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Farhan Khan (actor)

Indian model and actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ16222243 ↗
Source-derived summary

Farhan Khan is an Indian model and television actor. He is mostly known for his brief role in Sony TV's Chhanchhan.

Overview

Farhan Khan was born in Burhanpur. He comes from a family of people with a film, TV and stage background. His grandfather was a distributor and film publicist and his father is a theatre artiste, a film and TV producer and a documentary filmmaker. His uncle is an established producer and also makes documentaries edits of education, and his brother Tabrez Khan is a director of TV shows like Bhagyavidhaata among others. His older brother and mother are both writers.

Career

Khan's first television role was the male lead in Sony Entertainment Television's show, Chhanchhan it failed to gain ratings.' Chhanchhan ended on 19 September 2013.

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“Farhan Khan (actor)” enters the record as indian model and actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Farhan, Khan and actor can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-05-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Farhan, Khan and actor.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16222243. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Farhan Khan (actor)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.