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Nawab Shah
Nawab Shah at Housefull 2 screening (cropped).jpg
Shah in 2012
NationalityIndian
OccupationActor
Notable workDon 2, Dilwale, Tiger Zinda Hai[1]
Spouse
(m. 2019)

Nawab Shah is an Indian actor, who works in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada-language films and television series. Before entering into films, he played character roles in television serials.[2]

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Hindi

Hindi

Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been described as a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language, which itself is based primarily on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and neighbouring areas of North India. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the two official languages of the Government of India, along with English. It is an official language in nine states and three union territories and an additional official language in three other states. Hindi is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India.

Malayalam

Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was designated a "Classical Language of India" in 2013. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala and Puducherry (Mahé), and is also the primary spoken language of Lakshadweep, and is spoken by 34 million people in India. Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring states; with a significant number of speakers in the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Kanyakumari, district of Tamil Nadu. It is also spoken by the Malayali Diaspora worldwide, especially in the Persian Gulf countries, due to the large populations of Malayali expatriates there. They are a significant population in each city in India including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune etc.

Tamil language

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore, and the Indian Union territory of Puducherry. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is also spoken by the Tamil diaspora found in many countries, including Malaysia, Myanmar, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia and Mauritius. Tamil is also natively spoken by Sri Lankan Moors. One of 22 scheduled languages in the Constitution of India, Tamil was the first to be classified as a classical language of India.

Telugu language

Telugu language

Telugu is a Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language. Spoken by about 96 million people (2022), Telugu is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. It is one of the few languages that has primary official status in more than one Indian state, alongside Hindi and Bengali. Telugu is one of six languages designated as a classical language by the Government of India. It is the 14th most spoken native language in the world. Modern Standard Telugu is based on the dialect of Krishna-Godavari delta region in Coastal Andhra.

Kannada

Kannada

Kannada, previously also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or third language for around 15 million non-native speakers in Karnataka.

Career

Nawab Shah debuted his acting carrier in 1993 Doordarshan Serial, "Akbar The Great" as Babar. Later he acted in popular serials like "Shaktimaan" on DD National in 1997 and "Indian" on SAB TV in 1999.

In 2000 Shah worked with director Rajeev Kumar in Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya. The film had Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala in the leads. Shah's performance went unnoticed.[3]

His next film Be-Lagaam failed at the box office. Ujjal Chattopadhyay's Escape from Taliban was the first film which had given Shah a chance to "prove his talent". The story was more focused on Manisha Koirala, but Shah's performance was praised. It was a box office failure.[3]

Parwana, Woh, and Dukaan met with the same fate. Shah's wait for recognition was prolonged. His performances in Farhan Akhtar's Lakshya and Saurabh Shukla's Chehraa fetched some praise, but he was not getting pivotal roles.[3]

In 2011, Nawab Shah was signed to play a villain in Salman Khan's Bodyguard. He, however, had an accident and was unable to continue with the film.[2] Later that year, he played another negative role as Jabbar, in Don 2, which starred Shah Rukh Khan in the lead.[1] His performance was praised, and the film became a high commercial success.[4] Shah later appeared in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag as a Pakistani athletics coach. He recently played a role in Dilwale, as Raghav, one of Dev Malik's henchmen.[5][6]

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Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya

Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya

Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya is a 2000 Indian Hindi film directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar, starring Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala. This is the second Hindi film after Saat Rang Ke Sapne that Arvind Swamy has ever acted in. The film commenced after the success of the Hindi version of Mani Ratnam's Bombay, which featured the same lead pair. However the release was delayed by three years, until the producers won a PETA case filed against them.

Escape from Taliban

Escape from Taliban

Escape from Taliban is a 2003 Indian film directed by Ujjal Chattopadhyaya. The film is based on the story A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife by Sushmita Banerjee, who fled Afghanistan in 1995 after six years of living there with her Afghan husband.

Manisha Koirala

Manisha Koirala

Manisha Koirala is a Nepalese actress who works in Indian films, predominantly in Hindi and Tamil films and has also worked in few Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Nepali and English films. Known for her work in both commercial and independent cinema, she is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards. In 2001, the Government of Nepal awarded her with the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu, the second highest honor of the country.

Parwana (2003 film)

Parwana (2003 film)

Parwana is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Deepak Bahry. The film stars Ajay Devgn, Amisha Patel and Pooja Batra in the lead roles. Devgn did this film only for money, since he suffered huge losses due to the failure of his home production Raju Chacha.

Farhan Akhtar

Farhan Akhtar

Farhan Akhtar is an Indian actor, director, screenwriter, dialogue writer, playback singer, lyricist, producer and television host who works in Hindi films. Born in Mumbai to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, he grew up under the influence of the Indian film industry.

Lakshya (2004 film)

Lakshya (2004 film)

Lakshya (transl. Aim) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age war-drama film directed by Farhan Akhtar and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinta in lead roles with Boman Irani and Anjula Bedi in supporting roles. Based on the 1999 Kargil War, the film is about Karan Sheirgill, an aimless and lazy boy from Delhi who joins the Indian Army and transforms himself into a soldier to make his girlfriend Romila Dutta proud of him.

Chehraa

Chehraa

Chehraa, is an Indian Hindi thriller film, released on 18 February 2005, starring Bipasha Basu, Dino Morea, Preeti Jhangiani, and Irrfan Khan. The film is directed by Saurabh Shukla. This movie is Saurabh Shukla's second directorial movie after his debut movie Mudda - The Issue.

Salman Khan

Salman Khan

Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who works predominantly in Hindi films. In a film career spanning over thirty five years, Khan has received numerous awards, including two National Film Awards as a film producer, and two Filmfare Awards as an actor. He is cited in the media as one of the most commercially successful actors of Indian cinema. Forbes has included Khan in listings of the highest-paid celebrities in the world, in 2015 and 2018, with him being the highest-ranked Indian in the latter year.

Bodyguard (2011 Hindi film)

Bodyguard (2011 Hindi film)

Bodyguard is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language romantic action film directed by Siddique from a screenplay by Siddique, J.P. Chowksey, Kiran Kotrial and Aloke Upadhyaya. It is a remake of the 2010 Malayalam film of the same name directed by Siddique and stars Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor, with Raj Babbar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Aditya Pancholi and Hazel Keech in supporting roles. In the film, bodyguard Lovely Singh (Khan) is hired to shadow Divya Rana (Kapoor), and falls in love with Chhaya, a fake identity created by Divya.

Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan, also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi films. Referred to in the media as the "Baadshah of Bollywood" and "King Khan", he has appeared in more than 90 films, and earned numerous accolades, including 14 Filmfare Awards. He has been awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India, as well as the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Legion of Honour by the Government of France. Khan has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide. In terms of audience size and income, he has been described as one of the most successful film stars in the world. Many of his films thematise Indian national identity and connections with diaspora communities, or gender, racial, social and religious differences and grievances.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is a 2013 Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, written by lyricist Prasoon Joshi and produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures in association with Rajiv Tandon and editor P.S. Bharathi under the ROMP Pictures banner. Based on the life of Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete and Olympian who was a champion of the Commonwealth Games and two-time 400m champion of the Asian Games. it stars Farhan Akhtar in the titular role alongside Divya Dutta, Meesha Shafi, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh, Art Malik, and Prakash Raj in supporting roles with Sonam Kapoor in an extended cameo appearance. Sports was coordinated by the American action director Rob Miller of ReelSports.

Dilwale (2015 film)

Dilwale (2015 film)

Dilwale (transl. Bravehearts) is an 2015 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty. The film stars Kajol, Shah Rukh Khan, Kriti Sanon, and Varun Dhawan. while Vinod Khanna, Boman Irani, Kabir Bedi and Johnny Lever appear in supporting roles. The film also marked the last film appearance of Khanna, before his death on 27 April 2017.

Personal life

Shah and actress Pooja Batra revealed their relationship in June 2019.[7][8] They dated for few years before marrying because Shah met resistance from his family, his mother in particular preferring that he'd marry a fellow Muslim.[9] They eventually got married on 4 July 2019 in Delhi according to Arya Samaj traditions. Nawab Shah was married prior as well and was a divorcee.[10][11]

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Pooja Batra

Pooja Batra

Pooja Batra Shah is an Indian-American actress and model who primarily works in Hindi films. She was runner-up at the Miss India contest in 1993.

Muslims

Muslims

Muslims are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraham as it was revealed to Muhammad, the main Islamic prophet. The majority of Muslims also follow the teachings and practices of Muhammad (sunnah) as recorded in traditional accounts (hadith).

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. The NCT covers an area of 1,484 square kilometres (573 sq mi). According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8 million. Delhi's urban agglomeration, which includes the satellite cities Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida in an area known as the National Capital Region (NCR), has an estimated population of over 28 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in India and the second-largest in the world.

Arya Samaj

Arya Samaj

Arya Samaj is a monotheistic Indian Hindu reform movement that promotes values and practices based on the belief in the infallible authority of the Vedas. The samaj was founded by the sannyasi (ascetic) Dayanand Saraswati in the 1870s.

Filmography

Film

Hindi
Tamil
Telugu
Malayalam
Kannada

Television

Karma serial

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Hindi cinema

Hindi cinema

Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" and "Hollywood". The industry is a part of the larger Indian cinema, which also includes South Indian cinema and other smaller film industries.

Kartoos

Kartoos

Kartoos is a 1999 Indian Hindi action thriller film directed by Mahesh Bhatt and starring Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff and Manisha Koirala. It was the last release of Mahesh Bhatt as a director until the release of Sadak 2 (2020). The film borrows its plot idea from the 1993 film Point of No Return, which in turn is a remake of the French film La Femme Nikita, where Bridget Fonda essays a role which is very similar to that character of Sanjay Dutt. The film was partly remade in Tamil as Paramasivan (2006).

Ittefaq (2001 film)

Ittefaq (2001 film)

Ittefaq is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Sanjay Khanna. It stars Sunil Shetty, Pooja Batra and Mukul Dev in pivotal roles. Pop musician Remo Fernandes also makes a special appearance in this film.

Lakshya (2004 film)

Lakshya (2004 film)

Lakshya (transl. Aim) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age war-drama film directed by Farhan Akhtar and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinta in lead roles with Boman Irani and Anjula Bedi in supporting roles. Based on the 1999 Kargil War, the film is about Karan Sheirgill, an aimless and lazy boy from Delhi who joins the Indian Army and transforms himself into a soldier to make his girlfriend Romila Dutta proud of him.

Jaan-E-Mann

Jaan-E-Mann

Jaan-E-Mann (transl. Beloved) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film directed by Shirish Kunder and was produced by Sajid Nadiawala. The film stars Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta. This was Kunder's debut film as a director. He also edited and wrote the screenplay and dialogues.

Don 2

Don 2

Don 2: The King Is Back, also known as Don 2, is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Farhan Akhtar. It is the second installment in the Don reboot series. Jointly produced by Excel Entertainment and Red Chillies Entertainment, the film stars Shah Rukh Khan as the titular anti-hero, with Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, Om Puri, Boman Irani, Nawab Shah, Alyy Khan, Rajesh Khattar, Sahil Shroff and Kunal Kapoor playing supporting roles. A sequel to Don (2006), Khan appears as the titular character. The film's story takes place 5 years after the previous film when Don, a ruthless international drug lord, plans to take over the European drug cartel. Meanwhile, Roma has joined the Interpol to hunt him down.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is a 2013 Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, written by lyricist Prasoon Joshi and produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures in association with Rajiv Tandon and editor P.S. Bharathi under the ROMP Pictures banner. Based on the life of Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete and Olympian who was a champion of the Commonwealth Games and two-time 400m champion of the Asian Games. it stars Farhan Akhtar in the titular role alongside Divya Dutta, Meesha Shafi, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh, Art Malik, and Prakash Raj in supporting roles with Sonam Kapoor in an extended cameo appearance. Sports was coordinated by the American action director Rob Miller of ReelSports.

Humshakals

Humshakals

Humshakals (transl. Lookalikes) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Sajid Khan and produced by Vashu Bhagnani. The film stars Saif Ali Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Ram Kapoor, Tamannaah Bhatia, Esha Gupta and Bipasha Basu in the lead roles with Satish Shah, Nawab Shah, Chunky Pandey and Darshan Jariwala in supporting roles. In the film, Khan, Deshmukh and Kapoor each have triple roles, that sums up to a total of 9 characters. The film is shot extensively in foreign locations. It is co-produced by Fox Star Studios and Vashu Bhagnani's Pooja Entertainment. It was released on 20 June 2014. The film released to significant criticism and is considered one of the worst Bollywood movies ever made.

Dilwale (2015 film)

Dilwale (2015 film)

Dilwale (transl. Bravehearts) is an 2015 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty. The film stars Kajol, Shah Rukh Khan, Kriti Sanon, and Varun Dhawan. while Vinod Khanna, Boman Irani, Kabir Bedi and Johnny Lever appear in supporting roles. The film also marked the last film appearance of Khanna, before his death on 27 April 2017.

Ibrahim Khan Gardi

Ibrahim Khan Gardi

Ibrahim Khan Gardi was a South Indian Muslim general of Maratha Empire. An expert in artillery, he initially served the Nizam of Hyderabad, before working for the Peshwa of the Maratha Empire. As a general of the Maratha Empire, he commanded a force of 10,000 men, infantry and artillery. He was captured and killed by the Durrani soldiers during the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761.

Dabangg 3

Dabangg 3

Dabangg 3 transl. Fearless 3 is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Prabhu Deva and jointly produced by Salman Khan Films, Arbaaz Khan Productions and Saffron Broadcast & Media Limited. The third installment in the Dabangg film series, it is an official circumquel to Dabangg (2010) and Dabangg 2 (2012). The film stars Salman Khan, Sudeepa, Sonakshi Sinha, Saiee Manjrekar and Arbaaz Khan. It also features Pramod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia and Mahesh Manjrekar in supporting roles. Written by Salman, the story follows corrupt cop Chulbul Pandey's journey of conflict when he comes across an old ruffian, Bali Singh, whose plain sight refreshes his memory in a trudge down the past, unaware that this can affect the present and the future in more ways than one.

Khuda Haafiz

Khuda Haafiz

Khuda Haafiz is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language direct-to-video action thriller film written and directed by Faruk Kabir and produced by Kumar Mangat Pathak and Abhishek Pathak under Panorama Studios. It stars Vidyut Jammwal and Shivaleeka Oberoi, with Annu Kapoor, Aahana Kumra and Shiv Panditt in supporting roles. Set during the financial crisis of 2007–2008, the film is inspired by true events and follows Sameer Chaudhary, a young man who races against time to rescue his kidnapped wife Nargis from flesh traders. The film premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 14 August 2020. The film received mixed reviews from critics and positive response from audience, praising the cast's performance, action sequences and technical aspects. It was a success in Disney+ Hotstar.

Source: "Nawab Shah (actor)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 7th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawab_Shah_(actor).

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  2. ^ a b "Nawab Shah escapes freak accident". The Times of India. 28 February 2011. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
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  4. ^ "Top Worldwide Grossers ALL TIME: 37 Films Hit 100 Crore". Boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  5. ^ Thakkar, Mehul S (21 January 2012). "Nawab Shah to play Farhan Akhtar's coach in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
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  8. ^ "Actors Pooja Batra and Nawab Shah find soulmates in each other! See photos". DNA India. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
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