Originating from Kabul and brought up in Mumbai’s Kamathipura, Khan earned an engineering degree from Ismail Yusuf College and taught civil engineering at M. H. Saboo Siddik College before turning to the film world in the early 1970s, later adding a master’s in Arabic literature from Osmania University. He entered cinema with a supporting role as a lawyer in Daag (1973) and quickly became a prolif…
