Bollywood's Style Icon Feroz Khan is Dead

The
actor had been diagnosed with cancer over a year ago.

Firoz Khan was born
in Bangalore, India. His father was Sadiq Ali Khan Tanoli,who was a Pathan
originally from Ghazni province of Afghanistan and his mother (Fatima) came
from Iran.

He has three brothers Sanjay Khan, Sameer Khan and Akbar Khan. After his
schooling from Bangalore, he arrived in Mumbai where he made his debut as s

econd lead in Didi .He married Sundari, a designer and part of the Page
Three circuit in Mumbai. They had two children together, Laila and Fardeen
Khan In 1985, after 20 years of marriage, he divorced his wife. For the next
five years he was forced to play the second to last lead in most of the
movies. Through the early 1960-70s he made low-budget thrillers opposite
starlets.

He also appeared in an English-language film titled Tarzan Goes to India
in 1962 opposite Simi Garewal. His first big hit was in 1965 with the
release of Oonche Log. It was his first major hit, but failed to attain the
success he had hoped. Again, in the same year, he played a sacrificing lover
in the mushy musical Arzoo. With this, Khan earned his entry into A-list
second leads.

With the film Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969), Khan won his first Filmfare award
for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 1971-75 he appeared alongside his
real-life brother Sanjay Khan in the hit film Mela.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he was a leading Bollywood star. He
directed and starred in many of his films. The movie Qurbani (1980) was the
biggest hit of his career and also launched the singing career of Nazia