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Krishna Kumar Menon (born 2 October 1966[1]), better known by the stage name Kay Kay Menon, is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Hindi cinema, and also in Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu cinema.

Kay Kay Menon
Menon in 2016
Born	Krishna Kumar Menon (1966-10-02) 2 October 1966 (age 56) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Education	University of Pune, Department of Management Sciences (PUMBA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1995–present
Spouse	Nivedita Bhattacharya

Early life

Menon was born in a Nair family in Thiruvananthapuram and raised in Ambarnath and Pune, Maharashtra.[1]

He studied at the St. Joseph High School in Khadki, Pune.[2] He passed his 10th grade in 1981. He did his Bachelors (Physics)[1] from Mumbai University^{[citation needed]} and his MBA from 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.[3]

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"[4] 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".[5]

Menon made his big screen debut with a small role in Naseem (1995), followed in 1999 by the lead role in Bhopal Express,[3] 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.[6][7] 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 with Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar, Menon had his break.[6] Sarkar earned him a nomination for the Best Performance in a Negative Role at the Filmfare Awards.^{[citation needed]} In The Tribune, Saibal Chatterjee called him "one of Bollywood's finest actors".[6]

In 2007, he acted in Life in a... Metro, as an adulterous husband. In 2008, he appeared in Shaurya[8][9] based on A Few Good Men . His portrayal of a ruthless army brigadier is still talked of among cinema lovers.[10][11] In 2009, he starred in The Stoneman Murders where he played a police officer on the hunt for the Stoneman serial killer.[12] 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. He played a very crucial role in The Ghazi Attack as a Naval Captain based on an Indian Naval submarine, S21, intercepts a Pakistani submarine, PNS Ghazi, during routine surveillance and thwarts its mission of destroying INS Vikrant in 1971. He played a role as Vikram Singh in 2019's Penalty with co-actor Mohit Nain.

He impressed and gained more popularity with a role as Himmat Singh in 2020's Special Ops - a web series for Hotstar. In 2021, he again played the young version of Himmat Singh (R&AW leading officer) in Special Ops 1.5, the prequel part of Special Ops. OTT viewers admired his performance in this series.[13] Following the resounding success of espionage thriller Special Ops, Hotstar Specials is set to ring in a new form of storytelling with the launch of ‘Special Ops Universe’, created and conceptualized by film-maker Neeraj Pandey and Friday Storytellers.

Filmography

All films in Hindi unless otherwise stated.

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1995	Naseem	Islamic fundamentalist	Debut film[3]
1999	Bhopal Express	Verma
2002	Chhal	Karan Menon
2003	Paanch	Luke	Unreleased[7]
2003	Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi	Siddharth Tyabji	Released in theaters in 2005[14]
2004	Black Friday	DCP Rakesh Maria	Released in theaters in 2007[15]
2004	Deewaar	Sohail
2004	Silsiilay	Anwar
2005	Sarkar	Vishnu Nagare	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role
2005	Dansh	Mathew
2005	Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh	Akash
2005	Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena	Kaif
2006	Corporate	Ritesh Sahani	Nominated—GIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor
2006	Shoonya	Mahendra Naik
2007	Strangers	Mr Rai
2007	Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.	Partho Sen
2007	Life in a... Metro	Ranjeet	Nominated—IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role
2007	Go	Nagesh Rao
2008	Sarkar Raj	Vishnu Nagare
2008	Highway 203	Writer	Unreleased[16]
2008	Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam	Haldi Hasan
2008	Mumbai Meri Jaan	Suresh
2008	Via Darjeeling	Ankur Sharma
2008	Shaurya	Brigadier Rudra Pratap Singh
2008	Sirf	Gaurav
2008	Drona	Riz Razaida
2009	The Stoneman Murders	Sanjay Shelar
2009	Gulaal	Dukey Bana
2009	Aage se right	Janubhai/Baima Rashidul Kairi
2009	Sankat City	Guru
2010	Tera Kya Hoga Johnny	Inspector Shashikant Chiple
2010	Lafangey Parindey	Anna
2010	Benny And Babloo	Benny
2011	Bheja Fry 2	Ajit Talwar
2011	Bhindi Bazaar	Shroff
2012	Chaalis Chouraasi	Albert Pinto
2012	Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi	Salman
2012	Shahid	War saab
2013	Enemmy	Naeem Shaikh
2013	ABCD: Any Body Can Dance	Jehangir
2013	Udhayam NH4	ACP Manoj Menon IPS	Tamil film
2013	Ankur Arora Murder Case	Dr. Asthana
2014	Raja Natwarlal	Vardha Yadav
2014	Haider	Khurram Meer	Won—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor[17] Won—IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role Nominated—BIG Star Entertainment Awards for Most Entertaining Actor in a Thriller Film – Male Nominated—IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Screen Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role Nominated—Producers Guild Film Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role Nominated—Stardust Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role
2015	Baby	Bilal Khan
2015	Rahasya	CBI Officer Sunil Paraskar
2015	Bombay Velvet	Investigative Officer Vishwas Kulkarni
2015	Singh Is Bliing	Mark
2016	A Flying Jatt	Mr. Rakesh Malhotra
2016	Saat Uchakkey	Tejpal
2017	The Ghazi Attack	Captain Ranvijay Singh	Telugu / Hindi
2018	Dhaad	Ghelo	Gujarati;[18] released 17 years after being shot
2018	Vodka Diaries	ACP Ashwini Dixit
2018	Baa Baaa Black Sheep	ACP Shivraj Naik
2018	Phamous	Kadak Singh
2018	Ek Sangaychay		Marathi film
2019	San' 75 Pachattar[19]	Govind	Unreleased film
2019	Penalty	Vikram Singh	Netflix film
2020	Ray
2021	Shaadisthan		Disney+ Hotstar
TBA	Untitled film		Filming[20]
TBA	Firrkie[21]
TBA	3 Dev[22]	Satyavan

Television

Year	Show	Role
1995-1996	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
2005	Time Bomb 9/11	Prime Minister of India
2014	Yudh	Municipal Commissioner

Web series

Year	Title	Role
2018	The Great Indian Dysfunctional Family	Vikram Ranaut
2019	The Last Chapter
2020	Special OPS	Himmat Singh
2021	Ray	Inderashish[23]
2021	Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story	Himmat Singh

References

External links

• Kay Kay Menon at IMDb 
• Kay Kay Menon at Rotten Tomatoes
• Kay Kay Menon at Bollywood Hungama

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