Gulfam Khan

Biography

Born in the city of Mumbai, as it was then called Bombay, to parents both Pathan who were settled in the city. Her family hailed from Punjab in Tarn Taran sahib district before the partition. Her grandfather migrated in the 1920s. Father was a businessman and his father was a land developer, mother was a housewife and her father worked for the Portugal customs. She took to the stage with passion and acted, directed and wrote plays as an amateur, She got the chance to share stage with wonderful people from the industry where she learnt the ropes. Till the age of 30 she followed her passion till it did not become a dream to be shared with the world. She started acting for television with Lipstick- the serial and there has been no looking back since. She took up story writing as a hobby and in 2005 wrote her first script for a friend, unfortunately the movie did not see the light if the day. By then she had learned a new trade and ghost wrote for a few writers in the following couple of years. In 2008 she was approached to write the dialogues of Jennifer Lynch directed Mallika Sherawat and Irrfan Khan starrer ‘Hisss’… now in 2013 she is ready with 7 full written scripts and waiting for ‘Action’ on them. She has also been a part of the comedy circus season one team as a writer and her second film as a writer is now on floor after “Hissss”.