Shah Rukh Khan also known as SRK (born Shahrukh Khan; 2 November 1965), is an Indian film actor, producer and television personality. Referred to in the media as "Baadshah of Bollywood", "King of Bollywood" or "King Khan", he has appeared in over 80 Hindi films in genres including romance, action and comedy. His work in Bollywood has earned him numerous accolades, including fourteen Filmfare Awards from thirty nominations. For his contribution to film, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, and the Government of France has awarded him both the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Légion d'honneur. Khan was the second-richest actor in the world in 2014, with a net worth of US$600 million.
Khan started his career in theatre and appeared in several television series in the late 1980s. He made his Bollywood debut in 1992 with Deewana. Early in his career, Khan was recognised for his unconventional choice of portraying negative roles in the films Darr (1993), Baazigar (1993), and Anjaam (1994). He then rose to prominence by playing a series of roles in romantic dramas, including Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001). Khan later earned critical acclaim for his portrayal of an alcoholic man in Devdas (2002), a NASA scientist in Swades (2004), a hockey coach in Chak De! India (2007), and an autistic man in My Name Is Khan (2010). Thirteen of the films he has acted in have accumulated gross earnings of over INR1 billion (US$16 million) worldwide, making him one of the most successful leading actors of Hindi cinema.
Khan is currently co-chairman of the motion picture production company Red Chillies Entertainment and its subsidiaries, and is a co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders. In 2007, he made his debut as a television presenter with the Star Plus game show Kaun Banega Crorepati. Media often label him "Brand SRK" because of his brand endorsement and entrepreneurship ventures. Khan has also been involved in philanthropic endeavours related to health care, relief funds, and children's education—for which he was honoured with UNESCO's Pyramide con Marni award in 2011. He is considered to be one of the biggest film stars in India and has a massive fan following; the Los Angeles Times described him as perhaps the world's biggest movie star.He regularly features in listings of the most influential people in Indian culture and in 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world.
Early life and background
Khan was born on 2 November 1965 in New Delhi. He spent the first five years of his life in Mangalore where his maternal grandfather Ifthikar Ahmed served as chief engineer of the port in the 1960s.According to Khan, his paternal grandfather was from Afghanistan. Khan's father Meer Taj Mohammed Khan, an ethnic Pashtun, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar, British India (present-day Pakistan), a follower of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and was affiliated with the All Indian National Congress. He moved to New Delhi before the 1947 partition of India. Khan's mother Lateef Fatima was the daughter of a senior government engineer.[16][b] His parents met when his mother was involved in an auto accident, and his father (who is 13 years older than she) rescued her, took her to the hospital, and donated blood. They were married in 1959. Khan described himself on Twitter as "half Hyderabadi (mother), half Pathan (father), some Kashmiri (grandmother)". His cousin in Peshawar claims that the family is actually of Hindkowan origin, and also contradicts the claim that his grandfather Jan Muhammad was from Afghanistan.
Khan grew up in the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood of Delhi. His father had several business ventures including a restaurant, and the family lived a middle class life in rented apartments. Khan attended St. Columba's School where he received the school's highest award, the Sword of Honour. In his youth, he acted in stage plays and was popular for imitating Bollywood actors. One of his childhood friends and acting partners was Amrita Singh, who later became a Bollywood actress. His favourite actors at the time were Mumtaz and Amitabh Bachchan. Khan enrolled at Hansraj College (1985–1988) to earn his Bachelors degree in Economics, but spent much of his time at Delhi's Theatre Action Group (TAG),where he studied acting under the mentorship of theatre director Barry John. He started studying for a Masters Degree in Mass Communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, but left to pursue his career. He also attended the National School of Drama, Delhi during his early career in Bollywood. His father died of cancer when Khan was in his mid teens,[c] and his mother died in 1991 from complications of diabetes.
Khan married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991, after a six year courtship. According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Islam, he also values his wife's religion. At home, his children follow both religions; the Qur'an is situated next to the Hindu deities. They have a son Aryan (born 1997) and a daughter Suhana (born 2000). In 2013 they became parents of a third child named AbRam through a surrogate mother.Khan has an older sister Shahnaz Lalarukh who was born in 1960. After the death of their parents, she went into depression and Khan took on the responsibility of caring for her. Shahnaz continues to live with the Khans in their Mumbai mansion.
Popularity and wealth
Khan is considered one of the biggest movie stars in the world and is referred to by the media as "King Khan", "The Baadshah of Bollywood", and "The King of Bollywood".In 2011, Steven Zeitchik of the Los Angeles Times said, "He is the biggest movie star you've never heard of. And perhaps the world's biggest movie star, period."[8] His popularity in India has been attributed to his emergence during the liberalisation and changing economic scenario of the 1990s; he was able to personify an ambitious, assertive and yet feel-good India. His popularity reaches beyond India as well; from 1989 through 2003, he starred in seven of the top ten Hindi films in the U.K.
Shah Rukh Khan posing outside at a film festival
Khan at the International Film Festival of Marrakech in 2012
Khan is the object of a sometimes fanatical following, with a fan base estimated to number over one billion. On streets of India, posters of him are sold next to those of religious deities, and shrines have been built in his honour. Fans have changed their name to match his, sent him letters written in blood, and wait outside his home hoping for a sighting. In August 2009 Khan was detained at the Newark, New Jersey airport when a name similar to his "popped up on the computer". When he was taken to a room for questioning, some officers and other detainees recognised him and asked for autographs.
Khan is one of the wealthiest and most powerful celebrities in India. In 2009, his net worth was estimated at over US$540 million. In 2013, according to the Hurun Report, Khan was placed in the 114th position on a list of the wealthiest Indians, with personal assets of over $400 million. In 2014, the firm Wealth X ranked Khan second in their listing of the richest actors in the world, with an estimated net worth of $600 million. Khan was the only Bollywood actor to feature in the list. Khan was placed at number one on Box Office India's list of top actors for the first time in 1994, and repeated the feat in 1995 and 1998, and from 2002 to 2008. For his work in the 2000s, Khan was considered one of the ten "Most Powerful Entertainers of the Decade" by FICCI. In 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world. Khan was placed first on Forbes India's "Celebrity 100 list", a list based on the income and popularity of Indian celebrities, for 2012 and 2013. Khan owns several properties in India and abroad. Mannat, his residence in Mumbai, is a tourist spot and a heritage building deemed important to the townscape and hence exempt from demolition. Khan owns a house in New Delhi, a GB£20 million apartment in London, and INR4 billion (US$65 million) of property in Dubai that includes a villa on the Palm Jumeirah.
Public image
Khan was given the birth name Shahrukh Khan, but he prefers his name to be written as Shah Rukh Khan, and is commonly referred to by the abbreviation SRK. He is well known for his devotion to his work and his ability to commit heavily to each role. Director Aziz Mirza describes Khan as a natural actor who has "a rawness in him" and "a crowd appeal, even when he was just with friends". Despite the adulation, Khan has often been criticised for his lack of subtlety in performing roles. In the book Everybody Wants a Hit: 10 Mantras of Success in Bollywood Cinema, author Derek Bose wrote, "The joke going around then was that Shahrukh Khan had no more than five expressions to play about with and by cleverly juggling them in film after film, made his mark as a superstar". Rival actors have been known to publicly accuse him of overacting.
Khan's perceived typecasting in romantic roles has met with polarised reactions from commentators; the author Arnab Ray wrote that Khan "became trapped in the conventional romantic lover-boy image, continuing to essay, over the years, a series of roles that were mind-numbingly alike". Aseem Chhabra of Rediff.com said he "plays the romantic man with such pizzazz and in the old-world style that he is treat to watch, as he woos the hearts of his co-stars and his audience!" Khan's non-macho persona, and close ties with director Karan Johar, have led to persistent media rumors about his sexuality, which has made for a rocky relationship with fan magazines. Regardless, the media has bestowed many honours on Khan, and he is one of the most celebrated movie stars in India.
A 2007 poll by the magazine Eastern Eye named Khan the sexiest Asian man; he was ranked third in the same magazine's polls in 2008 and 2011. He has regularly featured among the top ten on The Times of India 's list of the 50 most desirable men in India. Media have said his dimples are one of his distinctive physical features. Khan has also achieved recognition as a style icon in India. In 2011, the British edition of GQ magazine featured him as one of the best dressed men in the world. The following year, the Indian edition of GQ included Khan in their listing of Bollywood's 11 best dressed men. In 2009, he modeled at both the Lakme Fashion Week and the India Couture Fashion Week.
Khan started his career in theatre and appeared in several television series in the late 1980s. He made his Bollywood debut in 1992 with Deewana. Early in his career, Khan was recognised for his unconventional choice of portraying negative roles in the films Darr (1993), Baazigar (1993), and Anjaam (1994). He then rose to prominence by playing a series of roles in romantic dramas, including Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001). Khan later earned critical acclaim for his portrayal of an alcoholic man in Devdas (2002), a NASA scientist in Swades (2004), a hockey coach in Chak De! India (2007), and an autistic man in My Name Is Khan (2010). Thirteen of the films he has acted in have accumulated gross earnings of over INR1 billion (US$16 million) worldwide, making him one of the most successful leading actors of Hindi cinema.
Khan is currently co-chairman of the motion picture production company Red Chillies Entertainment and its subsidiaries, and is a co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders. In 2007, he made his debut as a television presenter with the Star Plus game show Kaun Banega Crorepati. Media often label him "Brand SRK" because of his brand endorsement and entrepreneurship ventures. Khan has also been involved in philanthropic endeavours related to health care, relief funds, and children's education—for which he was honoured with UNESCO's Pyramide con Marni award in 2011. He is considered to be one of the biggest film stars in India and has a massive fan following; the Los Angeles Times described him as perhaps the world's biggest movie star.He regularly features in listings of the most influential people in Indian culture and in 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world.
Early life and background
Khan was born on 2 November 1965 in New Delhi. He spent the first five years of his life in Mangalore where his maternal grandfather Ifthikar Ahmed served as chief engineer of the port in the 1960s.According to Khan, his paternal grandfather was from Afghanistan. Khan's father Meer Taj Mohammed Khan, an ethnic Pashtun, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar, British India (present-day Pakistan), a follower of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and was affiliated with the All Indian National Congress. He moved to New Delhi before the 1947 partition of India. Khan's mother Lateef Fatima was the daughter of a senior government engineer.[16][b] His parents met when his mother was involved in an auto accident, and his father (who is 13 years older than she) rescued her, took her to the hospital, and donated blood. They were married in 1959. Khan described himself on Twitter as "half Hyderabadi (mother), half Pathan (father), some Kashmiri (grandmother)". His cousin in Peshawar claims that the family is actually of Hindkowan origin, and also contradicts the claim that his grandfather Jan Muhammad was from Afghanistan.
Khan grew up in the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood of Delhi. His father had several business ventures including a restaurant, and the family lived a middle class life in rented apartments. Khan attended St. Columba's School where he received the school's highest award, the Sword of Honour. In his youth, he acted in stage plays and was popular for imitating Bollywood actors. One of his childhood friends and acting partners was Amrita Singh, who later became a Bollywood actress. His favourite actors at the time were Mumtaz and Amitabh Bachchan. Khan enrolled at Hansraj College (1985–1988) to earn his Bachelors degree in Economics, but spent much of his time at Delhi's Theatre Action Group (TAG),where he studied acting under the mentorship of theatre director Barry John. He started studying for a Masters Degree in Mass Communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, but left to pursue his career. He also attended the National School of Drama, Delhi during his early career in Bollywood. His father died of cancer when Khan was in his mid teens,[c] and his mother died in 1991 from complications of diabetes.
Khan married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991, after a six year courtship. According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Islam, he also values his wife's religion. At home, his children follow both religions; the Qur'an is situated next to the Hindu deities. They have a son Aryan (born 1997) and a daughter Suhana (born 2000). In 2013 they became parents of a third child named AbRam through a surrogate mother.Khan has an older sister Shahnaz Lalarukh who was born in 1960. After the death of their parents, she went into depression and Khan took on the responsibility of caring for her. Shahnaz continues to live with the Khans in their Mumbai mansion.
Popularity and wealth
Khan is considered one of the biggest movie stars in the world and is referred to by the media as "King Khan", "The Baadshah of Bollywood", and "The King of Bollywood".In 2011, Steven Zeitchik of the Los Angeles Times said, "He is the biggest movie star you've never heard of. And perhaps the world's biggest movie star, period."[8] His popularity in India has been attributed to his emergence during the liberalisation and changing economic scenario of the 1990s; he was able to personify an ambitious, assertive and yet feel-good India. His popularity reaches beyond India as well; from 1989 through 2003, he starred in seven of the top ten Hindi films in the U.K.
Shah Rukh Khan posing outside at a film festival
Khan at the International Film Festival of Marrakech in 2012
Khan is the object of a sometimes fanatical following, with a fan base estimated to number over one billion. On streets of India, posters of him are sold next to those of religious deities, and shrines have been built in his honour. Fans have changed their name to match his, sent him letters written in blood, and wait outside his home hoping for a sighting. In August 2009 Khan was detained at the Newark, New Jersey airport when a name similar to his "popped up on the computer". When he was taken to a room for questioning, some officers and other detainees recognised him and asked for autographs.
Khan is one of the wealthiest and most powerful celebrities in India. In 2009, his net worth was estimated at over US$540 million. In 2013, according to the Hurun Report, Khan was placed in the 114th position on a list of the wealthiest Indians, with personal assets of over $400 million. In 2014, the firm Wealth X ranked Khan second in their listing of the richest actors in the world, with an estimated net worth of $600 million. Khan was the only Bollywood actor to feature in the list. Khan was placed at number one on Box Office India's list of top actors for the first time in 1994, and repeated the feat in 1995 and 1998, and from 2002 to 2008. For his work in the 2000s, Khan was considered one of the ten "Most Powerful Entertainers of the Decade" by FICCI. In 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world. Khan was placed first on Forbes India's "Celebrity 100 list", a list based on the income and popularity of Indian celebrities, for 2012 and 2013. Khan owns several properties in India and abroad. Mannat, his residence in Mumbai, is a tourist spot and a heritage building deemed important to the townscape and hence exempt from demolition. Khan owns a house in New Delhi, a GB£20 million apartment in London, and INR4 billion (US$65 million) of property in Dubai that includes a villa on the Palm Jumeirah.
Public image
Khan was given the birth name Shahrukh Khan, but he prefers his name to be written as Shah Rukh Khan, and is commonly referred to by the abbreviation SRK. He is well known for his devotion to his work and his ability to commit heavily to each role. Director Aziz Mirza describes Khan as a natural actor who has "a rawness in him" and "a crowd appeal, even when he was just with friends". Despite the adulation, Khan has often been criticised for his lack of subtlety in performing roles. In the book Everybody Wants a Hit: 10 Mantras of Success in Bollywood Cinema, author Derek Bose wrote, "The joke going around then was that Shahrukh Khan had no more than five expressions to play about with and by cleverly juggling them in film after film, made his mark as a superstar". Rival actors have been known to publicly accuse him of overacting.
Khan's perceived typecasting in romantic roles has met with polarised reactions from commentators; the author Arnab Ray wrote that Khan "became trapped in the conventional romantic lover-boy image, continuing to essay, over the years, a series of roles that were mind-numbingly alike". Aseem Chhabra of Rediff.com said he "plays the romantic man with such pizzazz and in the old-world style that he is treat to watch, as he woos the hearts of his co-stars and his audience!" Khan's non-macho persona, and close ties with director Karan Johar, have led to persistent media rumors about his sexuality, which has made for a rocky relationship with fan magazines. Regardless, the media has bestowed many honours on Khan, and he is one of the most celebrated movie stars in India.
A 2007 poll by the magazine Eastern Eye named Khan the sexiest Asian man; he was ranked third in the same magazine's polls in 2008 and 2011. He has regularly featured among the top ten on The Times of India 's list of the 50 most desirable men in India. Media have said his dimples are one of his distinctive physical features. Khan has also achieved recognition as a style icon in India. In 2011, the British edition of GQ magazine featured him as one of the best dressed men in the world. The following year, the Indian edition of GQ included Khan in their listing of Bollywood's 11 best dressed men. In 2009, he modeled at both the Lakme Fashion Week and the India Couture Fashion Week.
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