Farah Kahn grew up around the environs of the Bollywood film industry. Her father was a film director in the 50s and 60s and her older brother is the actor and dance director Sajid Khan. Farah has no formal dance training and she never had childhood plans to be a part of Bollywood. One day she was watching MTV and on came Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video, it was a revelation for Farah and changed her life.

* "I have no formal training in dance but I have been getting my dancing lessons from Michael Jackson, Gene Kelly and the other music greats. I have got my training in choreography by watching Vijay Anand films. "

She learned MJs moves and started to dance at family functions and then competitions. From one dance competition she gathered contestants and started a dance company called, "The Sphinx". In 1992 she was asked by Mansoor Khan to be the choreographer of his next film "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar" starring Aamir Khan. Farah was on her way and from that point there was no looking back.