Arshi Khan | |
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Born | 28 November 1989 (age 28) Afghanistan |
Nationality | Indian |
Years active | 2014–present |
Known for | Bigg Boss 11 |
Home town | Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India |
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Arshi Khan is an Indian model, actress and reality television personality. She gained attention after participating in the eleventh season of controversial reality show Bigg Boss. During her stay in Bigg Boss house, she was Google India's second-most searched entertainer of 2017, after Sunny Leone.
Khan initially started acting in theater, but soon she received offers from the modeling industry. She was introduced to Janaab Ehsaan Chishti, a theater director in Bhopal. She won the Miss Glory Earth beauty contest in 2014. She went on to become a finalist of the Ms. Bikini Online contest, also in 2014. 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.
In September 2015, Khan said she was in a relationship with Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi, and claimed that she was pregnant with Afridi’s baby. Later, during her appearance in the show Bigg Boss, Khan denied this claim to host Salman Khan and said that she had lied about being pregnant.
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, a fatwa was issued by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed against Khan for posting pictures of herself in a bikini underneath a hijab along with another photo of herself in a burkha, on her Facebook account, after which her official Facebook page was blocked. In late 2016, Khan was arrested for involvement in prostitution in Pune. In 2017, Indian actress Gehana Vasisth claimed that Khan never met Afridi, that Khan is married to a 50-year-old man and has various legal cases pending against her.