Krutika Desai Khan

Krutika Desai Khan who some time also spells her name as Kruttika Desai is the daughter of the noted Stage personalty late Shri Jagdish Desai. She is a popular Indian Flim , Theater & Television actress . Krutika is married to Imtiaz Khan, the son of renowned Hindi film actor of the yester years, Jayant and the brother of the late actor Amjad Khan. Imtiaz himself is an acomplished actor and director on the Hindi film & television scene.

Films

She acted in Insaaf (1987) a Hindi film directed by Mukul Anand with co stars including Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Suresh Oberoi, Dalip Tahil, Shakti Kapoor, Shammi, Madan Joshi and Vikram Gokhale.

She has also acted in the 2001 National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) produced film titled "Dattak" directed by Gul Bahar Singh and written by Partha Banerjee & Subbir Mukherjee with Rajit Kapoor, Anjan Srivastav & A.K. Hangal as her co-stars.

She acted in a 1985 Tele Film Apna Jahan, which was written and directed by Subroto Boseand had Benjamin Gilani, Arti Gupta, Vijay Kashyap, Alok Nath, Deepti Naval & Naseeruddin Shah co-staring with her .

In 2004 she acted in a Hebrew film titled "Sof Ha'Olam Smola " AKA "Au bout du monde à gauche" (French) and "Turn Left at the End of the World" (International: English title), this film directed by Avi Nesher and written by Sara Eden & Avi Nesher won the Award of the Israeli Film Academy in the categories Best Art Direction for Yoram Shayer and Best Costume Design for Rona Doron and got four other nominations Best Actress / Neta Garty, Best Cinematography / David Gurfinkel, Best Sound / Eli Yarkoni and Best Supporting Actress / Liraz Charchi . Her co stars in the film were Neta Garty, Liraz Charchi, Aure Atika, Jean Benguigui, Parmeet Sethi, Ruby Porat Shoval, Rotem Abuhab, Israel Katorza, Nadav Abuksis, Mariano Idelman, Nati Ravitz, Michael Morim (as Micha Morim), Efrat Aviv & Evelin Hagoel.

She has also acted in a Bengali film titled "Dastak". At present she is reportedly involved in a Comedy/Drama/Thriller being written and directed by Faisal Saif.

Theatre

She is involved in "Akansha [ [http://www.financialexpress.com/news/story/80838/b] ] " , a theater workshop for street children and has also acted in a number of Gujarati plays including "Shodh Pratishodh" [ [http://www.screenindia.com/old/20020705/tvspot.html] ] " which won rave reviews and accolades from the masses as well as the classes and was performed 125 times in four months, a record of sorts.

She has also acted in "Pallavi Bani Parvati" and "To Karo Shree Ganesh", both Gujarati plays.

She is also involved in In 7x3=21 (Saat Tari Ekvees), in which seven directors, actors and writers come together to create seven monologues. She plays a middle-class woman married into a rich family whose marriage values challenge her childhood values.

Television

Since the start of her acting carrier in the 1980s she has acted in a number of television soaps and serials including - Buniyaad , Chandrakanta, Zameen Aasmaan, Kismet, Hungama, Superhit Muqabla, A Mouthful of Sky, Mansi, Tumhari Disha . In the popular Balaji Telefilms soap "Kkusum", she portrayed Devanshi and in another popular Sony Television soap Yeh Meri Life Hai, she played the role of the mother of Ronit Gujral. She played step-mother-in-law to lead Srejita De in "Annu Ki Ho Gaye Waah Bhai Waah" and Reena Kapoor’s first mother-in-law in "Woh Rehne Wali Mehlon Ki" on Sahara One. She also acted in the Epic NOORJEHAN directed by her husband Imtiaz Khan for Cinevista.

At the same time she also played the very unconventional & pretty complex role of Roopali Roopchand in 'Lipstick' the daringly different show conceived with the intent of shocking middle class sensibilities and presenting an unadulterated view of the upper class on late night television which examined various issues like homosexuality and extramarital relationships.

It is reported that she will be partnering Chhavi Mittal , her reel life "bahu" in "Tumhari Disha" to participate on Sahara One's dance based reality show ‘Saas V/S Bahu’.

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