Nawab Shah
Quick Facts
Biography
Nawab Shah is an Indian film actor, who works in the Hindi film industry. Before entering into films, he played character roles in television serials.
Career
Shah debuted in 2000 with director Rajeev Kumar's Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya. The film had Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala in the leads. Shah's performance went unnoticed.
His next film Be-Lagaam failed at the box office. Ujjal Chattopadhyay's Escape from Taliban was the first film which had given Shah a chance to "prove his talent". The story was more focused on Manisha Koirala, but Shah's performance was praised. It was a box office failure.
Parwana, Woh, and Dukaan met with the same fate. Shah's wait for recognition was prolonged. His performances in Farhan Akhtar's Lakshya and Saurabh Shukla's Chehraa fetched some praise, but he was not getting pivotal roles.
In 2011, Nawab Shah was signed to play a villain in Salman Khan's Bodyguard. He, however, had an accident and was unable to continue with the film. Later that year, he played another negative role as Jabbar, in Don 2, which starred Shahrukh Khan in the lead. His performance was praised, and the film became a high commercial success. Shah later appeared in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag as a Pakistani athletics coach. He recently played a role in Dilwale, as Raghav, one of Dev Malik's henchmen.
Personal life
As of 2019, Shah is married to actress Pooja Batra. He was in relationship with Kavita Kaushik for 5 years before duo parted their ways in 2016. Some said it was because of their religion and Kavita's family was not comfortable with Nawab being Muslim marrying her but Nawab rebutted these speculations and he gave the actual reason for their breakup. In an interview he said, " I don’t understand why people are making a fuss about our religious backgrounds. I want to clear this once and for all... Kavita and I broke up because we had major differences for a long time. We are strong-headed individuals and in this day and age, religion cannot be a barrier in love, especially in a city like Mumbai, where people work and live together, regardless of caste or creed. Kavita and I did try to make our five-year relationship work, but we couldn’t. We have gone our separate ways and I have nothing to do with Kavita anymore." .
Filmography
- Hindi
- Kartoos (1999)
(Sarforash) .(1999)
- Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya (2000)
- Escape From Taliban (2003)
- Musafir (2004)
- Lakshya (2004)
- Jaan-E-Mann (2006)
- Luck (2009)
- Don 2 (2011)
- Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)
- Humshakals (2014)
- Dilwale (2015)
- Tiger Zinda Hai (2017)
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Devi Putrudu (2001)
- Dictator (2016)
- Malayalam
- Keerthi Chakra (2006)
- Kaakki (2007)
- Roudram (2008)
- Black Dalia (2009)
- Rajadhi Raja (2014)
- Inspector Garud(2007)
- Kannada
- Kotigobba 3 (2018)
- Television series
- Shaktimaan(1997-2005) as Mayor JJ (Jai Kumar Janardhan)/Kakodar
- Indian (2000-2001) as Indian
- Saarrthi (2004-2008) as Mansen Goenka
- Amma (2016) as Haider
- Naagarjuna – Ek Yoddha (2016-2017) as S. P. Baldev Singh
- Web series
- Sacred Games (2018) as Salim Kaka