Ayub Khan-Din

Ayub Khan Din
Born	Ayub Khan Din (1961-05-21) 21 May 1961 Salford, Lancashire England
Residence	Granada in Spain
Nationality	British
Ethnicity	British Pakistani
Occupation	Actor, Playwright
Years active	1987 - present
Spouse(s)	Buki Armstrong (m) 1999
Children	2
Awards	BAFTA Award for Best Film, British Independent Film Award, London Film Critics Circle Award, John Whiting Award, Laurence Olivier Award

Ayub Khan Din (born 1961 in Salford, Lancashire) is a British Pakistani actor perhaps best known for his role of Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid in (1987) and as the writer of the BAFTA, BIFA and London Film Critics Circle award winning film East Is East based on the original 1996 play that was nominated for an Olivier Award in 1998. In 2008 his new comedy play Rafta, Rafta... won the Olivier Award that year. He also wrote sequel film West Is West released in 2010.

Early life

Khan din was born to a Pakistani father and English mother and lived in a Salford upon leaving school he studied drama first at the Salford College of Technology when he completed his course in 1982 he then left to study acting at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London^[1] graduating in 1984. He then went on to pursue a caeer in acting initially in Theatre.

Personal

Ayub Khan Din is married to British-Nigerian actress Buki Armstrong they have 2 daughters and currently reside in Granada Spain.^[2]^[3] Khan Din's brothers are Lee Din and Rasshied Din.^[2] Lee is a make-up artist in the TV industry and tutor at the School of Make-up in Manchester,^[4] and Rassheid is, among other things, the designer of the Diana, Princess of Wales, memorial centre at Althorp.^[5]

Career

As an actor, Khan Din appeared in some 20 British films and TV series in the late 1980s and the he was offered the co-lead role of Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid with Frances Barber in (1987) throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s he worked extensivley on the stage debuting at the Royal National Theatre he was one of the leading characters in the (1992) film The Idiot.

In the mid 1990s, Kahn Din began writing plays, the first was East is East (1996) first produced by Tamasha Theatre Company in co-production with the Royal Court and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. It is often cited as one of the key works to bring Asian culture to mainstream British audiences. The play is published by Nick Hern Books it was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Comedy.^[2] The play draws very much from Kahn-Din's own childhood in Salford, where he grew up in a large family with a British Pakistani father and a white British mother. They had ten children. The marriage was abusive and violent but his father nursed his mother when she was dying of Alzheimer's disease. After her death, he returned to Pakistan but died before the first performance of the play.^[3] In interviews, Khan-Din has said that the young boy Sajid Khan is a self-portrait, and that Sajid's parents are very exact portraits of his own parents.^[6]^[7]

The film version of East is East (1999) stars Om Puri as the father and Linda Bassett as the mother. Khan Din adapted his own play, and won both a British Independent Film Award and a London Critics' Circle Film Award^[8] for his screenplay, as well as being nominated for two BAFTA Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer, he was also nominated for a European Film Award for Best European Screenwriter.^[9]

In 2000 East is East received two further BAFTA nominations that year for Best Film and the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film the latter of which it won.

In 2007 Kahn Din's new comedy play Rafta, Rafta... an adaptation from the 1963 Bill Naughton play, All in Good Time. It is set in the working class English town of Bolton, and examines a story of marital difficulties within an immigrant Indian family it opened on the Lyttelton stage of the Royal National Theatre in London directed by Nicholas Hytner it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2008. The play went on to debut in New York Off-Broadway at the Theatre Row New Group Theatre in May 2008, and has since then debuted at the HuM Theatre in Singapore in May 2010, in Mumbai at the Indian Institute of Technology in 2011 and more recently at the Old Globe Theatre, in San Diego in 2012.

In 2010. A film adaptation of Rafta, Rafta... was released under the title All in Good Time (2012) directed by Nigel Cole and with Reece Ritchie in the leading role.^[10]^[11] Also in 2010 the sequel to East is East, West is West premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and London International Film Festival's.^[7] The film's story is set in 1976, five years after the events in East is East. Father George Khan is worried that his youngest son, Sajid, now 15, is turning his back on his Pakistani heritage, so he decides to take him for a visit to Pakistan.^[12]

In 2013 Khan Din adapted E R Braithwaite's autobiographical novel To Sir, With Love for the stage as part of Royal & Derngate, Northampton's Made In Northampton season. The play was directed by Mark Babych and starred Matthew Kelly and Ansu Kabia.^[13]

In 2014 Khan Din starred in a revival of East is East, at the Trafalgar Studios, London playing the role of the father "George" alongside the actress Jane Horrocks .^[14]

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	My Beautiful Laundrette	Student as (Ayub Khan Din)	A Hanif Kureishi film directed by Stephen Frears
1987	Sammy and Rosie Get Laid	Sammy	A Hanif Kureishi film directed by Stephen Frears
1987	My Family and Other Animals		BBC television series (1 episode)
1988	Young Toscanini	Comparsa	A Italian-French English-language biographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli
1988	The Bill	Rashid (as Ayub Khan Din)	ITV television series (1 episode "Tigers")
1989	Shalom Salaam	Hafiz Sattar	BBC TV (mini series) (5 episodes)
1989	Capital City	Luke	By Euston Films/Thames Television (1 episode)
1989	Boon	Foreign Student	By Central Independent Television ( 1 episode: "In it for the Monet")
1990	The Care of Time	Nahari	TV movie
1991	Doctor at the Top	Dr. Anand	BBC television comedy series ( 1 episode "Bye Bye, Bickerstaff")
1991	Lebewohl, Fremde	Sehrat	German Film Tevfik Başer screened at the Cannes Film Festival
1992	Idiot	Myshkin	A Hindi film based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Idiot was directed by Mani Kaul and starred Shah Rukh Khan and Ayub Khan-Din.
1992	KYTV		BBC TV Comedy series (1 episode, "God Alone Knows")
1992-93	Coronation Street	Hanif Ruparell	ITV Soap opera (19 episodes)
1993	The Burning Season	Patwant (Pat)	A Canadian/Indian Film
1994	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Horbury	Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1 episode)
1994-95	The Chief	Councillor Mani Shankar	An AngliaTelevision production ( 7 episodes)
1995	Backup	Ali	BBC TV series ( 1 episode "Toleration Zone")
1995	Dangerfield	Kevin Deehan	BBC TV series ( 1 episode "The Dead Businessman")
1996	London Bridge	Ravi Shah	Carlton Television series (19 episodes)

Writing credits

List of television, film and theatre credits
Title	Year	Medium	Notes
East is East	1996	Theatre	New Comedy Play; Writer
East is East	1999	Film	Screenplay; (Adapted) Writer
Rafta Rafta	2007	Theatre	New Comedy Play; Writer (Adaptation) Writer
West is West	2010	Film	Screenplay; Writer
All in Good Time	2012	Film	Screenplay; Writer

Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards

1 win and 4 nominations

British Academy Film Awards
Year	Nominated work	Category	Result^[15]
1999	East Is East	BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer	Nominated
1999	East Is East	British Academy Film Awards for Best Screenplay (Adapted)	Nominated
2000	East Is East	BAFTA Award for Best Film	Nominated
2000	East Is East	BAFTA Award for Best British Film	Won

British Independent Film Awards

1 win and 1 nomination

British Independent Film Awards
Year	Nominated work	Category	Result^[15]
1999	East Is East	British Independent Film Award for Best Screen Play	Won

London Film Critics' Circle

1 win and 1 nomination

London Film Critics' Circle
Year	Nominated work	Category	Result
1999	East Is East	Best Screen Play	Won

Laurence Olivier Awards

1 win, 2 nominations

Laurence Olivier Award
Year	Nominated work	Category	Result
1998	East Is East	Laurence Olivier Awards Best New Comedy	Nominated
2008	Rafta, Rafta...	Laurence Olivier Awards Best New Comedy	Won

European Film Awards

1 nomination

European Film Awards
Year	Nominated work	Category	Result
1999	East Is East	European Screenwriter^[16]	Nominated

References

↑ "Playwrights & Practitioners". http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Retrieved 27 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
1 2 3 Internet Movie Database: Ayub Khan Din trivia, retrieved 2010-10-24
1 2 "East is East in Brum" (Jan 2015) What's On, p.6
↑ School of Make-up biography, retrieved 2010-10-24
↑ TES Connect: Rasshied Din interview 1998, retrieved 2010-10-24
↑ Interview for Kamera.co.uk 1999, retrieved 2010-10-24
1 2 BBC Manchester 20 October 2010: West is West follow-up confirmed by Salford film writer, retrieved 2010-10-24
↑ "British Independent Film Awards 1999". https://www.bifa.film/awards. Retrieved 27 November 2015. External link in |website= (help)
↑ Internet Movie Database: Ayub Khan Din awards, retrieved 2010-10-24
↑ Internet Movie Database: Rafta, Rafta, retrieved 2010-10-24
↑ All in Good Time at the Internet Movie Database
↑ West is West, BBC Films, retrieved 2010-10-24
↑ The List retrieved 2014-9-25
↑ Paul Taylor "East Is East, Trafalgar Studios, review: Jane Horrocks terrific in Khan Din's comedy", The Independent, 16 October 2015
1 2
↑ "European Screenwriter Nominations 1999". European Film Academy Suche Sitemap Disclaimer European Film Awards EFA Productions European Film Academy, European Film Awards. Retrieved 28 November 2015.

External links

BAFTA Award for Best British Film

1947–1967	Odd Man Out (1947) The Fallen Idol (1948) The Third Man (1949) The Blue Lamp (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) The Sound Barrier (1952) Genevieve (1953) Hobson's Choice (1954) Richard III (1955) Reach for the Sky (1956) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Room at the Top (1958) Sapphire (1959) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) A Taste of Honey (1961) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Tom Jones (1963) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) The Ipcress File (1965) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1966) A Man for All Seasons (1967)

1992–present	The Crying Game (1992) Shadowlands (1993) Shallow Grave (1994) The Madness of King George (1995) Secrets & Lies (1996) Nil by Mouth (1997) Elizabeth (1998) East Is East (1999) Billy Elliot (2000) Gosford Park (2001) The Warrior (2002) Touching the Void (2003) My Summer of Love (2004) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) The Last King of Scotland (2006) This Is England (2007) Man on Wire (2008) Fish Tank (2009) The King's Speech (2010) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Skyfall (2012) Gravity (2013) The Theory of Everything (2014) Brooklyn (2015)

British Independent Film Awards

Categories	Best British Independent Film Best Foreign Independent Film Best Actor in a British Independent Film Best Actress in a British Independent Film Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best British Short Film The Richard Harris Award

Ceremonies	2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy

Donkeys' Years (1976)
Privates on Parade (1977)
Filumena (1978)
Middle-Age Spread (1979)
Educating Rita (1980)
Steaming (1981)
Noises Off (1982)
Daisy Pulls It Off (1983)
Up 'n' Under (1984)
A Chorus of Disapproval (1985)
When We Are Married (1986)
Three Men on a Horse (1987)
Shirley Valentine (1988)
Single Spies (1989/1990)
Out of Order (1991)
La Bête (1992)
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (1993)
Hysteria (1994)
My Night with Reg (1995)
Mojo (1996)
'Art' (1997)
Popcorn (1998)
Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (1999)
The Memory of Water (2000)
Stones in His Pockets (2001)
The Play What I Wrote (2002)
The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2003)
Heroes (2006)
The 39 Steps (2007)
Rafta, Rafta... (2008)
God of Carnage (2009)
The Priory (2010)
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (2014)
The Play That Goes Wrong (2015)

London Film Critics' Circle

Current awards	Film Director Foreign Language Film Actor Actress Screenwriter Supporting Actor Supporting Actress British Film British Actor British Actress British Supporting Actor British Supporting Actress

Special	Dilys Powell Award

Ceremonies	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

John Whiting Award

1967–1969	Tom Stoppard for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Wole Soyinka (shared) (1967) Peter Nichols for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967) Peter Barnes for The Ruling Class and Edward Bond for Narrow Road to the Deep North (shared) (1968) Howard Brenton for Christie in Love (1969)

1970–1979	Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for Freehold on Antigone (1970) Mustapha Matura for As Time Goes By (1971) Heathcote Williams for AC/DC (1972) John Arden (1973) David Rudkin (1974) David Edgar for Destiny (1975) David Lan for The Winter Dancers (1976) David Halliwell and Snoo Wilson for The Glad Hand (shared) (1978) Stephen Bill (1979)

1980–1989	David Pownall for Beef (1981) Karim Alrawi for Migrations (1982) Peter Flannery for Our Friends in the North (1983) Ron Hutchinson for The Rat in the Skull (1984) Guy Hibbert for On the Edge and Heidi Thomas for Shamrocks & Crocodiles (shared) (1985) Nick Dear for The Art of Success (1986) Iain Heggie for American Bagpipes (1988) Billy Roche for A Handful of Stars (1989)

1990–1999	Lucy Gannon for Keeping Tom Nice (1990) Terry Johnson for Imagine Drowning (1991) Rod Wooden for Your Home in the West (1992) Martin Crimp for The Treatment and Helen Edmundson for The Clearing (shared) (1993) Jonathan Harvey for Beautiful Thing (1994) Joe Penhall for Some Voices (1995) Ayub Khan-Din for East is East (1996) Ann Coburn for Get up and Tie you Fingers (1997) Roy Williams for Starstruck (1998/9)

2000–2009	David Greig for The Cosmonaut's Last Message ... and Tanika Gupta for The Waiting Room (shared) (2000) Zinnie Harris for Farther than the Farest Thing (2001) Peter Rumney for Jumping on my Shadow (2002) Rona Munro for Iron (2003) Owen McCafferty for Scenes from the Big Picture (2004) Fin Kennedy for How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (2005) James Philips for The Rubenstein Kiss and Fraser Grace for Breakfast with Mugabe (shared) (2006) Dennis Kelly for Taking Care of Baby (2007) Bryony Lavery for Stockholm (2008) Alexi Kaye Campbell for The Pride (2009)

2010–9999	Tim Crouch for The Author and Lucy Kirkwood for It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It Is Alright Now (shared) (2010)

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