Jiah Khan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jiah Khan

British Indian actress

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1988

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 03-Jun-2013

Profession: actor, singer, model

Nationality: United States, India

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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About Jiah Khan

  • Jiah Khan (born Nafisa Rizvi Khan, 20 February 1988 – 3 June 2013) was a British-American actress and singer who worked in the Indian Film industry.
  • She appeared in three Hindi films from 2007 to 2010.Born in New York City and raised in London, she was the niece of Pakistani actresses Sangeeta and Kaveeta.
  • Khan always aspired to pursue a career in acting and moved to Mumbai for a film career.
  • She made her film debut in the 2007 Ram Gopal Verma film Nishabd for which she was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
  • She was later noted for portraying a modern, independent woman in Ghajini which was the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2008.
  • Her performance in the latter earned her significant acclaim.
  • Her final film appearance was in Sajid Khan's romantic comedy Housefull, which was the fifth highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2010.
  • Khan had catapulted herself into the Bollywood 100 Crore Club with Ghajini and Housefull.On 3 June 2013, she was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her bedroom of her family's residence at the Sagar Sangeet building in Juhu, Mumbai.
  • Deemed a suicide in 2013, and re-confirmed as a suicide in 2016 following an extensive investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and a hearing at the Bombay High Court, Khan's mother continued to claim that Khan had been murdered by her boyfriend, actor Sooraj Pancholi, leading the prosecution to make a failed attempt to lay charges of murder and sexual assault in 2017.
  • On 31 Jan 2018, nearly five years after her death, a court in Mumbai charged Pancholi with abetting Khan's suicide.
  • The case has not yet been settled.

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