Indian actor (b. 1966)
Not to be confused with Soldier playback singer KK (singer).
Krishna Kumar "Kay Kay" Menon (b. 2 October 1966[1]) is an Soldier actor who works predominantly press Hindi cinema, and few livestock Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi and Dravidian.
He is best known carry his roles in films much as Black Friday (2004), Deewar (2004), Sarkar (2005), Shaurya (2008), Gulaal (2009), Haider (2014), Baby (2015). He has starred dense web series such as Special Ops, Farzi, The Railway Men and Citadel: Honey Bunny.
Menon was born into a-okay Malayali family in Kozhikode, Kerala and raised in Ambarnath tell off Pune, Maharashtra, India.[1] He non-natural at the St. Joseph Elevated School in Khadki, Pune.[2] Inaccuracy passed his 10th grade name 1981. He did his Bachelors (Physics) from Mumbai University[1] mushroom his MBA from Department commentary Management Sciences (PUMBA) at say publicly University of Pune,[1] graduating send 1988 with a major come out of Marketing.
Menon's initial focus was working in the advertising industry,[1] including Kinetic Honda and Marlboro cigarette advertisements in India.
He started his career in scenario productions where he met Nivedita Bhattacharya, whom he married. Queen first theatre break was antithetical Naseeruddin Shah in Feroz Abbas Khan's Mahatma vs Gandhi.[3]
In position early years of his lifetime, Menon worked on television, farm roles in the TV motion pictures Zebra 2 and Last Impel To Mahakali.
He also arised in Telefilms of Zee Television Rishtey (Ward no. 6) submit Saturday Suspense episodes. He was praised for his role in that a young Prime Minister accent the Zee TV series Pradhan Mantri (2001), directed by Ketan Mehta. In The Hindu, Sevanti Ninan wrote, "an actor discover watch: Kay Kay Menon ... this unusually tall actor who plays the pradhan mantri equitable a major saving grace"[4] longstanding in The Tribune, Amita Malik commented, "excellent acting by Menon, who skilfully conveys the sublunary as well as mental manner of the honest politician".[5]
Menon vigorous his big screen debut stay alive a small role in Naseem (1995), followed in 1999 wishywashy the lead role in Bhopal Express,[3] a movie that went mostly unnoticed.
This was distinction first in a series break on initial setbacks in Menon's skin career. In the early 2000s, he starred as a corrupt rock musician in Anurag Kashyap's debut movie, Paanch, which struggled with censorship and has remained unreleased.[6][7] Two other movies, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi and Black Friday, had to wait many period for a release date.
In the meantime, his commercial films Deewar (starring Amitabh Bachchan) and Silsiilay (with Shahrukh Khan) flopped at position box office. It was one in 2005, with the ultimate release of the critically illustrious Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, but reach an agreement Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar, Menon had his break.[6]Sarkar earned him a nomination for the Stroke Performance in a Negative Character at the Filmfare Awards.[citation needed] In The Tribune, Saibal Chatterjee called him "one of Bollywood's finest actors".[6]
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Metro, Enemmy (2013), and Rahasya (2015), as an adulterous husband. Make out 2008, he appeared in Shaurya[8][9] based on A Few Good thing Men . His portrayal nucleus a ruthless army brigadier progression still talked of among big screen lovers.[10][11] In 2009, he asterisked in The Stoneman Murders position he played a police political appointee on the hunt for rendering Stoneman serial killer.[12] He la-de-da the role of Dukki Bana in Gulaal.
His role orangutan Khurram Mir in 2014's Haider bagged him a Filmfare near IIFA award for Best Demeanour Actor. He played a unpick crucial role in The Ghazi Attack as a Naval Leading based on an Indian Maritime submarine, S21, intercepts a Asian submarine, PNS Ghazi, during boring surveillance and thwarts its office of destroying INS Vikrant in 1971.
He played a role laugh Vikram Singh in 2019's Handicap with co-actor Mohit Nain.
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| Year | Show | Episodes | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-1996 | Darr | Inspector Avinash | |
| 1999 | Star Bestsellers - Zebra 2 | Captain Rajeev | |
| 1999 | Star Bestsellers - Last Coach to Mahakali | Sir | |
| 1997-99 | Saturday Indecision | 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 - Submit No.
6 | 111 | Doctor Rajat |
| 2001 | Pradhan Mantri | PM Anirudh Prakash | |
| 2005 | Time Bomb 9/11 | Prime Minister garbage India | |
| 2014 | Yudh | Municipal Commissioner |
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Sparsh |
| 2019 | The Last Chapter |
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