Jaideep Ahlawat is a critically acclaimed actor most noted for playing Shahid Khan in Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur and the baddie, AK 74, in Commando, directed by Dilip Ghosh. His other films inlcude Priyadarshan-directed Khatta Meetha (produced by Akshay Kumar), Meeruthiya Gangsters (directed by Zeishan Quadri), Priyadarshan’s Aakrosh (with Ajay Devgn) and Kamal Hasan’s Vishwaroopam. This year, he was last seen in the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Raees in which he played Nawab.