Ishaan Khattar

Ishaan Khattar is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. The son of actors Rajesh Khattar and Neelima Azeem, he made his first screen appearance as a child in the 2005 film Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!, which starred his half-brother Shahid Kapoor.

Khatter had his first leading role in Majid Majidi’s drama Beyond the Clouds (2017), in which his performance as a drug dealer won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. His first commercial success came with the romantic drama Dhadak (2018), and he has since starred in the British miniseries A Suitable Boy (2020).

In 2022, he acted and co-produced film titled Thar which was released on Netflix on 6 May 2022. The film also starred Anil Kapoor, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Satish Kaushik in key roles. It was directed and co-written by Raj Singh Chaudhary. The dialogues were written by Anurag Kashyap.