Faissal Khan, the brother of Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, recently made headlines when he said that Aamir kept him confined to the house and told everyone he had lost his mind. Faissal later cut off all contact with his family after Aamir and his family denied his allegations, claiming they were false. At a press conference on August 18, Faissal now disclosed the reason for the family’s original “turn against him.”
Faissal Khan explains why his relatives referred to him as “mad.”
Faissal revealed that in August 2002, he got married to a woman, but they divorced in December of the same year. He added that after his divorce, his family pressured him to marry his aunt and said, “My family was pressuring me to marry my aunt, my mother’s first cousin. I never wanted that, but from that time, they started putting pressure on me to get married. I was focused on my work and not interested at all. Because of this, I had many arguments with my family. So I started living away from them, because whenever I met them, there would be fights about this, and I don’t like fighting. My family got angry, and my mother got angry, because I refused to marry my aunt.”
He added, “When I got upset with my family, I wrote a letter. I wrote about every family member’s story. Nikkhat, my elder sister, got married three times. Aamir Khan was married to Reena Dutta. He was having an affair with Jessica Hines, and they even had an illegitimate child out of wedlock. At that time, he was living with Kiran. I wrote all this in the letter, so they became angry with me. Then everyone turned against me and said, ‘Declare him mad.'”
All about the feud between Faisal Khan and Aamir Khan.
According to Faissal’s interview, his brother Aamir and his family confined him to the house for more than a year, claiming he had schizophrenia and was “a mad person and can harm society.” Following this, Aamir and his family released a joint statement in which they expressed their displeasure with what they called “hurtful and misleading” depictions of family members. Reena Datta, Junaid Khan, Ira Khan, Farhat Datta, Rajiv Datta, Kiran Rao, Santosh Hegde, Seher Hegde, Mansoor Khan, Nuzhat Khan, Imran Khan, Tina Fonseca, Zayn Marie Khan, and Pablo Khan were among the many family members who signed the declaration.
Later, Faissal took to Instagram and announced that he had cut all ties with his family and wrote, “With a heavy heart yet renewed courage, I wish to share that I have severed all family ties, as declared through a public notice. This step, though difficult, is essential for my healing and growth. Life now enters a new chapter of freedom, dignity, and self-discovery — one that I embrace with positivity, truth, and strength.”
Regarding the work of Faissal Khan
After making his big Bollywood debut in 1969 with Pyar Ka Mausam, Faissal went on to do films like Border Hindustan Ka, Madhosh, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, and more. His most recent appearance was in the Kannada murder thriller Oppanda, which came out in 2022 and starred J. D. Chakravarthy, Arjun Sarja, and Radhika Kumaraswamy.
