Early life[edit]

Feroz Khan was born on 25 September 1939 in Bangalore, India, to an Afghan

immigrant.[8][9][10] His father belonged to Tanoli people from Ghazni province
of Afghanistan[11] while his mother was of Iranian ancestry.[9]
Khan was educated at Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore and St. Germain High
School, Bangalore. His brothers are Shah Abbas Khan, Shahrukh Shah Ali Khan,
Semir Khan and Akbar Khan. He is Tanoli by caste. His sisters are Khurshid
Shahnavar and Dilshad Begum Sheikh, popularly known as Dilshad Bibi. After his
schooling in Bangalore, he traveled to Bombay (present-day Mumbai) where he made
his debut as second lead in Didi in 1960.[citation needed]

Career[edit]
Through the early 1960s and 1970s, he made low-budget thrillers opposite starlets. In
1962, he appeared in an English-language film titled Tarzan Goes to
India opposite Simi Garewal. His first big hit was in 1965, with Phani
Majumdar's Oonche Log (1965), where he was pitted against screen idols Raaj
Kumar and Ashok Kumar; he gave a notable sensitive performance. It was followed
by more small budget hit films like Samson, Ek Sapera Ek Lootera and Char Darvesh.
[12][13]
 Again, in the same year, he played a sacrificing lover in the mushy musical Arzoo,
starring Sadhana. With this, Khan started to receive A-list second leads. With the
film Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969), Khan won his first Filmfare award for Best Actor in a
Supporting Role. His other hit films were Khotey Sikkay, Geeta Mera Naam, Pyasi
Sham, Shankar Shambhu and Safar. He appeared alongside his real-life
brother Sanjay Khan in the hit films Upaasna (1967), Mela (1971) and Nagin (1976).
He became a successful producer and director in 1971 so as to improve his career
opportunities as a leading man with his first directorial film Apradh, which was the first
Indian movie showing auto racing in Germany; Mumtaaz was his co-star. He
produced, directed and starred in the 1975 film Dharmatma, which was the first Indian
film to be shot in Afghanistan and was also his first blockbuster hit as producer,
director and star and marked the appearance of actress Hema Malini in a glamorous
avatar.[14] This movie was inspired by the Hollywood film The Godfather.
Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, he was a leading Bollywood star, directing and
starring in many of his films. He also starred in the Punjabi film Bhagat Dhanna
Jat (1974). The 1980 film Qurbani, with Zeenat Aman, was the biggest hit of his
career and launched the singing career of iconic Pakistani pop singer Nazia Hassan,
with her memorable track "Aap Jaisa Koi".[13] In 1986, he directed and starred
in Janbaaz, a box office hit,[15] which some consider to be one of his best movies,
featured an all-star cast and possessed great songs and excellent cinematography. In
1988, he directed and starred in Dayavan, which was a remake of an Indian Tamil film
titled Nayakan. After directing and starring in Yalgaar (1992), he took a long break
from acting for 11 years.
He launched his son Fardeen Khan's career with the 1998 film Prem Aggan, which,
however, was a box office bomb. In 2003, he made his acting comeback as well as
produced and directed Janasheen, which also starred his son Fardeen. He always
used performing animals in his films — a chimpanzee and lion were used
in Janasheen — but People for Animals (PFA) Haryana [1] chairman Naresh Kadyan
filed a complaint in the court of law at Faridabad for animal cruelty and legal action as
per law against the producer, director and actor.
He starred alongside his son again in Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena (2005) and made his
last film appearance in Welcome (2007).
In May 2006, Feroz Khan was blacklisted by then Pakistan President Pervez
Musharraf when he went there to promote his brother's film, Taj Mahal. In an
intelligence report submitted to Musharraf, he was said to have gotten drunk and
insulted Pakistani singer and anchor Fakhr-e-Alam and to have criticised the country,
saying:
I am a proud Indian. India is a secular country. The Muslims there are making lot of
progress unlike in Pakistan. Our President is a Muslim and our Prime Minister a Sikh.
Pakistan was made in the name of Islam, but look how the Muslims are killing
Muslims here.