Early Life and Background
Irrfan Khan was born in Jaipur to a Muslim family. Khan's mother, Begum, was from the Tonk Hakim family, and his father, the late Jagirdar, was from the Khajuriya village near the Tonk district, and ran a tyre business. Khan was studying for his M.A. degree, when he earned a scholarship to study at National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi in 1984.
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