Nadia Khan

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Nadia Khan
نادیہ خان
Born22 May 1972 (1972-05-22) (age 51)
Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan
Occupation(s)Actress, TV presenter, anchor, producer
Years active1993–present
Spouse
Faisal Mumtaz Rao
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(m. 2020)​
Children3

Nadia Khan (born 22 May 1972) is a Pakistani television actress, presenter and producer. She is best known for the Nadia Khan Show , a morning TV programme, and for OutStyle, her YouTube channel. [1] [2] [3]

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She is known for her role in the PTV series Bandhan. She has received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Kinza in Aisi Hai Tanhai . In 2019, she portrayed Aima in Kam Zarf and Dolly in Dolly Darling . [4]

Early life

Nadia Khan was born in Quetta, Balochistan. [1] [5] She belongs to an ethnic Niazi Pathan family from Jalandhar (India), which moved to Rawalpindi, Punjab after independence. Khan began her career in Rawalpindi. [5] [6]

Career

Actress

Khan made her acting debut in 1995 on the show Pal Do Pal. [1] [7] She appeared in Bandhan (1996), [1] [8] for which she won the PTV Best Actress Award. In the same year, she played a leading role in the drama serial Bharam. She later started anchoring morning shows. [9]

Presenter

Khan made her television debut in 1993 in the show Daak Time (Mail Time) with Uncle Sargam on PTV. She returned as an anchor on ARY Digital's morning show Breakfast with Nadia. The show began airing in 2003 from Dubai. In November 2006, Khan moved to Geo TV to a new live chat and interview show called the Nadia Khan Show (Geo Mazay Say). She interviewed a variety of Pakistani celebrities, artists, performers, religious leaders, athletes and politicians. There were also segments on Islam, and health and beauty. The show was banned in 2010 by the Dubai government. Sources say that Khan showed actress Noor Bukhari and her husband fight before Bukhari's interview. Her husband claimed in court that "our family matter", so the court banned Khan's show in Dubai for six months.

Khan won the Masala Lifestyle Awards For Best TV Presenter 2008 and Masala Lifestyle Awards For Best TV Presenter 2009, out of five candidates, from Zee Tv, Sony TV, Star Plus and ARY Digital. [10]

Khan resumed her anchoring career after a year in August 2011 with Eid Transmission on Dunya News. On 31 March 2012, the Nadia Khan Show returned to Geo TV as a night-time, consumer-oriented talk show.. [11] She resumed anchoring with a brief year-long run from 2015 to 2016 of her morning show (Nadia Khan Show) on Geo TV. [12] She hosted Croron Mein Khel , a game show, on BOL Entertainment.

In January 2018, Khan became the first Pakistani beauty, fashion and lifestyle YouTube influencer to reach 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, Outstyle. [13] [14]

In 2019, she started a morning show again on PTV named Morning @ home. [15]

Personal life

Nadia married Faisal Mumtaz Rao, a retired Pakistan Air Force fighter pilot, in December 2020. This is her second marriage and Rao’s third. [16] [17] Her first marriage was to Khawar Iqbal, [18] with whom she has a two children. [19]

She is such a kind hearted person that inspite of having her two biological kids, she adopted 3rd one KAYAAN when he was just few days old

She describes herself as "realist feminist" and she is constantly travelling from Dubai to Pakistan. [2] [20]

Filmography

Television

YearDramaRoleWriterDirectorBroadcasting networkNotes
1995Pal do PalRameen Haseena Moin Mohsin PTV
1996BaandhanFarry Bushra Rahman Tariq MairajPTVPTV Best Actress Award
1997BharamMazhar BobbyM.Izhar BobbyPTVPTV Classic Drama Award
1997MahrukhMahrukhAftab AhmedArshi BhaiPTV
1999Des PardesSara Haseena Moin Ali RizviPTV
1998 Laag Safia Rauf Khalid Rauf KhalidPTV
2000ManzileinGhazalSeema GhazalFahim BurnyPTV
2005Koi To Ho [1] YasmeenDanish JavedHaseeb HassanARY Digital
2008Main Aur TumRadhaAljaz Imran Faisal Qureshi ARY Digital Episode Sitaara Plus
2008 Yeh Zindagi Hai HerselfFizza JaffriKamran Akbar Khan Geo TV Guest appearance
2017 Aisi Hai Tanhai [2] Kinza Mohsin Ali Badar Mehmood ARY Digital [21]
2018 Zun Mureed [2] Amna Mufti Syed Ahmed Kamran Hum TV [22]
2018 Kaisi Aurat Hoon Main [2] Maham Saima Akram Chudhery Fahim BurneyHum TV [23]
2018 Khana Khud Garam Karo JamilaKashif SaleemKashif SaleemARY DigitalTelefilm [24]
2019 Kam Zarf AimaSeema MunafZeeshan AhmedGeo Entertainment [25]
2019Jhanka TankiNeeliMisbah Ali SyedKashif SaleemARY DigitalTelefilm
2019 Dolly Darling Dolly Dr. Muhammad Younis Butt Muhammad Iftikhar IffiGeo Entertainment
2022 Pehchaan SafinaRubina Kabira KhanAsad JabalHum TV
Wehshi MuneeraShumaila ZaidiIqbal Hussain

Talk shows

YearShowTypeBroadcasting networkNotes
1993–1995Daak Time (Mail Time) with Uncle Sargam [5] Children ChoiceSTN/NTMKhan's hosting debut
2003–2006Breakfast with Nadia [5] Morning show ARY Digital
2006–2010 Nadia Khan Show [1] Morning show Geo TV Masala TV Award For Best TV Presenter 2008 [10] and Masala TV Award For Best TV Presenter 2009 [26]
2011Eid with Nadia Khan [5] Eid special show Dunya News
2012–2013[[Nadia Khan Show [5] |The Nadia Khan Show (season 2)]]Talk show (weekend nights)Geo Entertainment
2015 Nadia Khan Show (season 3)Morning showGeo Entertainment
2018 Croron Mein Khel Game Show BOL Entertainment
2019–2020Morning @ HomeMorning TalkshowPTV Home

Awards and recognition

In 2007, Khan was dubbed the "Oprah Winfrey" of Pakistan by Jang Group of Newspapers. [1] [5]

PTV awards

Winner

Masala Lifestyle awards

Winner

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