Trivia

He went to St. Mary's School, Mumbai, and then to St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Thereafter, he studied law at Siddharth College of Law.

Was involved with Moshumi Chatterjee.

Was involved with Deepti Naval in the early 80s.

Starred in the shelved bilingual movie "Kanchan Rekha" (Hindi) "Swambar"(Bengali). This was in 1982. Starring Naseeruddin Shah,Amol Palekar,Farooq Sheikh, Smita Patil,Girish Karnad,Geeta Siddhartha,Dina Pathak. Produced by Mrityunjoy Sarkar,Directed by Shankar Bhattacharya. The film was shelved when the producer died after kidney surgery.

His father was a lawyer.

Eldest of five children.

Starred in the shelved film, Nargis Films "Maa Ka Aanchal"(1990) Starring Suresh Oberoi, Farooq Shaikh,Kiran Juneja,Sudha Chandran,Jeet Upendra,Reeta Bhadhuri, Satyen Kappu, Produced by Asghar Ali, Directed by Dherendra Kumar.

Acted in the shelved film " Inshaa Allah" (1982) opposite Zarina Wahab, Co starring Vijay Anand. Directed by A. Shamsheer.

Starred in the shelved film Banwaas (1983).

Starred in the shelved TV serial Maan Gaye Huzoor (1995). Starring Farooq Shaikh, Goga Kapoor, Pallavi Joshi.

Honey Irani was planning to direct a film in 1984. She had discussed it with Farooq Sheikh. He had agreed. The film got shelved.

Starred in the shelved film Unit Combines's "Bahu Bina Ghar Suna"(1983) Starring Farooq Shaikh, Suresh Oberoi, Kajal Kiran. Shoma Anand,Music by Usha Khanna, Directed by Dilip Gulati .

Starred in the shelved movie Rajat Chitra's "Banwaas"(1983). Starring Farooq Sheikh,Moushami Chatterjee,Raj Babbar, Surinder Kaur,Sulbha Arya. Music by Kalyanji Anandji. Produced and Directed by Rajat Rakshit.

Starred in the shelved movie R.M. Movies "Tamasha"(1983) Starring Farooq Sheikh, Anita Raj,Utpal Dutt, Deven Verma, Music by Usha Khanna, Directed by Basu Chatterji.

Starred in the shelved movie Samir Films "Kavita"(1983) Starring Farooq Sheikh,Zarina Wahab, Chandrashekhar, Urmila Bhatt, Jagdeep, Madhu Malhotra.

Starred in the shelved movie Sonal Movietone's "Ateet"(1986) Starring Farooq Sheikh,Dimple Kapadia, Vijayendra Ghatge,Madhu Malhotra,Sayeed Jaffery, Music by Usha Khanna, Directed by Dayanand.

Starred in the shelved movie Monica Arts "Kharidar"(1985) Starring Rekha(Replaced by Poonam Dhillon),Naseeruddin Shah(Replaced by Farooq Sheikh),Amjad Khan,Written by Gulzar, Music by Khayyam, Directed by Meraj.

Club 60 2013 was his last release while he was alive passed away 21 days after its release.

Last film was Midnight Children 2014 released after his death.

Starred in the shelved movie "Hawayain" Starring Farooq Shaikh, Sadhana Singh.

Farooq Sheikh was offered a role of Sanjeev Kumar's son in Sholay. Farooq declined as he was doing a solo lead in Garam Hawa.