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Farah Khan
Farah Khan at the 4PS Advertising & Marketing Award
Born	Farah Khan 9 January 1965^[1] India
Occupation	Choreographer, Film director
Spouse(s)	Shirish Kunder (2004-present)

Farah Khan Kunder (born 9 January 1965) is an Indian film director and choreographer. She is known for her choreographical work in numerous Bollywood films, as well as directing the films Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om. Khan has choreographed dance routines for more than a hundred songs in over 80 Hindi films.^[2]

1 Family and life
2 Rise to fame
3 Other projects
4 Awards
5 Movies Choreographed
6 See also
7 External links
8 References

Family and life

Khan's mother Menaka is the sister of screenwriter Honey Irani (whose children with ex-husband, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar - film personalities Farhan and Zoya Akhtar - are her cousins) and ex-child actor Daisy Irani. Her father is Sanjay Khan. She has one brother, comedian, actor and film director Sajid Khan. She first choreographed the film Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander, which was an Aamir Khan starrer. This was followed by many more songs which became national hits. She met actor Shahrukh Khan on the set of Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa and the two have since become good friends^[3].

Farah Khan married Shirish Kunder, the editor of Main Hoon Na,^[4] on 9 December 2004. She choreographed her husband's directorial debut Jaaneman and Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. In addition Khan has worked on international projects such as Marigold: An Adventure in India, and Monsoon Wedding.

Khan gave birth to triplets on 11 February 2008. She has one son, Czar, and two daughters, Diva and Anya.^[5] Farah and her husband opted to bank the umbilical cord blood stem cells of their children (done at Cryostemcell, India) ^[6].

Rise to fame

Farah Khan achieved international recognition with her work in Monsoon Wedding, Bombay Dreams and Vanity Fair. She was nominated for a 2004 Tony Award as Best Choreographer, along with collaborator Anthony van Laast, for Bombay Dreams.

Farah Khan then went on to direct her first film Main Hoon Na which was produced by Shah Rukh Khan. The film was a huge success, and Khan became the second female director to be nominated for Filmfare Best Director Award. She has won the Filmfare Best Choreography Award five times in 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2004. Farah's last choreographed songs are Love Mera Hit Hit & Marjaani from Movie "Billu". As a director her last movie was, Om Shanti Om, was the highest grossing Hindi film of all time at its time of release.^[7] Tees Maar Khan, with Akshay Kumar in the lead is her next directorial venture.

Other projects

Khan trained Colombian pop star Shakira for a Bollywood version of her hit Hips Don't Lie for the MTV Video Music Awards on 31 August 2006, which was hosted in Radio City Music Hall.^[8] On the second season of American reality TV show America's Got Talent, contestant Kashif Memon^[9] copied Khan's moves from Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham in what he termed the "Bollywood Dance".