani.

In 2011, the actor ventured into production with his co-owned production house, Born Free Entertainment along with friend and actress Dia Mirza and her husband, Sahil Sanga. Their first film, Love Breakups Zindagi, was released on 7 October 2011, and was met with a lukewarm response.

In 2012, Khan played a supporting role in Tezz, which stars Anil Kapoor and Ajay Devgan in the lead.

In August 2017, Khan made his television debut on a show called Haasil playing the role of Ranvir Raichand opposite Vatsal Sheth and Nikita Dutta.{{cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/zayed-khan-sizzles-as-ranvir-raichand-in-the-first-teaser-of-haasil-4808660/ |title=Zayed Khan sizzles as Ranvir Raichand in the first teaser of Haasil |work=The Indian Express |publisher=Indian Express Group |date=22 August 2017 |access-date=25 August 2017 |archive-date=25 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825191347/http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/zayed-khan-sizzles-as-ranvir-raichand-in-the-first-teaser-of-haasil-4808660/ |url-status=live}} The show premiered in October 2017.

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Khan married his high school sweetheart Malaika Parekh on 20 November 2005. In an interview, Malaika stated that Zayed proposed four times to her and she has four rings from him.{{cite AV media |title=Rendezvous with Simi Garewal – Zayed with Malaika and sisters (Farah, Simone, Sussanne) |year=2006 |author=Simi Garewal |author-link=Simi Garewal |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsq-Z-sg7rA |time=17:42 |publisher=Youtube |access-date=5 September 2016 |archive-date=3 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703221113/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsq-Z-sg7rA&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live}} They are of exactly the same age and they both studied in Kodaikanal International School.{{cn|date=January 2023}} They first became acquainted with each other in 1995.{{cite AV media |title=Rendezvous with Simi Garewal – Zayed with Malaika and sisters (Farah, Simone, Sussanne) |year=2006 |author=Simi Garewal |author-link=Simi Garewal |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsq-Z-sg7rA |time=9:25 |publisher=Youtube |access-date=5 September 2016 |archive-date=3 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703221113/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsq-Z-sg7rA&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live}}

The couple have two sons, born in 2008 and 2011. In 2008, Khan gave up smoking upon the birth of his first son, to ensure that his children grew up without accepting any bad habits as normal.{{cite news |date=25 June 2008 |url=http://www.filmibeat.com/bollywood/news/2008/zayed-khan-quits-smoking-250608.html |title=Zayed Khan kicks the butt for son |publisher=Filmibeat |access-date=15 January 2015 |archive-date=11 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111151409/http://www.filmibeat.com/bollywood/news/2008/zayed-khan-quits-smoking-250608.html |url-status=live}}

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