Arshi Khan

Khan was reportedly born in Afghanistan and belonged to a Pathan family of Bhopal although she has also clarified with another statement where it was her grandfather that was from Afghanistan and migrated to Bhopal.^[2][3] She and her family are possible said to have moved to India when Khan was four years old. Khan did her schooling and graduation at Bhopal. Later, Khan went to Mumbai to try her luck in acting and modelling.^[4] Khan was a qualified physiotherapist before she started pursuing a career in acting and modelling.^[5]

Recently, Khan opened up about her hardships moving to Mumbai after eviction from Bigg Boss 14.^[6]

She was chosen to portray a lead role in India's first mainline Bollywood 4D historical action film titled "The Last Emperor".^[7] She has also appeared in the Tamil film Malli Mishtu.^[4] In 2017, she was one of the participants in the reality television show Bigg Boss 11. She was earlier considered to participate in the last two seasons of the show.^[8] During her appearances on the show, she was Google India's second-most searched entertainer of 2017.^[9]

In 2018, Arshi featured in a Punjabi Music video- Nakhre.^[10] Khan has been featured in 5 music videos that include "Bandi", which has already gained 4.2 million on YouTube and Nain Nasheele which already has started to hit 2 million worldwide.

She was a participant in Bigg Boss 14, where she joined in as one of the four challenger participants.^[11]

Arshi joined The Great Khali's wrestling school CWE in 2021.^[12][13]

In February 2019, Arshi joined Indian National Congress,^[14] but later resigned in August due to professional commitments.^[15]

In September 2015, Khan claimed to be in a relationship with Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi.^{[citation needed]} In the same year she said that self-proclaimed spiritual leader Radhe Maa ran a prostitution ring, and that she had been approached to join it.^[16]

In 2016, the mufti of a madrassa in Pakistan issued a fatwa against Khan after she posted pictures of herself to Facebook wearing a bikini with a hijab, with another photo of herself in a burkha, after which her Facebook account was blocked.^[17]

During her stay in Bigg Boss house, an arrest warrant was issued against her by a court in Jalandhar, which according to the sources was due to allegations.^[18] Also, during Khan stay actress-model Gehana Vasisth claimed that Khan has been faking everything about her age, qualifications, and relationship with Shahid Afridi and is married to a 50-year-old man.^[19]

In 2018, Khan claimed that she was boosted out of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on Vikas Gupta behest and fan made theories comparing the situation Khan was in with Shilpa Shinde previous controversy with the referenced producer.^[20]

In 2021, Khan was criticised and trolled for copying Lady Gaga and wearing a rip-off of her 2020 MTV Video Music Awards dress at Bigg Boss 14 afterparty.

In March 2021, Khan was being criticised badly after posting a post about Mufti Menk and said that he's an Islamic salesman.^[21][22]