Salman Yusuff Khan (born 12 June 1985) is an Indian dancer, actor, choreographer and
television judge. He participated in and emerged as winner of ''
Dance India Dance 1''. He also participated in ''
Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 5'' and ''
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 9.''
Career
Khan, born Mohammad Ghause, started his career with the dance reality show ''
Dance India Dance
''Dance India Dance'' (also called by the acronym ''DID''; tagline: ''Dance Ka Asli ID D.I.D.'') is an Indian Hindi-language dance competition reality television series that airs on Zee TV, created and produced by Essel Vision Productions. I ...
'' in its
first season. After winning the show, Khan appeared in the title song of ''
Wanted''. He then did the music video "Dance Of Death" for the movie ''
Rakta Charitra
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'' and in the video ''Alive'' (2011). He appeared in the film ''Sukoon - Vaishali Made''.
In 2013, he debuted as an actor in the
3D dance-based film ''
ABCD: Anybody Can Dance'', which was released on 8 February 2013, directed by
Remo D'Souza
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co-starring
Prabhu Deva
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,
Dharmesh Yelande
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Career
Yelande participated in '' Dance India Dance'' (2009–2010), '' Dance India Dance Li'l Masters'' (2010) and ' ...
,
Lauren Gottlieb
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and
Punit Pathak
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In 2019, he participated in Colors TV's reality and stunt series '' Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 9'' and emerged as the winner.
Early life
Punit Jaye ...
.
He later participated in ''
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
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'' first as a choreographer opposite
Yana Gupta
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Gupta was born as Jana Synková in 1979 in Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Socialist Republic, Czech SR, Czechoslovak S ...
(Season 4),
Isha Sharvani
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Early life
Isha was born in Gujar ...
(Season 5) and became the winner with
Drashti Dhami
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(Season 6) in 2013. In 2014, he was a participant of ''
Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 5''. He was also choreographer in ''
Creature 3D
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'', ''
Zid''. Salman was a judge in the dance reality show Dance Dance Juniors.
In 2018, he starred in the Tamil dance film ''
Lakshmi
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'', which was released on 24 August 2018, directed by
A. L. Vijay co-starring
Prabhu Deva
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,
Ditya Bhande, and
Aishwarya Rajesh
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. Later, he is the judge of dance reality show HIGH FEVER, and he also was a Choreographer in ''
Welcome to New York''.
In 2020, he appeared in the dance film ''
Street Dancer 3D
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'' which was released on 24 January 2020, directed by
Remo D'Souza
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co-starring
Varun Dhawan
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,
Shraddha Kapoor
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,
Prabhu Deva
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,
Raghav Juyal, and
Nora Fatehi
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.
In 2023, he started in a promotional short film for
Apple Inc.
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, titled ''Fursat'', directed by
Vishal Bhardwaj
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Bhardwaj made his debut as a mu ...
on an
iPhone 14 Pro
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.
Personal life
Khan married his longtime girlfriend, an air hostess, Faiza Haramain, in 2013.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
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Indian male dancers
Living people
1985 births
Male actors from Bengaluru
Indian male film actors
Male actors in Hindi cinema
Participants in Indian reality television series
Contestants on Indian game shows