Kay Kay Menon

Kay Kay Menon
Kay Kay Menon promotes Saat Uchakkey at Libas Store Mumbai, 2016
Born 1966
Kerala, India
Residence Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality Indian
Education University of Mumbai
Occupation Actor
Years active 1995–present
Spouse(s) Nivedita Bhattacharya

Kay Kay Menon (born c. 1966)[1] is an Indian film, stage and television actor who works predominantly in Hindi cinema, and also in Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu cinema. He has also won the award for best actor for the film Shoonya from Festival of Arab and Asian cinema.[2]

Early life

Menon was born in Kerala and raised in Ambarnath and Pune, Maharashtra.[1]

He studied at the St. Josephs Boys' High School in Khadki, Pune.[3] He passed his 10th grade in 1981. He did his Bachelors (Physics)[1] from Mumbai University and his MBA from the Department of Management Sciences (PUMBA) at the University of Pune,[1] graduating in 1988 with a major in Marketing.

Menon's initial focus was working in the advertising industry[1] including Kinetic Honda and Marlboro cigarette advertisements in India.

Career

He started his career in theatre productions where he met Nivedita Bhattacharya, whom he married. His first theatre break was opposite Naseeruddin Shah in Feroz Abbas Khan's Mahatma vs Gandhi.[4]

In the early years of his career, Menon worked on television, with roles in the TV movies Zebra 2 and Last Train To Mahakali. He was praised for his role as a young Prime Minister in the Zee TV series Pradhan Mantri (2001), directed by Ketan Mehta. In The Hindu, Sevanti Ninan wrote, "an actor to watch: Kay Kay Menon ... this unusually tall actor who plays the pradhan mantri is a major saving grace"[5] while in The Tribune, Amita Malik commented, "excellent acting by Menon, who skilfully conveys the physical as well as mental image of the honest politician".[6]

Menon made his big screen debut with a small role in Naseem (1995), followed in 1999 by the lead role in Bhopal Express,[4] a movie that went mostly unnoticed. This was the first in a series of initial setbacks in Menon's film career. In the early 2000s, he starred as a wicked rock musician in Anurag Kashyap's debut movie, Paanch, which struggled with censorship and has remained unreleased.[7][8] Two other movies, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi and Black Friday, had to wait many years for a release date. Meanwhile, his commercial films Deewar (starring Amitabh Bachchan) and Silsiilay (with Shahrukh Khan) flopped at the box office. It was only in 2005, with the eventual release of the critically acclaimed Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, but most of all with Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar, that Menon had his break.[7] Sarkar earned him a nomination for the Best Performance in a Negative Role at the Filmfare Awards.[9] In The Tribune, Saibal Chatterjee called him "one of Bollywood's finest actors".[7]

In 2007, he acted in Life in a... Metro, as an adulterous husband. In 2008, he appeared in Shaurya [10] [11] based on A Few Good Men . His portryal of a ruthless army brigadier is still talked of among cinema lovers. [12] [13] In 2009, he starred in The Stoneman Murders where he played a police officer on the hunt for the Stoneman serial killer.[14] He played the role of Dukki Bana in Gulaal.

His role as Khurram Mir in 2014's Haider bagged him a Filmfare and IIFA award for Best Supporting Actor.

Filmography

All films in Hindi unless otherwise stated.
YearFilmRoleNotes
2018PhamousKadak Singh
20183 Dev[15]Satyavan
2018Firrkie[16]
2018San' 75 PachattarGovind
2018Baa Baaa Black SheepACP Shivraj Naik
2018Vodka DiariesACP Ashwini Dixit
2018DhaadGheloGujarati[17]; released 17 years after being shot
2017The Ghazi AttackCaptain Ranvijay SinghTelugu / Hindi
2016Saat UchakkeyTejpal
2016A Flying JattMr. Malhotra
2015Singh Is BliingMark
2015Bombay VelvetInvestigative Officer Vishwas Kulkarni
2015RahasyaCBI Officer Sunil Paraskar
2015BabyBilal Khan
2014HaiderKhurram MeerInternational Indian Film Academy Awards for Best Performance in a Negative Role

Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor[18]

Nominated—BIG Star Entertainment Awards for Most Entertaining Actor in a Thriller Film – Male

Nominated—International Indian Film Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated—Screen Awards for Best Supporting Actor

Nominated—Screen Awards for Best Actor in a Negative Role

Nominated—Star Guild Awards for Best Actor in a Negative Role

Nominated— Stardust Awards for Best Actor in a Negative Role

2014Raja NatwarlalVardha Yadav
2013Ankur Arora Murder CaseDr. Asthana
2013Udhayam NH4Manoj MenonTamil film
2013ABCD: Any Body Can DanceJehangir
2013EnemmyNaeem Shaikh
2012ShahidWar saab
2012Life Ki Toh Lag GayiSalman
2012Chaalis ChouraasiAlbert Pinto
2011Bhindi BaazaarShroff
2011Bheja Fry 2Ajit Talwar
2010Benny And BablooBenny
2010Lafangey ParindeyAnna
2010Tera Kya Hoga JohnnyInspector Shashikant Chiple
2009Sankat CityGuru
2009Aage se rightJanubhai/Baima Rashidul Kairi
2009GulaalDukey Bana
2009The Stoneman MurdersSanjay Shelar
2008DronaRiz Razaida
2008SirfGaurav
2008ShauryaBrigadier Rudra Pratap Singh
2008Via DarjeelingAnkur Sharma
2008Mumbai Meri JaanSuresh
2008Maan Gaye Mughal-e-AzamHaldi Hasan
2008Highway 203WriterUnreleased[19]
2008Sarkar RajVishnu Nagare
2007GoNagesh Rao
2007Life in a... MetroRanjeetNominated—International Indian Film Academy Awards for Best Performance in a Negative Role
2007Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.Partho Sen
2007StrangersMr Rai
2006ShoonyaMahendra Naik
2006CorporateRitesh SahaniNominated—GIFA Best Supporting Actor
2005Ek Khiladi Ek HaseenaKaif
2005Main, Meri Patni Aur WohAkash
2005DanshMathew
2005SarkarVishnu NagareNominated—Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role[9]
2004SilsiilayAnwar
2004DeewaarSohail
2004Black FridayDCP Rakesh MariaReleased in theaters in 2007[20]
2003Hazaaron Khwaishein AisiSiddharth TyabjiReleased in theaters in 2005[21]
2003PaanchLukeUnreleased[8]
2002ChhalKaran Menon
1999Bhopal ExpressVerma
1995NaseemReligious fundamentalistDebut film[4]

Television

YearShowRole
1995-96 Darr Inspector Avinash
1999 Star Bestsellers - Zebra 2 Captain Rajeev
1999 Star Bestsellers - Last Train to Mahakali Sir
2000 Rishtey - Ward No. 6 Rajat
2001 Pradhan Mantri PM Anirudh Prakash
2014 Yudh Municipal Commissioner

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Gupta, Priya (29 September 2014). "Kay Kay Menon: I take my work seriously, not myself". The Times of India. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
  2. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1946407/awards
  3. ↑ Ravi, Shruti (19 January 2012). "Pune is like Mumbai now, says Kay Kay Menon". The Times of India. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
  4. 1 2 3 Gupta, Priya (30 September 2014). "Kay Kay Menon: I take my work seriously, not myself". Times of India. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Ninan, Sevanti (22 April 2001). "Melodrama with a K". The Hindu. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  6. ↑ Malik, Amita (27 April 2001). "Mantris in tough competition". The Tribune. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 Chatterjee, Saibal (28 August 2005). "A man among boys". The Tribune. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  8. 1 2 Shrivastava, Vipra (26 December 2014). "Seven reasons why Anurag Kashyap is the 'ugliest' filmmaker". India Today. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  9. 1 2 "2006 Filmfare Awards". Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  10. ↑ "A Few Hindoo'd Men".
  11. ↑ "Masand's Verdict: Shaurya".
  12. ↑ "Drona reminded me of my childhood".
  13. ↑ "Drona makers spend a fortune on villain".
  14. ↑ Vijayakar, Rajiv (2009-02-20). "The Stoneman Murders (Hindi)". Screen India. Archived from the original on 25 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
  15. ↑
  16. ↑
  17. ↑ Oza, Nandini (January 5, 2018). "After 17 years, Gujarati film Dhaad starring Nandita Das set for release". The Week.
  18. ↑ "Queen and Haider rule at Filmfare awards". The National. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  19. ↑ Highway 203 on IMDb . Retrieved on 8 September 2016
  20. ↑ "Moving beyond art". The Telegraph. 25 January 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  21. ↑ "Hazaaron Revisited". The Telegraph. 18 October 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2015.


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