page_title: Saad Khan
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Saad Khan / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Saad khan conference
context_page_description: Saad Khan is an Indian film director, screenwriter and acting teacher. He is the founder and creative head of FirstAction and A for Acting where he mentors nurturing talents. Khan is known for his Kannada feature film Humble Politician Nograj, which is the first Kannada film to achieve world-wide digital audience presence on Amazon Prime.
  Khan worked in Bollywood as an Associate Director to Oscar nominated filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker. Khan was the director of the 2014 film Station, that was the first Hindi feature film in Bangalore. In 2008, Khan's short film Another Kind of Black was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Khan filmed his first Hollywood feature film titled Love and She in Louisiana. In 2018, his home-grown critically acclaimed film Humble Politician Nograj released. The film became the first Kannada-English film to become a box office hit in India and achieve the biggest overseas release across USA, UK, Europe, Australia, Germany, among other countries.
context_section_description: Khan was born in Mumbai, India, and was raised in Bangalore. Khan is an alumnus of St. Joseph's College, eventually graduating as a mechanical engineer from M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology. While studying to be an engineer, he developed an interest in theatre at the age of 17 and started writing and directing plays. He also spearheaded a theatre group which then produced over 12 plays in a span of 4 years.
  Khan decided to pursue a career in film and media. After graduating from college, Khan left for the United States to continue his education in filmmaking. He got a degree certificate in filmmaking from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University where he was also awarded a study scholarship and assistantship. Khan's determination to excel in filmmaking then took him to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he was awarded his master's degree in Communication and Media. He then returned to New York to complete the summer degree program in directing at Tisch.
caption: Khan giving the Keynote Speech after receiving the Outstanding Alumnus Award 2015 from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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