Shadaab Khan was born on 20 September 1973 in
Bombay,
Maharashtra,
India (now
Mumbai) into a
Muslim family to parents
Amjad Khan and Shaila Khan. Shadaab is of
Pashtun descent on his father's side, traced back to
Peshawar,
North-West Frontier Province (now in
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan), where his grandfather Zakaria Khan, better known as
Jayant, was born and raised. Through his mother, his grandfather is
Akhtar ul Iman, an
Urdu poet and screenwriter in the Hindi film industry who has written the dialogues for two of
Yash Chopra's best-known movies,
Waqt (1965) and
Ittefaq (1969). He has two siblings, brother Seemab Khan, a
club cricketer, and sister Ahlam Khan, an actress and screenwriter married to actor
Zafar Karachiwala. He is married to Rumana Achwa since 2005. ==Books==