Kay Kay Menon

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Kay Kay Menon
Born
Krishna Kumar Menon

(1966-10-02) 2 October 1966 (age 58)
Kozhikode, Kerala, India
Education University of Pune
Occupation Actor
Years active1995–present
Spouse Nivedita Bhattacharya

Krishna Kumar "Kay Kay" Menon (b. 2 October 1966 [1] ) is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Hindi cinema, and few in Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu. He is best known for his roles in films such as Black Friday (2004), Deewar (2004), Sarkar (2005), Shaurya (2008), Gulaal (2009), Haider (2014), Baby (2015). He has starred in web series such as Special Ops , Farzi , The Railway Men and Citadel: Honey Bunny .

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Early life

Menon was born into a Malayali family in Kozhikode, Kerala and raised in Ambarnath and Pune, Maharashtra, India. [1] He studied at the St. Joseph High School in Khadki, Pune. [2] He passed his 10th grade in 1981. He did his Bachelors (Physics) from Mumbai University [1] and his MBA from Department of Management Sciences (PUMBA) at the University of Pune, [1] graduating in 1988 with a major in Marketing. Menon's initial focus was working in the advertising industry, [1] including Kinetic Honda and Marlboro cigarette advertisements in India.

Career

He started his career in theatre productions where he met Nivedita Bhattacharya, whom he married. His first theatre break was opposite Naseeruddin Shah in Feroz Abbas Khan's Mahatma vs Gandhi. [3]

In the early years of his career, Menon worked on television, with roles in the TV movies Zebra 2 and Last Train To Mahakali . He also appeared in Telefilms of Zee TV Rishtey (Ward no. 6) and Saturday Suspense episodes. He was praised for his role as a young Prime Minister in the Zee TV series Pradhan Mantri (2001), directed by Ketan Mehta. In The Hindu , Sevanti Ninan wrote, "an actor to watch: Kay Kay Menon ... this unusually tall actor who plays the pradhan mantri is a major saving grace" [4] while in The Tribune , Amita Malik commented, "excellent acting by Menon, who skilfully conveys the physical as well as mental image of the honest politician". [5]

Menon made his big screen debut with a small role in Naseem (1995), followed in 1999 by the lead role in Bhopal Express , [3] a movie that went mostly unnoticed. This was the first in a series of initial setbacks in Menon's film career. In the early 2000s, he starred as a wicked rock musician in Anurag Kashyap's debut movie, Paanch , which struggled with censorship and has remained unreleased. [6] [7] Two other movies, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi and Black Friday , had to wait many years for a release date. Meanwhile, his commercial films Deewar (starring Amitabh Bachchan) and Silsiilay (with Shahrukh Khan) flopped at the box office. It was only in 2005, with the eventual release of the critically acclaimed Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, but with Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar , Menon had his break. [6] Sarkar earned him a nomination for the Best Performance in a Negative Role at the Filmfare Awards.[ citation needed ] In The Tribune , Saibal Chatterjee called him "one of Bollywood's finest actors". [6]

In 2007, he acted in Life in a... Metro , Enemmy (2013), and Rahasya (2015), as an adulterous husband. In 2008, he appeared in Shaurya [8] [9] based on A Few Good Men . His portrayal of a ruthless army brigadier is still talked of among cinema lovers. [10] [11] In 2009, he starred in The Stoneman Murders where he played a police officer on the hunt for the Stoneman serial killer. [12] He played the role of Dukki Bana in Gulaal.

His role as Khurram Mir in 2014's Haider bagged him a Filmfare and IIFA award for Best Supporting Actor. He played a very crucial role in The Ghazi Attack as a Naval Captain based on an Indian Naval submarine, S21, intercepts a Pakistani submarine, PNS Ghazi, during routine surveillance and thwarts its mission of destroying INS Vikrant in 1971. He played a role as Vikram Singh in 2019's Penalty with co-actor Mohit Nain.

He impressed and gained more popularity with a role as Himmat Singh in 2020's Special Ops - a web series for Hotstar. In 2021, he again played the young version of Himmat Singh (R&AW leading officer) in Special Ops 1.5, the prequel part of Special Ops.

Filmography

Filmography

YearFilmRoleNotes
1995 Naseem Islamic fundamentalistDebut film [3]
1999 Bhopal Express Verma
2002ChhalKaran Menon
2003 Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi Siddharth TyabjiReleased in theaters in 2005 [13]
2004 Black Friday DCP Rakesh Maria Released in theaters in 2007 [14]
Deewaar Sohail Miyaan
Silsiilay Anwar Ahmed Bhoy
2005 Sarkar Vishnu NagareNominated—Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role
Dansh Mathew
Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh Akash
Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena Kaif
2006 Corporate Ritesh SahaniNominated—GIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor
ShoonyaMahendra Naik
2007 Strangers Sanjeev Rai
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. Partho Sen
Life in a... Metro Ranjit KapoorNominated—IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role
Go Nagesh Rao
2008 Sarkar Raj Vishnu Nagare
Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam Haldi Hasan
Mumbai Meri Jaan Suresh
Via Darjeeling Ankur Sharma
Shaurya Brigadier Rudra Pratap Singh
Sirf Gaurav
Drona Riz Razaida
2009 The Stoneman Murders Sanjay Shelar
Gulaal Dukey Bana
Aage se right Janubhai/Baima Rashidul Kairi
Sankat City Guru
2010 Tera Kya Hoga Johnny Inspector Shashikant Chiple
Lafangey Parindey AnnaCameo
Benny And Babloo Benny
2011 Bheja Fry 2 Ajit Talwar
Bhindi Bazaar Shroff
2012 Chaalis Chouraasi Albert Pinto
Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi Salman
Shahid War saab
2013Enemmy: CID Officer Naeem Shaikh
ABCD: Any Body Can Dance Jehangir Khan
Udhayam NH4 ACP Manoj Menon IPS Tamil film
Ankur Arora Murder Case Dr. Viren Asthana
2014 Raja Natwarlal Vardha Yadav
Haider Khurram MeerWon—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor [15]

Won—IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role

Nominated—BIG Star Entertainment Awards for Most Entertaining Actor in a Thriller Film – Male

Nominated—IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated—Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated—Screen Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role

Nominated—Producers Guild Film Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role

Nominated—Stardust Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role

2015 Baby Bilal Khan
Rahasya CBI Officer Sunil Paraskar
Bombay Velvet Investigative Officer Vishwas Kulkarni
Singh Is Bliing Mark
2016 A Flying Jatt Mr. Rakesh Malhotra
Saat Uchakkey Tejpal
2017 The Ghazi Attack Captain Ranvijay Singh Telugu and Hindi
2018DhaadGhelo Gujarati; [16] released 17 years after being shot
Vodka Diaries ACP Ashwini Dixit
Baa Baaa Black Sheep ACP Shivraj Naik


The Dark Side of Life: Mumbai City

Sumit Balsaria
Phamous Kadak Singh
Ek SangaychayMarathi film
2019 Penalty Vikram SinghNetflix film
2021 Shaadisthan Tiger Ji/RajajiDisney+ Hotstar
2023 Love All Siddharth Sharma [17]
2025 Metro... In Dino

Television

YearShowEpisodesRole
1995-1996DarrInspector Avinash
1999 Star Bestsellers - Zebra 2Captain Rajeev
1999 Star Bestsellers - Last Train to Mahakali Sir
1997-99Saturday Suspense12(Woh Kaun Thi?),

16(The Assassin),

18(On the Run),

42(Breaking News),

68(Friends),

104(Beyond Truth)

Inspector Vaali

James Mathew

Aakash(Serial Killer)


Amar Rathore

Krishna Pandit

COP Ankush

2000 Rishtey - Ward No. 6111Doctor Rajat
2001 Pradhan Mantri PM Anirudh Prakash
2005 Time Bomb 9/11 Prime Minister of India
2014 Yudh Municipal Commissioner

Streaming series

YearTitleRolePlatformNotes
2018 The Great Indian Dysfunctional Family Vikram Ranaut ALTBalaji
2020 Special OPS Himmat Singh Disney Plus Hotstar
2021 Ray Inderashish [18] Netflix
Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story Himmat Singh Disney Plus Hotstar
2023 Farzi Mansoor Dalal Amazon Prime Video
Bambai Meri Jaan Ismail Kadri
The Railway Men Iftekaar Siddiqui Netflix
2024 Shekhar Home Shekhar Home JioCinema [19]
Murshid Murshid Pathan ZEE5 [20]
Citadel: Honey Bunny Guru Amazon Prime Video

Short film(s)

YearTitle
2019Sparsh
2019The Last Chapter

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