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 :
Film | Role | Year |
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 Hai | Siddharth “Sid” Sinha | 2001 |
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 |
Dishoom | Rahul ‘Wagah’ Kabiraj | 2016 |
Mom Ittefaq | Matthew Francis Dev Verma | 2017 |
The Accidental Prime Minister Section 375 | Sanjaya Baru Tarun Saluja | 2019 |
Sab Kushal Mangal | Baba Bhandari | 2020 |
State of Siege: Temple Attack Hungama 2 | Major Hanut Singh Premnath Pannu | 2021 |
Drishyam 2 | TBA | 2022 |
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