Fawad Khan

Based on Razia Butt's novel, Bano, its story (set in the 1940s) revolves around the separation of a young couple during the 1947 partition.

A Dawn reviewer wrote that Khan and his costars gave "superlative performances to match Samira Fazal's wonderful script", and The Express Tribune praised the lead pair's onscreen chemistry.

For his performance, Khan won the Best Drama Actor award at the Pakistan Media Awards.

He was born to a family of Pashtun background to a father was born in Patiala (present-day Punjab, India) whereas his mother's family was native of Lucknow (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India), who moved Pakistan after the 1947 partition of British India.

When Khan was young, his father was in pharmaceutical sales, which required the family to live in Athens, Dubai, Riyadh and Manchester during the Gulf War.

His family moved to Lahore, Punjab when he was 13.

He has two sisters; his older sister, Aliya, is an architect and his younger sister, Sana, is a physician.

He currently lives in Lahore.

Khan studied at an American school, where he said he faced racial issues and was bullied because of his shy, calm, non-combative nature.

Khan passed his A-levels at the Lahore Grammar School, Johar Town (LGS JT), and received a bachelor's degree in software engineering from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES) in Lahore.

Because he could not find a job as a programmer, he soon began acting.

In a Forbes India interview, Khan said that he had also failed to find a job in marketing.

By then he could play guitar, bass and drums, and became Entity Paradigm's lead singer.

Khan's first amateur performance was in the title role of a play, Spartacus.

Fawad Afzal Khan (born 29 November 1981) is a Pakistani actor, producer, screenwriter and singer known for his work in films and television.

Having received several accolades, including a Filmfare Award, two Lux Style Awards and six Hum Awards, he is widely regarded one of the greatest contemporary artists hailing from Asia.

Khan began his acting career on the television sitcom, Jutt and Bond.

He formed an alternative rock band, Entity Paradigm, with the show's co-stars and began his music career as its lead singer.

Khan was born in Karachi, Sindh on 29 November 1981.

Khan's first television role was a bumbling spy named Bond with his bandmate, Ahmad Ali Butt, in the 2001 sitcom Jutt and Bond.

His debut film was Shoaib Mansoor's sociodrama Khuda Kay Liye, where he played a musician who is brainwashed by the local maulvi.

Although the film received positive reviews, critical response to Khan's performance was mixed.

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama called it "strictly OK", but The Economic Times' film critic Gaurav Malani found him "engaged" in the role of an extremist.

The band appeared on the finale of Pepsi Battle of the Bands in 2002 and Khan became known for its 2003 debut album, Irtiqa.

After about 250 performances, he left the band to pursue a film career.

Khan made his film debut with a supporting role in Shoaib Mansoor's sociodrama, Khuda Kay Liye (2007), one of Pakistan's highest-grossing films.

Released in 2007, the film grossed ₨ 250 million and is one of Pakistan's highest-grossing films.

Khan received the Lux Style Award for Best Actor – Film in 2008, and appeared in the TV series Dil Deke Jaenge.

Later that year, in Anjum Shahzad's travel adventure TV series Satrangi, he played an engineer who goes on a road trip.

He had his first success in the television period drama, Dastaan (2010), for which he received the Best Male Actor Award at the Pakistan Media Awards.

In 2010, Khan played a conservative, middle-class boy in the telefilm Aaj Kuch Na Kaho.

Although it received negative reviews, Dawn found Khan "superbly convincing" and called him the film's "only redeeming factor".

That year, he starred with Sanam Baloch in Haissam Hussain's period TV series Dastaan.

Khan played a lead role in the Pakistani television serial Humsafar (2011), and appeared in Sultana Siddiqui's family drama Zindagi Gulzar Hai (2012).

For both performances, he received the Lux Style Award for Best Actor.

Haissam Hussain's comedy Akbari Asghari, a modern adaptation of Mirat-ul-Uroos, was Khan's first television series in 2011; he played Asghar, an unambitious villager who wants to marry one of his cousins.

Khan made his Bollywood debut with the romantic comedy, Khoobsurat (2014), for which he received the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.

He further received critical praise for starring in the family drama Kapoor & Sons (2016), which earned him a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Following a brief hiatus, he made a comeback with his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Ms. Marvel (2022) as Hassan, Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel's great-grandfather.

His action adventure film The Legend of Maula Jatt (2022) became Pakistan's highest-grossing film of all time.