Arshi Khan Biography – Indian Model, Actress and Bigg Boss Fame

Arshi Khan, is an Indian model, actress, internet celebrity, and reality television personality. She joined the Indian National Congress party to contest the 2019 elections for Mumbai.

Early life

Pandey was born to a family from Afghanistan to Mohammad Arman Khan and Nadira Khan. When she was four years old, her parents moved to India. Khan was a qualified physiotherapist before she started pursuing a career in acting and modeling.

Personal life

Khan and her family moved to India from Afghanistan when Khan was four years old. Khan did her schooling and graduated from Bhopal. Later, Khan went to Mumbai to try her luck in acting and modeling.

Recently, Khan opened up about her hardships in moving to Mumbai after eviction from Bigg Boss 14.

Career

She was chosen to portray a lead role in India’s first mainline Bollywood 4D historical action film titled “The Last Emperor”. She has also appeared in the Tamil film Malli Mishtu. In 2017, she was one of the participants in the reality television show Bigg Boss 11. She was earlier considered to participate in the last two seasons of the show. During her appearances on the show, she was Google India’s second-most searched entertainer of 2017.

Arshi who had joined Indian National Congress resigned due to professional commitments.

In 2018, Arshi was featured in a Punjabi Music video Nakhre. Khan has been featured in 5 music videos that include “Bandi”, which has already gained 4.2 million on YouTube, and Nain Nasheele which already has started to hit 2 million worldwide.

She was a participant in Bigg Boss 14, where she joined in as one of the four challenger participants.

Arshi joined The Great Khali‘s wrestling school CWE in 2021.

Controversies

In September 2015, Khan claimed to be in a relationship with Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi. In the same year, she said that self-proclaimed spiritual leader Radhe Maa ran a prostitution ring and that she had been approached to join it.

In 2016, the mufti of a madrassa in Pakistan issued a fatwa against Khan after she posted pictures of herself to Facebook wearing a bikini with a hijab, with another photo of herself in a burkha, after which her Facebook account was blocked.

During her stay in the Bigg Boss house, an arrest warrant was issued against her by a court in Jalandhar, which according to the sources was due to allegations. Also, during Khan’s stay actress-model Gehana Vasisth claimed that Khan has been faking everything about her age, qualifications, and relationship with Shahid Afridi and is married to a 50-year-old man.

In 2018, Khan claimed that she was boosted out of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi at Vikas Gupta’s behest and fan-made theories comparing the situation Khan was in with Shilpa Shinde’s previous controversy with the referenced producer.

In 2021, Khan was criticized and trolled for copying Lady Gaga and wearing a rip-off of her 2020 MTV Video Music Awards dress at the Bigg Boss 14 afterparty.

In March 2021, Khan was criticized badly after posting a post about Mufti Menk and saying that he was an Islamic salesman.

Filmography

Television

Special appearances

Web series

Music videos

Awards and nominations

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