Ayub Khan-Din

Ayub Khan-Din is one of the praiseworthy personalities who has given plenty of commendable works to the Film Industry. He is a talented British Pakistani actor and playwright with a remarkable record of albums. He got widely recognized for Sammy, and Rosie Get Laid, Rafta, Rafta, And West Is West.

He was born on 11 July 1961 in Salford, England, to a Pakistani father and English mother. He was raised mainly in the former country by his parents only. He completed his schooling at one of the nearby prestigious schools and later went to a University for higher studies. Hence, he attended Salford College of Technology to study drama and completed his graduation in 1982. Afterward, he studied acting at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London, and finished in 1984. After that, de decided to follow his passion and entered the film industry to pursue acting. He began his journey through theatres and attracted a large audience through that. Also, he started writing plays in the mid-1990s. Tamasha Theatre Company, co-production with the Royal Court and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, produced his first show was East is East (1996). The play received enormous fame and love from the audiences and got nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Comedy. Khan won both a British Independent Film Award and a London Critics' Circle Film Award for his screenplay in the film version of the play and also got nominated for two BAFTA Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer, European Film Award for Best European Screenwriter.

This play provided him with tremendous popularity from viewers all around the world. Also, it helped him in establishing his name across the nation. In 2000, the film won Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. His next play named Rafta, Rafta was released in 2007, directed by Nicholas Hytner Sir Nicholas Hytner is an English theatre director >> Read More... . This play was another massive success as it attained colossal love from the viewers worldwide. In addition, it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2008. Also, it went on to debut in New York Off-Broadway at the Theatre Row New Group Theatre in May 2008. And it has since then debuted at numerous places. He has contributed towards various workpieces in this Industry and has made a name for himself.