Mohammad Nazim Khilji (born 1 January 1984) is an Indian model and actor recognized for his work in Hindi television. He made his television debut with ''

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''. He rose to prominence playing Ahem Parag Modi and Jaggi Parag Modi in

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's popular soap opera ''

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'' (2010–17), one of the longest running shows in India In 2020, Nazim reprised the same double role in ''

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'' in order to promote the show. From August 2021 to June 2022, Nazim played the main male lead of Saksham Modi in Star Bharat's ''

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''.

Early life

Nazim was born on 1 January 1986 in

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. Television actors

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and Ather Habib are his cousins.

Career

Early days and breakthrough (2009–17)

Nazim made his entry into Hindi television industry with an unknown role on Star Plus's fantasy based series ''

'', created by

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, in 2009 and then signed an episodic of

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's crime thriller ''

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'' in 2010. His biggest breakthrough came when he bagged his first lead role as Ahem Modi for continuously six years (2010–16) in Star Plus's one of the most popular soap operas, ''

'' opposite

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. In 2015, he also debuted into

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with the horror film ''Plot No. 666''. He was a contestant on ''

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'' too. In May 2016, Nazim quit ''Saath Nibhaana Saathiya'' as he didn't wanted to play a maternal grandfather onscreen. However, in August 2016, he returned to the show playing a new character of Ahem's legitimate twin brother Jaggi Modi and remained present in it until its off air in July 2017. Venturing into

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, he appeared in the Punjabi film ''Big Daddy'' (2017).

Further works (2017–present)

In August 2018, Nazim reteamed with Bhattacharjee in an episodic of &TV's '' Laal Ishq''. Few days later, he found his first antagonistic role in

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's well performing drama series ''

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'' as Gumaan Singh Rajvanshi before his role ended the very next month. In January 2019, he was seen opposite Sreejita De in another episodic of ''Laal Ishq''. That same month, Nazim entered Colors TV's ''

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'' as the vengeful Samru Singh Vaghela. In July 2019, he joined the same channel's love-triangle ''

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'' as the greedy and evil Asgar Akhtar Mirza. He quitted the show in November 2019 amicably. For the first 31 episodes of ''

''—the second season of ''Saath Nibhaana Saathiya''—Nazim reprised his role as Ahem and Jaggi Modi from October to November 2020 thus reuniting with Bhattacharjee. Since August 2021, Nazim has been playing the main male lead role Saksham Modi in Star Bharat's ''

''.

Television

Filmography

Discography

Awards

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nazim, Mohammad 1986 births Living people People from Punjab, India Indian male television actors Indian male soap opera actors Male actors in Punjabi cinema