Ayub Khan-Din

Ayub Khan-Din

Ayub Khan-Din (1961 - ) is a playwright and actor, who was born in Salford, Lancashire, England. His father is British Pakistani and his mother is white British.

As an actor, Khan-Din is best-known for the role of Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" (1987). He is also an award-winning playwright, best known for "East is East" which was also released as a film in 1999, starring Om Puri. In the early 1990s, he starred in "Idiot". His latest work, the play "Rafta, Rafta...", is a comic adaptation of "All in Good Time", in which the story of a northern working class family in the 1960s is transposed to a contemporary Asian family.

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*imdb name|id=0451351|name=Ayub Khan-Din
* [http://www.kamera.co.uk/interviews/ayubkhandin.html A quick chat with the writer - Ayub Khan-din]


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