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My Take
Khatter arrived with a famous half-brother in Shahid Kapoor, but what interests me is how little he leaned on it. Winning the Filmfare Best Male Debut for a drug-dealer role in Majid Majidi's Beyond the Clouds is telling—an Iranian auteur of that stature doesn't hand a lead to a coaster. I like performers who choose difficulty early, and a 1995-born actor stepping into that kind of austere, demanding cinema signals real ambition. The open question for me is whether he resists the easy lane of charming-leading-man roles and keeps chasing parts that stretch him. I'm rooting for the harder path.
Overview
Ishaan Khatter (born 1 November 1995) is an Indian actor. The son of actors Rajesh Khattar and Neelima Azeem, he made his first screen appearance as a child in the 2005 film Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!, which starred his half-brother Shahid Kapoor. Khatter had his first leading role in Majid Majidi's drama Beyond the Clouds (2017), in which his performance as a drug dealer won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ishaan Khatter
- Name (Japanese)
- イシャーン・カッター
- Reading
- いしゃーん・かったー
- Born
- November 1, 1995 (age 30)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Boar
- Origin
- Mumbai, Bombay State, India
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2019 Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ishaankhatter/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishaan%20Khatter
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.