Akshay Khanna

Akshaye Khanna is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films. He is the son of late Indian actor Vinod Khanna. He has also won numerous awards in his career including two Filmfare Awards, three Screen Awards and two IIFA Awards in varied acting categories.

After studying in Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute in Mumbai, he made his acting debut in 1997 with the film Himalay Putra. His next release Border (1997) emerged as a critical and commercial success, earning him the Filmfare Best Debut Award and a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.Khanna rose to prominence with starring roles in the musical romantic drama Taal (1999), the comedy drama Dil Chahta Hai (2001) which won him a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor, the romantic thriller Humraaz (2002) for which he was nominated in the Best Negative Role category, the romantic comedies Hungama (2003) and Hulchul (2004), the murder mystery 36 China Town (2006), the action thriller Race (2008) and the heist comedy Tees Maar Khan (2010), and he also acted in 2010 comedy movie No Problem and he continued to draw praise for his performances in the 1999 romance Dahek, the 2002 psychological thriller Deewangee, the 2007 biographical drama Gandhi, My Father and the 2010 action thriller film Aakrosh.

Following a four-year hiatus since his last release, Gali Gali Chor Hai in 2012,Akshaye Khanna made his comeback with an antagonistic appearance in the action-comedy film Dishoom and appeared as an investigative cop in two thriller releases of 2017, the crime film Mom and the murder mystery Ittefaq.Akshay Khanna is the second son of Hindi actor and politician Vinod Khanna and he is the younger brother of actor Rahul Khanna. His mother, Geetanjali Taleyarkhan, was a Parsi.He attended Bombay International School. He then did his 11th & 12th from Lawrence School, Lovedale, Ooty.

In an interview, he said that he was good more in sports than studies.Khanna made his acting debut with Pankaj Parashar’s romantic drama Himalay Putra (1997), co-starring his father Vinod, Hema Malini, Satish Shah, Johny Lever, Danny Denzongpa, and Amrish Puri.His performance earned him a Screen Award for Best Male Debut, but the film underperformed at the box office despite mostly positive reviews. Later that year, Khanna starred in J. P. Dutta’s war drama Border alongside Sunny Deol, Suniel Shetty, and Jackie Shroff. Set during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the film was about the events of the Battle of Longewala and saw Khanna play the real-life role of Dharamvir Singh Bhan, a commander who is also a part of the battle. The film generated positive reviews and eventually proved to be the second highest-grossing Bollywood film of 1997.

Border won 4 Filmfare Awards, including a Best Male Debut trophy for Khanna. He was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the same ceremony. Khanna’s final release of 1997 was the romance Mohabbat, in which he starred alongside Madhuri Dixit and Sanjay Kapoor.

The film received a negative critical reception and was commercially unsuccessful.The following year, Khanna starred opposite Jyothika in Priyadarshan’s romantic drama Doli Saja Ke Rakhna (1998), in which he portrayed a rich person who falls in love with Jyota’s character. In the same year, Khanna starred opposite Urmila Matondkar in Raj N. Sippy’s drama Kudrat.

Akshaye Khanna All Movie List :

FilmRoleYear
Himalay Putra
Border
Mohabbat
Bhai Bhai Dancer
Abhay Khanna
Dharamvir Singh Bhan
Rohit Malhotra/Tony Braganza
Guest appearance in the Song “Tera Naam Loonga”
1997
Doli Saja Ke Rakhna
Kudrat
Inderjit Bansal
Vijay
1998
Aa Ab Laut Chalen
Laawaris
Taal
Dahek
Rohan Khanna
Vijay/Captain Dada
Manav Mehta
Sameer B. Roshan
1999
Dil Chahta HaiSiddharth “Sid” Sinha2001
Humraaz
Deewangee
Bollywood/Hollywood
Karan Malhotra
Raj Goyal
Himself
2002
Hungama
LOC Kargil
Border Hindustan Ka
Jitender (Jeetu)
Lt. Balwan Singh
Mobarak
2003
Deewaar
Hulchul
Gaurav Kaul
Jai A. Chand
2004
Shaadi Se Pehle
36 China Town
Aap Ki Khatir
Ashish Khanna
Chief Inspector Karan
Aman Mehra
2006
Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love
Naqaab
Gandhi, My Father
Aaja Nachle
Shiven Dungarpur
Vicky Malhotra
Harilal Gandhi
MP Raja Uday Singh
2007
Race
Mere Baap Pehle Aap
Rajiv Singh
Gaurav J. Rane
2008
Luck by Chance
Shortkut
Himself
Shekhar Giriraj
2009
Aakrosh
No Problem
Tees Maar Khan
Siddhant Chaturvedi
Raj Ambani
Aatish Kapoor
2010
Delhi Safari
Gali Gali Chor Hai
Alex (voice)
Bharat Narayan
2012
DishoomRahul ‘Wagah’ Kabiraj2016
Mom
Ittefaq
Matthew Francis
Dev Verma
2017
The Accidental Prime Minister
Section 375
Sanjaya Baru
Tarun Saluja
2019
Sab Kushal MangalBaba Bhandari2020
State of Siege: Temple Attack
Hungama 2
Major Hanut Singh
Premnath Pannu
2021
Drishyam 2TBA2022

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