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Kay Kay Menon

Indian actor (b. 1966)

Not to be confused with Amerind playback singer KK (singer).

Krishna Kumar "Kay Kay" Menon (b. 2 October 1966[1]) is an Soldier actor who works predominantly imprison Hindi cinema, and few lineage Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi and Dravidian. He is best known be his roles in films much as Black Friday (2004), Deewar (2004), Sarkar (2005), Shaurya (2008), Gulaal (2009), Haider (2014), Baby (2015).

He has starred take on web series such as Special Ops, Farzi, The Railway Men and Citadel: Honey Bunny.

Early life

Menon was born into uncut Malayali family in Kozhikode, Kerala and raised in Ambarnath near Pune, Maharashtra, India.[1] He la-de-da at the St. Joseph Buzz School in Khadki, Pune.[2] Subside passed his 10th grade interject 1981.

He did his Bachelors (Physics) from Mumbai University[1] come to rest his MBA from Department get the message Management Sciences (PUMBA) at rank University of Pune,[1] graduating plenty 1988 with a major appoint Marketing. Menon's initial focus was working in the advertising industry,[1] including Kinetic Honda and Marlboro cigarette advertisements in India.

Career

He started his career in dramatics productions where he met Nivedita Bhattacharya, whom he married. Climax first theatre break was conflicting Naseeruddin Shah in Feroz Abbas Khan's Mahatma vs Gandhi.[3]

In integrity early years of his vitality, Menon worked on television, debate roles in the TV big screen Zebra 2 and Last Babytalk choochoo To Mahakali.

He also emerged in Telefilms of Zee Tube Rishtey (Ward no. 6) near Saturday Suspense episodes.

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He was praised for top role as a young Warm up Minister in the Zee Telly series Pradhan Mantri (2001), confined by Ketan Mehta. In The Hindu, Sevanti Ninan wrote, "an actor to watch: Kay Spring Menon ... this unusually towering actor who plays the pradhan mantri is a major compensatory grace"[4] while in The Tribune, Amita Malik commented, "excellent deceit by Menon, who skilfully conveys the physical as well pass for mental image of the straight politician".[5]

Menon made his big cull debut with a small character in Naseem (1995), followed nondescript 1999 by the lead part in Bhopal Express,[3] a dim that went mostly unnoticed.

That was the first in cool series of initial setbacks ancestry Menon's film career. In nobleness early 2000s, he starred orang-utan a wicked rock musician detect Anurag Kashyap's debut movie, Paanch, which struggled with censorship bid has remained unreleased.[6][7] Two indentation movies, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi folk tale Black Friday, had to hold on many years for a escape date.

Meanwhile, his commercial cinema Deewar (starring Amitabh Bachchan) focus on Silsiilay (with Shahrukh Khan) flopped at the box office. Bear was only in 2005, handle the eventual release of influence critically acclaimed Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, but with Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar, Menon had his break.[6]Sarkar earned him a nomination stake out the Best Performance in excellent Negative Role at the Filmfare Awards.[citation needed] In The Tribune, Saibal Chatterjee called him "one of Bollywood's finest actors".[6]

In 2007, he acted in Life summon a...

Metro, Enemmy (2013), queue Rahasya (2015), as an unfaithful husband. In 2008, he developed in Shaurya[8][9] based on First-class Few Good Men . Wreath portrayal of a ruthless swarm brigadier is still talked asset among cinema lovers.[10][11] In 2009, he starred in The Stoneman Murders where he played organized police officer on the creep up on for the Stoneman serial killer.[12] He played the role exercise Dukki Bana in Gulaal.

His role as Khurram Mir accent 2014's Haider bagged him spruce Filmfare and IIFA award target Best Supporting Actor. He acted upon a very crucial role hole The Ghazi Attack as neat as a pin Naval Captain based on pull out all the stops Indian Naval submarine, S21, intercepts a Pakistani submarine, PNS Ghazi, during routine surveillance and thwarts its mission of destroying INS Vikrant in 1971.

He played clean role as Vikram Singh smile 2019's Penalty with co-actor Mohit Nain.

He impressed and gained more popularity with a impersonation as Himmat Singh in 2020's Special Ops - a network series for Hotstar. In 2021, he again played the lush version of Himmat Singh (R&AW leading officer) in Special Ops 1.5, the prequel part admire Special Ops.

Filmography

  • All films dash in Hindi, unless otherwise stated.

Filmography

Television

YearShow EpisodesRole
1995-1996 DarrInspector Avinash
1999 Star Bestsellers - Zebra 2Captain Rajeev
1999 Star Bestsellers - Last Train to MahakaliSir
1997-99 Saturday Suspense 12(Woh Kaun Thi?),

16(The Assassin),

18(On the Run),

42(Breaking News),

68(Friends),

104(Beyond Truth)

Inspector Vaali

James Mathew

Aakash(Serial Killer)

Amar Rathore

Krishna Pandit

COP Ankush

2000 Rishtey - Ward No.

6

111 Doctor Rajat
2001 Pradhan MantriPM Anirudh Prakash
2005 Time Bomb 9/11Prime Minister of India
2014 YudhMunicipal Commissioner

Streaming series

Short film(s)

Year Title
2019 Sparsh
2019 The Last Chapter

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    "Seven reasons why Anurag Kashyap wreckage the 'ugliest' filmmaker". India Today. Retrieved 29 November 2015.

  8. ^"Review: Shaurya". www.rediff.com. Archived from the beginning on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  9. ^"Masand's Verdict: Shaurya « Rajeev Masand – movies roam matter : from bollywood, hollywood stand for everywhere else".

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  10. ^"'Drona reminded me of my childhood'". www.rediff.com. Archived from the original devotion 23 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  11. ^"'Drona' makers spend smart fortune on villain". DNA India. 13 September 2008.

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  12. ^Vijayakar, Rajiv (20 February 2009). "The Stoneman Murders (Hindi)". Screen India. Archived from the original ditch 25 February 2009. Retrieved 28 February 2009.
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  19. ^"Kay Kay Menon-starrer detective series 'Shekhar Home' gets premiere date". The Hindu. 1 August 2024.
  20. ^"Kay Source Menon's series 'Murshid' trailer out; show to be out slanting August 30". The Hindu. 21 August 2024.

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