Theatre Khan began his acting career on stage, with a role in
Quasar Thakore-Padamsee’s adaptation of
Bertolt Brecht’s play
Mother Courage and Her Children in 2017. He then played the lead role of a slave in his sister, Ira's theatre production of
Medea, at the
Prithvi Theatre in 2019. In 2024, Khan starred in
Faezeh Jalali's tragicomedy play
Runaway Brides, as part of the Prithvi Theatre festival. Also at the theatre, he played multiple roles in
Shikhandi, based on the
character of the same name. In the same year, he played a
trans woman in Jalali's play
Strictly Unconventional at the
National Centre for the Performing Arts. Reviewing the play,
Deepa Gahlot found Khan "totally relaxed in his flamboyant outfit and wig".
Films Khan made his lead acting debut with the leading role of social reformer
Karsandas Mulji in the period drama film
Maharaj. It is based on the
Maharaj Libel Case of 1862, about a priest who sexually assaulted women. Khan prepared for a year to play Mulji, relying on information he found in the public domain, losing around 25 kg of body weight, and learning the dialect in which Mulji spoke. The film was released on
Netflix in 2024, following delays due to legal disputes. Shilajit Mitra of
The Hindu reviewed that Khan is "sincere and sharp-featured as the striving Karsandas [...] though still miles away from emerging a captivating leading man: he is especially dull in the courtroom scenes". In 2025, Khan had his first theatrical release opposite
Khushi Kapoor in the romantic comedy
Loveyapa, a remake of the
Tamil film
Love Today (2022). It tells the story of an engaged couple who switch phones before their marriage; Khan admitted to feeling miscast in the role as he found his character’s personality vastly different from his own. Titas Chowdhury of
News18 took note of Khan's comic timing, which he did not have an opportunity to display in
Maharaj. Conversely,
Rediff.com's
Sukanya Verma dismissed his "acting method [as] akin to someone wringing out water from a towel" and criticised his chemistry with Kapoor. It emerged as a
box-office bomb. The following year, Khan starred opposite
Sai Pallavi in the
Sapporo-set romance
Ek Din (2026), produced by his father. In a mixed review of the film for the Indian edition of
The Hollywood Reporter, Rahul Desai found that Khan portrayed his introverted character "as if it’s a medical condition", preferring the performance of Pallavi who he remarked is "acting for two". == Filmography ==