FAHAD FAZIL

FAHAD FAZIL - Film Actor

Fahad Fazil - (August 8, 1982) was born at Alapuzha, Kerala.  His father is a well known Director Fazil. After completing his school education from Choice School, Thripunithura and Lawrence School, Lovedale, Ooty, he entered into an engineering program, but later decided to drop out. He joined Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha, to pursue a B.Com. degree. He also has a M.A. in philosophy from the University of Miami. Fahad had chosen an on-screen name Shaanu, but after the failure of his first film, he reverted to his birth name itself..

Fahad's first film was Kaiyethum Doorath (2001) which was directed by his father and prominent director Fazil. The film failed miserably and many thought it was the end of Fahad's career. 

He went into hibernation, pursued his studies in the United States and returned in 2009 to act in the portmanteau film Kerala Cafe (2010), conceived by noted director Ranjith. It was Ranjith who set Fahad on his comeback trail. At Ranjith's behest, director Uday Ananthan cast the actor in his Mrityunjayam, one of the 10 shorts in the film. He played the role of a journalist in the Mrityunjayam, a ghost film set on a spooky old 'Mana'. Fahad's performance was very well noticed although the role was brief and he was chosen to play a major supporting role in B. Unnikrishnan's Pramani in which he co-starred. He then appeared as a business head, a kind of role that he enacted in many of his later films, in the critically acclaimed thriller Cocktail (2010). His next film Tournament was also a thriller but wasn't noticed well.

Fahad got his career break with Sameer Thahir's directorial debut Chappa Kurishu, a thriller in which he appeared as the head of a construction business — a womaniser. "Arjun – my character in Chappa Kurishu is not a role that an actor gets often. I am very lucky and very fortunate," Fahad said. He shot a long kissing scene with his co-star Remya Nambeesan in the film — supposedly the first ever in Malayalam cinema — which upon release was termed as controversial, causing a great stir in the industry. 

Fahadh's next film, Akam, a contemporary adaptation of Malayatoor Ramakrishnan's psycho-thriller novel Yakshi, had him playing Srinivas, a young architect, who starts suspecting that his beautiful wife is a yakshi. "Playing Srinivas was like re-inventing myself. We had a workshop before shooting began and I had ample opportunity to explore the nuances of the character. In the process of re-inventing Srinivas, I re-invented myself," said Fahad.  The film premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival but did not have a commercial release. 22 Female Kottayam, a revenge film featuring him alongside Rima Kallingal was yet another break in his career. He played the role of a pimp which gained recognition from critics as well as audiences. The film earned him the label "Emraan Hashmi of Malayalam cinema" that has been stuck on him in social networking websites for jest but the actor has revealed that he does not like the label. In his next film, Lal Jose's Diamond Necklace, he played the role of an oncologist working in Dubai and the film centred around the doctor's relationship with three different women. 

In June 2012, a case was registered against Fahad by the Kochi Town Central Police for violation of the rule against public display of images of smoking. A poster of Diamond Necklace that showed him smoking a cigarette had been on display before the Kavitha Theatre in Kochi since the film was released. 

In his next film, Lijin Jose's Friday, he acted as an auto rickshaw driver. Fahad has completed the shoot of Gangs of Vadakkumnathan, one of the five featurettes from the forthcoming portmanteau film D Company. His next film is cinematographer Rajeev Ravi's directorial debut Annayum Rasoolum. He is currently working in Lijo Jose Pellissery's Amen, V. K. Prakash's Netholi Oru Cheriya Meenala and Salam Bappu's directorial debut Red Wine. Fahad teams up with Mohanlal for the first time through Red Wine which also stars Asif Ali. Fahadh has also signed Traffic fame Rajesh Pillai's Gold, Lal's Honey Bee, A. V. Sasidharan's Olipporu and Senthil's Red Carpet.

He won the Kerala State award in 2011 as Second Best Actor for  Akam, Chaappa Kurish.

On 20 January 2014, he got engaged to Malayalam and Tamil film actress Nazriya Nazim whom he married on 21 August 2014.The pair had gotten to know each other more on the sets of Anjali Menon's Bangalore Days (2014), in which they were playing a husband and wife. Fahadh revealed that their parents had been pivotal in arranging the marriage.