Shahrukh Khan (Hindi: शाहरुख़ ख़ान, Urdu: ‫ ;شاہ ُرخ خان‬born November 2, 1965),

sometimes credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian actor and a prominent Bollywood
figure, as well as a film producer and television host.

Khan began his career appearing in several television serials in the late 1980s. He made his
film debut in Deewana (1992). Since then, he has been part of numerous commercially
successful films and has earned critical acclaim for many of his performances. During his
years in the Indian film industry, Khan has won thirteen Filmfare Awards, seven of which are
in the Best Actor category.

Khan's films such as Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998),
Chak De India (2007), Om Shanti Om (2007) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) remain some
of Bollywood's biggest hits, while films like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001), Kal Ho Naa
Ho (2003), Veer-Zaara (2004) and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) have been top-grossing
Indian productions in the overseas markets, making him one of the most successful actors of
India.[2] Since 2000, Khan branched out into film production and television presenting as
well. He is the founder/owner of two production companies, Dreamz Unlimited and Red
Chillies Entertainment. In 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in
the world

Khan was born in 1965 to Muslim parents of Pathan descent in New Delhi, India.[4] His
father, Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar, British
India. According to Khan, his paternal grandfather was originally from Afghanistan.[5] His
mother, Lateef Fatima, was the adopted daughter of Major General Shah Nawaz Khan of the
Janjua Rajput clan, who served as a General in the Indian National Army of Subash Chandra
Bose.[6] Khan's father came to New Delhi from Qissa Khawani Bazaar in Peshawar before the
partition of India,[7] while his mother's family came from Rawalpindi, British India.[8] Khan
has an elder sister named Shehnaz.[9]

Growing up in Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood,[10] Khan attended St. Columba's School where
he was accomplished in sports, drama, and academics. He won the Sword of Honour, an
annual award given to the student who best represents the spirit of the school. Khan later
attended the Hansraj College (1985-1988) and earned his Bachelors degree in Economics
(honors). Though he pursued a Masters Degree in Mass Communications at Jamia Millia
Islamia, he later opted out to make his career in Bollywood.[11]

After the death of his parents, Khan moved to Mumbai in 1991.[12] In that same year, before
any of his films were released, he married Gauri Chibber (who is a Hindu) in a traditional
Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991.[13] They have two children, son Aryan (b.
1997) and daughter Suhana (b. 2000). According to Khan, while he strongly believes in
Allah, he also values his wife's religion. At home, his children follow both religions, with the
Qur'an being situated next to the Hindu gods.[14]

In 2005, Nasreen Munni Kabir produced a two-part documentary on Khan, titled The Inner
and Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan. Featuring his 2004 Temptations concert tour, the film
contrasted Khan's inner world of family and daily life with the outer world of his work. The
book Still Reading Khan, which details his family life, was released in 2006. Another book
by Anupama Chopra, "King of Bollywood: Shahrukh Khan and the seductive world of Indian
cinema", was released in 2007. This book described the world of Bollywood through Khan's
life.[15][16]
Khan has been awarded a number of honours. He was honoured with the Padma Shri, India's
fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India in 2005. In April 2007, a life-size
wax statue of Khan was installed at the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, London. Another
statue was installed at the Musée Grévin in Paris, the same year.[17] During the same year, he
was accorded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of the Arts and Literature) award by
the French government for his “exceptional career”.[18]

In October 2008, Khan was conferred the Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka which carries the
honorific Datuk (in similar fashion to "Sir" in British knighthood), by the Yang di-Pertua
Negeri Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob, the head of state of Malacca in Malaysia. Khan was
honoured for "promoting tourism in Malacca" by filming One Two Ka Four there in 2001.
Some were critical of this decision.[19] He was also honoured with an honorary doctorate in
arts and culture from Britain's University of Bedfordshire in 2009.[20]

Film career
Background

Khan studied acting under celebrated Theatre Director Barry John at Delhi's Theatre Action
Group (TAG). In 2007, John commented thus on his former pupil that, "The credit for the
phenomenally successful development and management of Shahrukh's career goes to the
superstar himself."[21] Khan made his acting debut in 1988 when he appeared in the television
series, Fauji, playing the role of Commando Abhimanyu Rai.[22] He went on to appear in
several other television serials, most notably in the 1989 serial, Aziz Mirza's Circus, which
depicted the life of circus performers.[23] The same year, Khan also had a minor role in the
made-for-television English-language film, In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones, which was
based on life at Delhi University and was written by Arundhati Roy.

1990s

Upon moving from New Delhi to Mumbai in 1991,[24] Khan made his Bollywood movie
debut in Deewana (1992). The movie became a box office hit, and launched his career in
Bollywood.[25] His performance won him a Filmfare Best Male Debut Award. He went on to
star in Maya Memsaab, which generated some controversy because of his appearance in an
"explicit" sex scene in the movie.[26]

In 1993, Khan won acclaim for his performances in villainous roles as an obsessive lover and
a murderer, respectively, in the box office hits, Darr and Baazigar.[27] Darr marked his first
collaboration with renowned film-maker Yash Chopra and his banner Yash Raj Films, the
largest production company in Bollywood. Baazigar, which saw Khan portraying an
ambiguous avenger who murders his girlfriend, shocked its Indian audience with an
unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula.[28] His performance won him his
first Filmfare Best Actor Award. In that same year, Khan played the role of a young musician
in Kundan Shah's Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, a performance that earned him a Filmfare Critics
Award for Best Performance. Khan maintains that this is his all-time favourite among the
movies he has acted in.[29] In 1994, Khan once again played an obsessive lover/psycho's role
in Anjaam, co-starring alongside Madhuri Dixit. Though the movie was not a box office
success, Khan's performance earned him the Filmfare Best Villain Award.[30]
In 1995, Khan starred in Aditya Chopra's directorial debut Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, a
major critical and commercial success, for which he won his second Filmfare Best Actor
Award.[31] In 2007, the film entered its twelfth year in Mumbai theaters. By then the movie
had grossed over 12 billion rupees, making it as one of India's biggest movie blockbusters.[32]
Earlier in the same year he found success in Rakesh Roshan's Karan Arjun which became the
second biggest hit of the year.

1996 was a disappointing year for Khan as all his movies released that year failed to do well
at the box office.[33] This was, however, followed by a comeback in 1997. He saw success
with Subhash

Subhash Ghai's social drama Pardes -- one of the biggest hits of the year—and Aziz Mirza's
comedy Yes Boss, a moderately successful feature.[34] His second project with Yash Chopra as
a director, Dil to Pagal Hai became that year's second highest-grossing movie, and he won his
third Filmfare Best Actor Award for his role as a stage director who falls in love with one of
his new actresses.[34]

In 1998, Khan starred in Karan Johar's directoial debut, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, which was the
biggest hit of the year.[35] His performance won him his fourth Best Actor award at the
Filmfare. He won critical praise for his performance in Mani Ratnam's Dil Se. The movie did
not do well at the Indian box office, though it was a commercial success overseas.[36] Khan's
only release in 1999, Baadshah, was an average grosser.[37]

2000s

Khan's success continued with Aditya Chopra's 2000 film, Mohabbatein, co-starring Amitabh
Bachchan. It did well at the box office, and Khan's performance as a college teacher won him
his second Critics Award for Best Performance. He also starred in Mansoor Khan's action film
Josh. The film starred Khan as the leader of a Christian gang in Goa and Aishwarya Rai as his
twin sister, and was also a box office success.[38] In that same year, Khan set up his own
production house, Dreamz Unlimited with Juhi Chawla (see below). Both Khan and Chawla
starred in the first movie of their production house, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani.[38] His work
with Karan Johar continued as he collaborated on the family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie
Gham which was the second biggest hit of the year. He also received favorable reviews for
his performance as Emperor Asoka in the historical epic, Asoka, a partly fictionalised account
of the life of Ashoka the Great (304 BC–232 BC).[39]

In 2002, Khan received acclaim for playing the title role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's award-
winning period romance, Devdas. It was the third Hindi movie adaptation of Sharat Chandra
Chattopadhyay's well-known novel of the same name, and surfaced as one of the biggest hits
of that year.[40] Khan also starred opposite Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit in the family-
drama Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam, which did well at the box office.[40] In 2003, Khan starred
in the moderately successful romantic drama, Chalte Chalte.[41] That same year, he starred in
the tearjerker, Kal Ho Naa Ho, written by Karan Johar and directed by Nikhil Advani. Khan's
performance in this movie as a man with a fatal heart disease was appreciated. The movie
proved to be one of the year's biggest hits in India and Bollywood's biggest hit in the overseas
markets.[41]
2004 was a particularly good year for Khan, both commercially and critically. He starred in
Farah Khan's directorial debut, the comedy Main Hoon Na. The movie did well at the box
office. He then played the role of an Indian officer, Veer Pratap Singh in Yash Chopra's love
saga Veer-Zaara, which was the biggest hit of 2004 in both India and overseas.[42] The film
relates the love story of Veer and Pakistani woman Zaara Haayat Khan, played by Preity
Zinta. Khan's performance in the film won him awards at several award ceremonies. In that
same year, he received critical acclaim for his performance in Ashutosh Gowariker's drama
Swades. He was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award for all three of his releases in
2004, winning it for Swades.[42]

In 2006, Khan collaborated with Karan Johar for the fourth time with the melodrama movie
Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. It did well in India and much more so in the overseas market,
becoming the biggest Bollywood hit in the overseas market of all-time.[43] His second release
that year saw him playing the title role in the action film Don, a remake of the 1978 hit Don.
The movie was a success.[43]

Khan's success continued with a few more highly popular films. One of his most successful
works was the multiple award-winning 2007 film, Chak De India, about the Indian women's
national hockey team. Earning over Rs 639 million, Chak De India became the third highest
grossing movie of 2007 in India and won yet another Filmfare Best Actor Award for Khan.[44]
The film was a major critical success.[45] In the same year Khan also starred in Farah Khan's
2007 film, Om Shanti Om. The film emerged as the year's highest grossing film in India and
the overseas market, and became India's highest grossing production ever up to that point.[44]
It earned him another nomination for Best Actor at the Filmfare ceremony. Khan's more
recent films include the 2008 release, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi which was a huge box office
success, and Billu.

As of 2009, Khan is filming My Name Is Khan, due for a February 2010 release. While on
one shoot in Los Angeles, along with his wife Gauri and director Karan Johar, he took a break
from filming to attend the 66th Golden Globe Awards, held in Los Angeles, California, on 11
January 2009.[46][47] Khan introduced Slumdog Millionaire along with a star from the film,
Freida Pinto.[48][49]

Producer
Khan turned producer when he set up a production company called Dreamz Unlimited with
Juhi Chawla and director Aziz Mirza in 1999. The first two of the films he produced and
starred in: Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000) and Asoka (2001) were box office failures.[39]
However, his third film as a producer and star, Chalte Chalte (2003), proved a box office hit.
[41]

In 2004, Khan set up another production company, Red Chillies Entertainment, and produced
and starred in Main Hoon Na, another hit.[42] The following year, he produced and starred in
the fantasy film Paheli, which did poorly.[50] It was, however, India's official entry to the
Academy Awards for consideration for Best Foreign Language Film, but it did not pass the
final selection. Also in 2005, Khan co-produced the supernatural horror film Kaal with Karan
Johar, and performed an item number for the film with Malaika Arora Khan. Kaal was
moderately successful at the box office.[50] His company has gone on to produce Om Shanti
Om (2007), in which he starred, and Billu (2009), in which he played a supporting role as a
Bollywood superstar.

Apart from film production, the company also has a visual effects studio known as Red
Chillies VFX. It has also ventured into television content production, with shows like, 'The
First Ladies', 'Ghar Ki Baat Hai', and 'Knights and Angels'. Television advertisements are
also produced by the company.[51]

In 2008, Red Chillies Entertainment became the owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders in the
BCCI-backed IPL cricket competition.

Television host
In 2007, Khan replaced Amitabh Bachchan as the host of the third series of the popular game
show Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.[52] The
previous had hosted the show for five years from 2000–05. On 22 January 2007, Kaun
Banega Crorepati aired with Khan as the new host and later ended on 19 April 2007.[53]

On 25 April 2008, Khan began hosting the game show Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?,
the Indian version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?,[54] whose last episode was
telecasted on 27 July 2008, with Lalu Prasad Yadav as the special guest.[55]

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