Shah Rukh Khan Biography – an Indian actor and the King of Bollywood

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Real Name:	Shah Rukh Khan
Profession:	Indian Actor
Birthplace:	New Delhi, India
Spouse:	Gauri Chhibber
Age:	57

Shah Rukh Khan (born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi films. Referred to in the media as the “Baadshah of Bollywood” and “King Khan”, he has appeared in more than 90 films and earned numerous accolades, including 14 Filmfare Awards. He has been awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India, as well as the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Legion of Honour by the Government of France. Khan has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide. In terms of audience size and income, several media outlets have described him as one of the most successful film stars in the world. Many of his films thematize Indian national identity and connections with diaspora communities, or gender, racial, social, and religious differences and grievances.

Khan began his career with appearances in several television series in the late 1980s and made his Bollywood debut in 1992 with Deewana. He was initially recognized for playing villainous roles in the films Baazigar (1993) and Darr (1993). Khan established himself by starring in a series of top-grossing romantic films, including Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Mohabbatein (2000), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham… (2001), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Veer-Zaara (2004) and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006). He earned critical acclaim for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Devdas (2002), a NASA scientist in Swades (2004), and a hockey coach in Chak De! India (2007) and a man with Asperger syndrome in My Name Is Khan (2010). Further commercial successes came with the romantic dramas Om Shanti Om (2007) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008), and with his expansion to comedies in Chennai Express (2013) and Happy New Year (2014). Following a brief setback and hiatus, Khan made a career comeback with the action film Pathaan (2023), which became the second-highest-grossing Hindi release.

As of 2015, Khan is co-chairman of the motion picture production company Red Chillies Entertainment and its subsidiaries and is the co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders and the Caribbean Premier League team Trinbago Knight Riders. The media often label him as “Brand SRK” because of his many endorsement and entrepreneurship ventures. He is a frequent television presenter and stage show performer. Khan’s philanthropic endeavors have provided health care and disaster relief, and he was honored with UNESCO’s Pyramide con Marni award in 2011 for his support of children’s education and the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award in 2018 for advocating for women’s and children’s rights in India. He regularly features in listings of the most influential people in Indian culture, and in 2008, Newsweek named him one of their fifty most powerful people in the world. In 2022, Khan was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time in a readers’ poll by Empire, and in 2023, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Shah Rukh Khan Biography
Born	Shahrukh Khan 2 November 1965 (age 57) New Delhi, India
Alma mater	Hansraj College (BA)
Occupations	Actor film producer television personality businessman
Years active	1988–present
Works	Full list
Spouse	Gauri Chhibber (m. 1991)​
Children	3, including Aryan Khan
Awards	Full list
Honours	Padma Shri (2005) Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2007) Légion d’honneur (2014)
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Early life and family (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

Parents

Shah Rukh Khan’s father, Mir Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar who campaigned alongside the Khudai Khidmatgar, a nonviolent resistance movement led by Abdul Ghaffar Khan that sought a united and independent India. Mir was a follower of Abdul Ghaffar Khan and affiliated with the Indian National Congress. He was also the cousin of the major general in the Indian National Army Shah Nawaz Khan. According to Khan his paternal grandfather, Mir Jan Muhammad Khan, was an ethnic Pashtun (Pathan) from Afghanistan. However, his paternal cousins in Peshawar later clarified that the family speaks Hindko and is originally from Kashmir, from where they settled in Peshawar centuries back, contradicting the claim that his grandfather was a Pashtun from Afghanistan. As of 2010, Khan’s paternal family was still living in the Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshawar’s Qissa Khwani Bazaar.

In 1946, Mir moved to Delhi to study law at Delhi University. When the partition of India occurred in 1947, he was forced to stay in Delhi and did not return to Peshawar until many years later. Khan’s mother, Lateef Fatima, a magistrate, was the daughter of a senior government engineer. His parents were married in 1959.

Early life (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

Khan was born on 2 November 1965 into a Muslim family in New Delhi. He spent the first five years of his life in Mangalore, where his maternal grandfather, Iftikhar Ahmed, served as the chief engineer of the port in the 1960s. Khan has described himself on Twitter as “half Hyderabadi (mother), half Pathan (father), and some Kashmiri (grandmother)”.

His father died of cancer in 1981, and his mother died in 1991 from complications of diabetes. After the death of their parents, his older sister, Shahnaz Lalarukh (born 1960) fell into a depressed state and Khan took on the responsibility of caring for her. Shahnaz continues to live with her brother and his family in their Mumbai mansion.

Filmography (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Feature films

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1992	Deewana	Raja Sahai
	Chamatkar	Sunder Srivastava
	Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman	Raj Mathur
	Dil Aashna Hai	Karan Singh
1993	Maya Memsaab	Lalit Kumar
	Pehla Nasha	Himself	Cameo appearance
	King Uncle	Anil Bhansal
	Baazigar	Ajay Sharma / Vicky Malhotra
	Darr	Rahul Mehra
1994	Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa	Sunil
	Anjaam	Vijay Agnihotri
1995	Karan Arjun	Arjun Singh / Vijay Singh Sharma
	Zamaana Deewana	Rahul Malhotra
	Guddu	Guddu Bahadur
	Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India!	Hero
	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge	Raj Malhotra
	Ram Jaane	Ram Jaane
	Trimurti	Romi Singh
1996	English Babu Desi Mem	Gopal Mayur / Hari Mayur / Vikram Mayur
	Chaahat	Roop Rathore
	Army	Major Arjun Singh
	Dushman Duniya Ka	Badru	Cameo appearance
1997	Gudgudee	Himself	Cameo appearance
	Koyla	Shankar Thakur
	Yes Boss	Rahul Joshi
	Pardes	Arjun Sagar
	Dil To Pagal Hai	Rahul
1998	Duplicate	Bablu Chaudhry / Manu Dada
	Achanak	Himself	Cameo appearance
	Dil Se..	Amarkant Verma
	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Rahul Khanna
1999	Baadshah	Raj (Baadshah)
2000	Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani	Ajay Bakshi	Also producer
	Hey Ram	Amjad Khan	Simmultaneously shot in Tamil
	Josh	Max “Maxy” Dias
	Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega	Rahul	Cameo appearance
	Mohabbatein	Raj Aryan Malhotra
	Gaja Gamini	Himself	Cameo appearance
2001	One 2 Ka 4	Arun Verma
	Aśoka	Ashoka Maurya (Pawan)	Also producer
	Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…	Rahul Y. Raichand
2002	Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam	Gopal
	Devdas	Devdas Mukherjee
	Shakti: The Power	Jai Singh
	Saathiya	Yeshwant Rao	Cameo appearance
2003	Chalte Chalte	Raj Mathur	Also producer
	Kal Ho Naa Ho	Aman Mathur
2004	Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke	Dushant
	Main Hoon Na	Ram Prasad Sharma
	Veer-Zaara	Veer Pratap Singh
	Swades	Mohan Bhargav
2005	Kuchh Meetha Ho Jaye	Himself	Cameo appearance
	Kaal	Himself	Cameo appearance in song ”Kaal Dhamal”Also producer
	Silsiilay	Sutradhar	Cameo appearance
	Paheli	Kishanlal / The Ghost
2006	Alag	Himself	Cameo appearance in song ”Sabse Alag”
	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Dev Saran
	Don: The Chase Begins Again	Mark “Don” Donald / Vijay Pal
	I See You	Himself	Cameo appearance in song ”Subah Subah”
2007	Chak De! India	Kabir Khan
	Heyy Babyy	Raj Malhotra	Cameo appearance in song ”Mast Kalandar”
	Om Shanti Om	Om Kapoor (O. K.) / Om Prakash “Omi” Makhija
2008	Krazzy 4	Himself	Cameo appearance in song ”Break Free”
	Bhoothnath	Aditya Sharma	Cameo appearance
	Shaurya	Voiceover
	Kismat Konnection	Narrator
	Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	Surinder Sahni / Raj Kapoor
2009	Luck by Chance	Himself	Cameo appearance
	Billu	Sahir Khan
2010	Dulha Mil Gaya	Pawan Raj Gandhi	Cameo appearance
	My Name Is Khan	Rizwan Khan
	Shahrukh Bola “Khoobsurat Hai Tu”	Himself	Cameo appearance
2011	Always Kabhi Kabhi	Himself	Cameo appearance in song ”Antenna”
	Love Breakups Zindagi	Himself	Cameo appearance
	Ra.One	G.One / Shekhar Subramanium
	Don 2	Mark “Don” Donald
2012	Jab Tak Hai Jaan	Samar Anand
2013	Bombay Talkies	Himself	Cameo appearance in song ”Apna Bombay Talkies”
	Chennai Express	Rahul Y. Y. Mithaiwala
2014	Bhoothnath Returns	Aditya Sharma	Cameo appearance
	Happy New Year	Chandramohan “Charlie” Manohar Sharma
2015	Dilwale	Raj “Kaali” Bakshi / Ramlal
2016	Fan	Aryan Khanna / Gaurav Chandna
	Ae Dil Hai Mushkil	Tahir Taliyar Khan	Cameo appearance
	Dear Zindagi	Dr. Jehangir “Jug” Khan
2017	Raees	Raees Aalam
	Tubelight	Gogo Pasha	Cameo appearance
	Jab Harry Met Sejal	Harinder “Harry” Singh Nehra
2018	Zero	Bauaa Singh
2019	The Zoya Factor	Narrator
2022	Rocketry: The Nambi Effect	Himself	Cameo appearance
	Laal Singh Chaddha	Himself	Cameo appearance
	Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva	Mohan Bhargav	Cameo appearance
2023	Pathaan	Pathaan
	Jawan	Vikram Rathore / Azaad Rathore
	Tiger 3 †	Pathaan	Cameo appearance
	Dunki †	TBA	Filming

Documentary films

Year	Title	Role
2002	Bollywood for Beginners	Himself
2005	The Inner and Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan	Himself
2010	Living with a Superstar – Shahrukh Khan	Himself
2011	Mughal-E-Azam – A Tribute by a son to his father	Narrator
2014	Living with KKR	Himself

Television (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

As an actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Fauji	Abhimanyu Rai	13 episodes
	Dil Dariya	Nandu	12 episodes
1989	Umeed	Anand Gupta
	Mahan Karz	Kanwar Singh	Television film
	Wagle Ki Duniya	Himself	Episode: “Police Station”
1989–1990	Circus	Shekharan	19 episodes
1989	In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones	Senior	Television film
	Doosra Keval	Keval	13 episodes
1991	Idiot	Pawan Raghurajan	4-part miniseries
1993	Rajani	Himself	2 episodes
2020	The Forgotten Army – Azaadi Ke Liye	Narrator	Miniseries
	Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives	Himself	Reality show; episode 8
2023	The Romantics	Himself	Documentary series

As a host

Year	Title	Notes
2003	48th Filmfare Awards	Television special
2004	49th Filmfare Awards
2005	6th International Indian Film Academy Awards
2006	2nd Global Indian Film Awards
2007	52nd Filmfare Awards
	Kaun Banega Crorepati	Game show; season 3
2008	53rd Filmfare Awards	Television special
	Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?	Game show
2010	16th Star Screen Awards	Television special
	55th Filmfare Awards
	Indian Premiere League Awards
	Sahara India Sports Awards 2010
2011	17th Star Screen Awards
	Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout	Game show
2012	18th Colors Screen Awards	Television special
	57th Filmfare Awards
	Zee Cine Awards 2012
2013	19th Colors Screen Awards
	58th Filmfare Awards
	14th International Indian Film Academy Awards
2014	20th Life OK Screen Awards
2015	21st Life OK Screen Awards
	India Poochega Sabse Shaana Kaun?	Game show
2016	61st Filmfare Awards	Television special
2017	62nd Filmfare Awards
2017–2018	TED Talks India Nayi Soch	Talk show
2018	63rd Filmfare Awards	Television special
2019	64th Filmfare Awards
	TED Talks India Nayi Baat	Talk show

Music videos

Title	Year	Performer	Album
“Kya Khoya”	2002	Jagjit Singh	Samvedna
“Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara”	2010	Various	—
“Jai Hind India”	2018	AR Rahman Nakul Abhyankar MC Heam	—
“BIBA”	2019	Shirley Setia Dev Negi	—

Personal life (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

Khan married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991, after a six-year courtship. They have a son Aryan (born 1997) and a daughter Suhana (born 2000). In 2013, they became parents of a third child, a son named AbRam, who was born through a surrogate mother. Both his elder children have expressed interest in entering the entertainment industry; Khan has stated that Aryan, who studied filmmaking at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in California, aspires to become a writer-director, while Suhana, who served as assistant director for Khan’s film Zero (2018), is studying drama and acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for higher education. Suhana made her acting debut in November 2019, in a short film titled “The Grey Part of Blue.” According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Islam, he also values his wife’s religion. His children follow both religions; at his home, the Qur’an is situated next to the murti of Hindu deities.

Although Khan was given the birth name Shahrukh Khan, he prefers his name to be written as Shah Rukh Khan and is commonly referred to by the initialism SRK.

Acting career (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

1988–1992: Television and film debut

Khan’s first starring role was in Lekh Tandon’s television series Dil Dariya, which began shooting in 1988, but production delays led to the Raj Kumar Kapoor-directed 1989 series Fauji becoming his television debut instead. In the series, which depicted a realistic look at the training of army cadets, he played the leading role of Abhimanyu Rai. This led to further appearances in Aziz Mirza’s television series Circus (1989–90) and Mani Kaul’s miniseries Idiot (1992). Khan also played minor parts in the serials Umeed (1989) and Wagle Ki Duniya (1988–90), and in the English-language television film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989). His appearances in these serials led critics to compare his look and acting style with those of the film actor Dilip Kumar, but Khan was not interested in film acting at the time, thinking that he was not good enough.

1993–1994: Anti-hero (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

Among his 1993 releases, Khan garnered the most appreciation for portraying villainous roles in two box office hits: a murderer in Baazigar, and an obsessive lover in Darr, Baazigar, in which Khan played an ambiguous avenger who murdered his girlfriend, shocked Indian audiences with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula, In The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture, Sonal Khullar called the character “the consummate anti-hero”, His performance in Baazigar, which would be his first of many appearances with actress Kajol, won Khan his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor, In 2003, the Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema stated that Khan “defied the image of the conventional hero in both these films and created his own version of the revisionist hero”. Darr marked the first of Khan’s many collaborations with filmmaker Yash Chopra and his company Yash Raj Films. Khan’s stammering and the use of the phrase “I love you, K-k-k-Kiran” were popular with audiences. Malini Mannath of The Indian Express argued that he “walks away with the acting honors in yet another negative role”. For Darr, he received a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role, also known as the Best Villain Award, but lost to Paresh Rawal for Sir. Also in 1993, Khan performed a nude scene with Deepa Sahi in Maya Memsaab, although parts of it were censored by the Central Board of Film Certification. The ensuing controversy prompted him to eschew such scenes in future roles.

1995–1998: Romantic roles

Khan starred in seven films in 1995, the first of which was Rakesh Roshan‘s melodramatic thriller, Karan Arjun. Co-starring Salman Khan and Kajol, it became the second-highest-grossing film of the year in India. His most significant release that year was Aditya Chopra‘s directorial debut, the romance Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, in which he played a young Non-resident Indian (NRI) who falls in love with Kajol’s character during a trip across Europe. Khan was initially reticent to portray the role of a lover, but this film is credited with establishing him as a “romantic hero”. Lauded by both critics and the public, it became the year’s highest-grossing production in India and abroad and was declared an “all-time blockbuster” by Box Office India, with an estimated lifetime gross of ₹2 billion (US$61.68 million) worldwide. It is the longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema; it is still showing at the Maratha Mandir Theatre in Mumbai after more than 1,000 weeks as of early 2015. The film won ten Filmfare Awards, including the second of Khan’s Best Actor Awards. The director and critic Raja Sen said, “Khan gives a fabulous performance, redefining the lover for the 1990s with great panache. He’s cool and flippant, but sincere enough to appeal to the [audience]. The performance itself is, like the best in the business, played well enough to come across as effortless, as non-acting.”

The roles in this phase of his career, and the series of romantic comedies and family dramas that followed, earned Khan widespread adulation from audiences, particularly teenagers, and according to author Anupama Chopra, established him as an icon of romance in India. He continued to have frequent professional associations with Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra, and Karan Johar, who molded his image and made him into a superstar. Khan became a romantic leading man without ever actually kissing any of his co-stars, although he broke this rule in 2012, after strong urging by Yash Chopra.

1999–2003: Career fluctuations (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

Khan’s only release in 1999 was Baadshah, in which he starred opposite Twinkle Khanna. Although the film underperformed at the box office, it earned him a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Performance in a Comic Role, which he lost to Govinda for Haseena Maan Jaayegi. Khan became a producer in 1999 in collaboration with the actress Juhi Chawla and the director Aziz Mirza for a production company called Dreamz Unlimited. The company’s first production, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000), starring Khan and Chawla, was a commercial failure. It was released one week after Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai, starring Hrithik Roshan, then a newcomer, who critics believed overshadowed Khan. Swapna Mitter of Rediff.com spoke of Khan’s predictable mannerisms, saying “Frankly, it’s high time he innovated his act a little.” Khan played a supporting role in Kamal Haasan‘s Hey Ram (2000), which was made simultaneously in Tamil and Hindi. He thereby made his Tamil debut by playing the role of an archaeologist named Amjad Khan. He performed free of charge as he wanted to work with Haasan. On Khan’s performance, T. Krithika Reddy of The Hindu wrote, “Shah Rukh Khan, as usual, comes up with an impeccable performance.”

In 2002, Khan played the title role as a rebellious alcoholic opposite Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit in Sanjay Leela Bhansali‘s period romance Devdas. At a cost of over ₹500 million (US$10.29 million), it was the most expensive Bollywood film ever made at the time, and became a box office success, earning approximately ₹1.68 billion ($35 million) worldwide. The film earned numerous accolades including 10 Filmfare Awards, with Best Actor for Khan, and a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. Khan next starred in Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), a comedy-drama written by Karan Johar and set in New York City, which became the second-highest-grossing film domestically and the top-grossing Bollywood film in external markets that year. Co-starring with Jaya Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, and Preity Zinta, Khan received critical praise for his portrayal of Aman Mathur, a man with a fatal heart disease, with critics praising his emotional impact upon audiences. Conflict broke out between Khan and the other partners of Dreamz Unlimited over the failure to cast Juhi Chawla in their 2003 production of Aziz Mirza’s Chalte Chalte, and they parted ways, despite the film’s success.

2004–2009: Comeback (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

2004 was a critically and commercially successful year for Khan. He transformed Dreamz Unlimited into Red Chillies Entertainment, adding his wife Gauri as a producer. In the company’s first production, he starred in Farah Khan‘s directorial debut, the masala film Main Hoon Na. A fictionalized account of India–Pakistan relations, it was viewed by some commentators as a conscious effort to move away from the stereotypical portrayal of Pakistan as the constant villain. Khan then played an Indian Air Force pilot who falls in love with a Pakistani woman (Preity Zinta) in Yash Chopra’s romance film Veer-Zaara, which was screened at the 55th Berlin Film Festival to critical praise. It was the highest-earning film of 2004 in India, with a worldwide gross of over ₹940 million (US$20.74 million), and Main Hoon Na was the second-highest earner with ₹680 million (US$15.01 million).

Khan collaborated for the third time with Aditya Chopra on the romantic drama Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) opposite Anushka Sharma, at that time a newcomer. He played Surinder Sahni, a shy man with low self-esteem, whose love for his young arranged wife (Sharma) causes him to transform himself into Raj, a boisterous alter-ego. Rachel Saltz of The New York Times believed the dual role to have been “tailor-made” for Khan, giving him the opportunity to display his talents, although Deep Contractor from Epilogue thought Khan displayed greater strength in the role of Surinder and weakness in the role of monologue-prone Raj. In December 2008, Khan suffered a shoulder injury while filming a small role in Mudassar Aziz’s Dulha Mil Gaya. He underwent extensive physiotherapy sessions at the time but the pain left him almost immobile and he had arthroscopic surgery in February 2009. He performed a special appearance in the 2009 film Billu, playing Bollywood superstar Sahir Khan—a fictionalized version of himself, wherein he performed musical item numbers with actresses Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Deepika Padukone. As head of the film’s production company, Red Chillies, Khan made the call to change the title of the film from Billu Barber to Billu after hairdressers across the country complained that the word “barber” was derogatory. The company covered up the offending word on billboards that had already been installed with the original title.

2010–2014: My Name Is Khan and expansion to action and comedy

After refusing the role that subsequently went to Anil Kapoor in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Khan began shooting My Name Is Khan (2010), his fourth collaboration with director Karan Johar and his sixth with Kajol. The film is based on a true story and set against the backdrop of perceptions of Islam after the 11 September attacks. Khan plays Rizwan Khan, a Muslim suffering from mild Asperger syndrome who sets out on a journey across America to meet the country’s president, in a role that film scholar Stephen Teo sees as a “symbol of assertive rasa values” and another example of Khan representing NRI identity in global Bollywood. To provide an accurate portrayal of a sufferer without disparagement, Khan spent several months researching his role by reading books, watching videos, and talking to people affected by the condition. Upon release, My Name is Khan became one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time outside India, and earned Khan his eighth Filmfare Award for Best Actor, equalling the record for the most wins in the category with actor Dilip Kumar. Jay Wesissberg from Variety noted how Khan portrayed the Asperger’s sufferer with “averted eyes, springy steps, [and] stuttered repetitions of memorized texts”, believing it to have been a “standout performance sure to receive the Autism Society‘s gold seal of approval”.

In 2013, Khan starred in Rohit Shetty‘s action comedy Chennai Express for Red Chillies Entertainment, a film which earned mixed critical reviews and a fair amount of criticism for its perceived disparagement of South Indian culture, although the film included a tribute to Tamil cinema star Rajinikanth. The critic Khalid Mohamed thought that Khan overacted in the film and criticized him for “re-rendering every old trick in the acting book”. Despite the criticism, the film broke many box office records for Hindi films in both India and abroad, surpassing 3 Idiots to briefly become the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time, with a gross of almost ₹4 billion (US$68.26 million) worldwide ticket sales. On International Women’s Day in 2013, The Times of India reported that Khan had requested a new convention with the name of his lead female co-stars appearing above his own in the credits. He claimed that the women in his life, including his co-stars, have been the reason for his success. In 2014, the actor was featured in Farah Khan’s ensemble action comedy Happy New Year, which co-starred Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, and Boman Irani; his third collaboration with the director. Although Khan’s unidimensional character was criticised, the film became a major commercial success grossing ₹3.8 billion (US$64.85 million) worldwide.

2015–present: Career setbacks, hiatus and resurgence

Khan next appeared alongside Kajol, Varun Dhawan, and Kriti Sanon in Rohit Shetty’s action comedy Dilwale (2015). The film garnered mixed reviews, though it was financially profitable with a gross of ₹3.7 billion (US$57.68 million). Namrata Joshi of The Hindu commented, “With Dilwale, Rohit Shetty goes hopelessly wrong despite much that he had at his disposal, including a power-packed cast and producer”, and felt that the attempt to repackage Khan and Kajol had backfired. He then took on dual parts of a superstar and his doppelgänger fan in Maneesh Sharma‘s action thriller Fan (2016). Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian considered the film to be “exhausting, bizarre yet watchable” and thought that Khan was aptly “creepy” as the obsessive admirer. The film underperformed at the box office, and trade journalists attributed this failure to the film’s non-conformity to mainstream formula. Later that year, Khan portrayed the supporting part of a therapist to an aspiring cinematographer (Alia Bhatt) in Gauri Shinde’s coming-of-age film Dear Zindagi.

Khan took on another action film role in the same year in Atlee‘s Jawan, playing a dual role. Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in wrote that “Khan’s screen image – expansive, suffused with love, heroic in an old-fashioned way without being aggressively macho, irreverent but also sincere – helps sell a conceit that might have crashed with any other actor”. In his third release of 2023, Khan will star in Rajkumar Hirani‘s Dunki, a social drama about illegal immigration.

Other work (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

Film production and television hosting

Khan co-produced three films from 1999 to 2003 as a founding member of the partnership Dreamz Unlimited. After the partnership was dissolved, he and Gauri restructured the company as Red Chillies Entertainment, which includes divisions dealing with film and television production, visual effects, and advertising. As of 2015, the company has produced or co-produced at least nine films. Either Khan or Gauri are usually given production credits, and he has appeared in most of the films, either in the lead role or in a guest appearance. Khan was involved in several aspects of the making of Ra.One (2011). Aside from acting, he produced the film, volunteered to write the console game script, dubbed for it, oversaw its technical development, and wrote the digital comics based on the film’s characters. Khan has occasionally done playback singing for his films. In Josh (2000) he sang the popular song “Apun Bola Tu Meri Laila”. He also sang in Don (2006) and Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012). For Always Kabhi Kabhi (2011), which was produced by Red Chillies, Khan participated in the lyrical composition.

Stage performances

Khan is a frequent stage performer and has participated in several world tours and concerts. In 1997, he performed in Asha Bhosle‘s Moments in Time concert in Malaysia, and returned the following year to perform with Karisma Kapoor for the Shahrukh–Karisma: Live in Malaysia concert. The same year, he participated in The Awesome Foursome world tour across the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States along with Juhi Chawla, Akshay Kumar, and Kajol, and resumed the tour in Malaysia the following year. In 2002, Khan featured with Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Preity Zinta, and Aishwarya Rai in the show From India With Love at Manchester’s Old Trafford and London’s Hyde Park; the event was attended by more than 100,000 people. Khan performed alongside Rani Mukherji, Arjun Rampal, and Ishaa Koppikar in a 2010 concert at the Army Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The next year he joined Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in the Friendship Concert, celebrating 150 years of India–South Africa friendship in Durban, South Africa.

Ownership of IPL cricket team

In 2008, Khan, in partnership with Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta, acquired ownership rights for the franchise representing Kolkata in the Twenty20 cricket tournament Indian Premier League (IPL) for US$75.09 million and named the team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). As of 2009, KKR was one of the richest teams in the IPL, with a brand value of US$42.1 million. The team performed poorly on the field during the first three years. Their performance improved over time, and they became the champions for the first time in 2012 and repeated the feat in 2014. The Knight Riders hold the record for the longest winning streak by any Indian team in T20s (14).

In the media (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

Khan receives a considerable amount of media coverage in India, and is often referred to as “King Khan“, “The Baadshah of Bollywood”, or “The King of Bollywood”. Anupama Chopra cites him as an “ever-present celebrity”, with two or three films a year, constantly running television ads, print ads, and gigantic billboards lining the streets of Indian cities. He is the object of a sometimes fanatical following, with a fan base estimated to exceed one billion. Newsweek named Khan as one of their fifty most powerful people globally in 2008 and called him “the world’s biggest movie star”. In 2011 he was described as “the biggest movie star you’ve never heard of…perhaps the world’s biggest movie star, period” by Steven Zeitchik of the Los Angeles Times and has been called the world’s biggest movie star in other international media outlets. According to a popularity survey, 3.2 billion people around the world know Khan, more than who knows Tom Cruise. In a 2022 readers’ poll by Empire magazine, Khan was listed as one of the 50 greatest actors of all time. The magazine attributed his success to the “outrageous amounts of [his] charisma and absolute mastery of [his] craft. Comfortable in almost every genre going, there’s pretty much nothing he can’t do.” In 2023, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and he topped the list per a readers poll.

Khan has been a brand ambassador for various governmental campaigns, including Pulse Polio and the National AIDS Control Organisation. He is a member of the board of directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in India, and in 2011 he was appointed by UNOPS as the first global ambassador of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council. He has recorded a series of public service announcements championing good health and proper nutrition and joined India’s Health Ministry and UNICEF in a nationwide child immunization campaign. In 2011, he received UNESCO‘s Pyramide con Marni award for his charitable commitment to providing education for children, becoming the first Indian to win the accolade. In 2014, Khan became the ambassador for Interpol’s campaign “Turn Back Crime”. In 2015, Khan received a privileged degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2018, Khan was honored by the World Economic Forum with their annual Crystal Award for his leadership in championing children’s and women’s rights in India.

In April 2020, Khan announced a series of initiatives to help the government of India and the state governments of Maharashtra, West Bengal, and Delhi mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic as well as relief measures for thousands of underprivileged people and daily wage laborers affected by the lockdown. He offered his 4-story personal office space to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to be used as a quarantine center for coronavirus patients.

Awards and recognitions (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

Awards and nominations received by Shah Rukh Khan

Award	Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
Asian Film Awards	2007	Best Actor	Don	Nominated
Asianet Film Awards	2012	Lifetime Achievement Award	—	Won
	2014	International Icon of Indian Cinema		Won
BIG Star Entertainment Awards	2010	Film Actor of the Decade – Male		Won
		Most Entertaining Film Actor – Male	My Name Is Khan	Nominated
	2011	Most Entertaining Film Actor – Male	Ra.One	Nominated
	2012	Most Entertaining Actor in a Romantic Film – Male	Jab Tak Hai Jaan	Won
		Most Entertaining Film Actor – Male		Won
		Most Entertaining On-screen Couple		Won
		Most Entertaining Actor in an Action Film – Male	Don 2	Nominated
	2013	Most Entertaining On-screen Couple	Chennai Express	Won
		Most Entertaining Film Actor – Male		Won
		Most Entertaining Actor in an Action Film – Male		Nominated
		Most Entertaining Actor in a Comedy Film – Male		Nominated
	2014	Most Entertaining Film Actor – Male	Happy New Year	Won
Bollywood Movie Awards	1999	Best Actor	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Won
		Most Sensational Actor	Dil Se..	Won
	2002	Best Actor	Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…	Nominated
		Best Actor (Critics)		Nominated
	2003	Best Actor	Devdas	Won
		Best Actor (Critics)		Nominated
		Most Sensational Actor		Nominated
	2005	Best Actor	Veer-Zaara	Won
	2006	Best Actor	Paheli	Nominated
	2007	Best Actor	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Nominated
		Best Villain	Don	Nominated
ETC Bollywood Business Awards	2012	Most Profitable Actor – Male	—	Won
	2013	Most Profitable Actor – Male		Won
FICCI Frames Excellence Honours	2009	Most Powerful Entertainer of the Decade		Won
	2010	Global Entertainer of the Year		Won
	2011	Best Actor	My Name Is Khan	Won
Filmfare Awards	1993	Best Male Debut	Deewana	Won
	1994	Best Actor	Baazigar	Won
		Best Performance in a Negative Role	Darr	Nominated
		Best Actor (Critics)	Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa	Won
	1995	Best Actor		Nominated
		Best Performance in a Negative Role	Anjaam	Won
	1996	Best Actor	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge	Won
	1998	Best Actor	Dil To Pagal Hai	Won
			Yes Boss	Nominated
	1999	Best Actor	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Won
		Best Performance in a Negative Role	Duplicate	Nominated
	2000	Best Performance in a Comic Role	Baadshah	Nominated
	2001	Best Actor	Mohabbatein	Nominated
		Best Actor (Critics)		Won
	2002	Best Actor	Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…	Nominated
	2003	Best Actor	Devdas	Won
		Swiss Consulate Special Award	—	Won
	2004	Power Award		Won
		Best Actor	Kal Ho Naa Ho	Nominated
	2005	Best Actor	Main Hoon Na	Nominated
			Swades	Won
			Veer-Zaara	Nominated
		Power Award	—	Won
	2007	Best Actor	Don	Nominated
			Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Nominated
	2008	Best Actor	Chak De! India	Won
			Om Shanti Om	Nominated
	2009	Best Actor	Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	Nominated
	2011	Best Actor	My Name Is Khan	Won
	2012	Best Film	Don 2	Nominated
		Best Actor		Nominated
	2013	Best Actor	Jab Tak Hai Jaan	Nominated
	2014	Best Actor	Chennai Express	Nominated
	2016	Best Actor	Dilwale	Nominated
	2017	Best Actor	Fan	Nominated
	2018	Best Actor	Raees	Nominated
	2019	Best Actor	Zero	Nominated
Global Indian Film Awards	2005	Best Actor	Swades	Won
	2007	Most Searched Actor on the internet	—	Won
		Best Actor	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Nominated
International Indian Film Academy Awards	2001	Best Actor	Mohabbatein	Nominated
	2002	Best Actor	Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…	Nominated
	2003	Best Actor	Devdas	Won
	2004	Best Actor	Kal Ho Naa Ho	Nominated
	2005	Best Actor	Swades	Nominated
			Veer-Zaara	Won
	2006	Best Actor	Paheli	Nominated
	2007	Best Actor	Don	Nominated
			Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Nominated
	2008	Best Actor	Chak De! India	Won
	2009	Star of the Decade – Male	—	Won
		Best Actor	Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	Nominated
	2011	Best Actor	My Name Is Khan	Won
	2012	Best Actor	Don 2	Nominated
	2013	Digital Star of the Year	—	Won
		Best Actor	Jab Tak Hai Jaan	Nominated
	2014	Best Actor	Chennai Express	Nominated
	2015	Best Actor	Happy New Year	Nominated
	2017	Best Actor	Fan	Nominated
	2023	Best Supporting Actor	Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva	Nominated
Indian Television Academy Awards	2008	Best Anchor – Game/Quiz Show	Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?	Won
Indian Telly Awards	2007	Best Anchor	Kaun Banega Crorepati 3	Won
	2008	Best Anchor	Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?	Nominated
Mirchi Music Awards	2014	Face of Romantic Music	—	Won
NDTV Indian of the Year Awards	2008	NDTV Special Award		Won
	2010	India’s Icon of Last 21 Years in Entertainment		Won
NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards	2012	Creative Entrepreneur of the Year		Won
Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards India	2013	Best Actor	Chennai Express	Won
	2016	Kids’ Icon of The Year	—	Won
Producers Guild Film Awards	2004	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Kal Ho Naa Ho	Nominated
	2005	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Swades	Nominated
	2008	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Chak De! India	Won
		Best Anchor	Kaun Banega Crorepati 3	Nominated
	2010	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	Won
	2011	Hindustan Times Reader’s Choice Entertainer of the Year – Male	—	Won
		Best Actor in a Leading Role	My Name Is Khan	Nominated
	2012	Hindustan Times Reader’s Choice Entertainer of the Year – Male	—	Won
		Best Actor in a Leading Role	Don 2	Nominated
	2013	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Jab Tak Hai Jaan	Nominated
	2014	Renault Star Guild Entertainer of the Year	—	Won
	2015	Best Actor in a Role	Happy New Year	Nominated
Sansui Viewers’ Choice Movie Awards	1998	Best Actor	Dil To Pagal Hai	Won
	1999	Best Actor	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Won
	2001	Best Actor	Mohabbatein	Won
	2002	Best Actor (Jury)	Aśoka	Won
	2003	Best Actor	Devdas	Won
	2004	Best Actor	Kal Ho Naa Ho	Nominated
		Best Actor (Jury)		Won
Screen Awards	1996	Best Actor	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge	Won
	1998	Best Actor	Dil To Pagal Hai	Nominated
	1999	Best Actor	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Nominated
	2001	Best Actor	Mohabbatein	Nominated
	2002	Best Actor	Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…	Nominated
		Jodi No. 1		Won
	2003	Best Actor	Devdas	Won
		Jodi No. 1		Won
	2004	Best Actor	Chalte Chalte	Nominated
	2005	Best Actor	Veer-Zaara	Won
		Jodi No. 1		Won
	2006	Best Actor	Paheli	Nominated
	2007	Best Actor	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Nominated
		Jodi No. 1		Won
		Best Actor in a Negative Role	Don	Nominated
	2008	Best Actor	Chak De! India	Won
		Jodi No. 1	Om Shanti Om	Won
	2009	Best Actor	Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	Nominated
	2010	Jodi of the Decade	—	Won
	2011	Best Actor	My Name Is Khan	Nominated
		Best Actor (Popular Choice)		Won
	2012	Best Actor	Don 2	Nominated
		Best Actor (Popular Choice)		Won
		Jodi No. 1		Won
	2013	Best Actor	Jab Tak Hai Jaan	Nominated
		Best Actor (Popular Choice)		Nominated
	2014	Best Actor	Chennai Express	Nominated
		Best Actor (Popular Choice)		Won
	2015	Best Actor	Happy New Year	Nominated
		Best Actor (Popular Choice)		Won
	2016	Best Actor (Popular Choice)	Dilwale	Won
		Jodi No. 1		Won
Stardust Awards	2004	Actor of the Year – Male	Kal Ho Naa Ho	Nominated
	2005	Actor of the Year – Male	Swades	Nominated
	2007	Actor of the Year – Male	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Nominated
		Best Actor in a Negative Role	Don	Nominated
	2008	Actor of the Year – Male	Chak De! India	Nominated
			Om Shanti Om	Nominated
	2009	Actor of the Year – Male	Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	Nominated
	2011	Best Actor in a Drama	My Name Is Khan	Nominated
	2012	Actor of the Year – Male	Don 2	Nominated
		Best Actor in a Thriller or Action	Don 2 and Ra.One	Nominated
	2013	Actor of the Year – Male	Jab Tak Hai Jaan	Won
		Best Actor (Editor’s Choice)		Won
		Best Actor in a Comedy or Romance		Nominated
	2014	Actor of the Year – Male	Happy New Year	Won
		Best Actor in a Thriller or Action		Won
	2016	Actor of the Year – Male	Fan	Nominated
		Best Actor (Editor’s Choice)		Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Dear Zindagi	Nominated
The Asian Awards	2015	Outstanding Contribution to Cinema	—	Won
Vijay Awards	2013	Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award for Excellence in Indian Cinema		Won
	2014	Entertainer of Indian Cinema		Won
Zee Cine Awards	1998	Best Actor – Male	Dil To Pagal Hai	Won
			Pardes	Nominated
	1999	Best Actor – Male	Duplicate	Nominated
			Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Won
	2000	Best Actor – Male	Baadshah	Nominated
	2001	Best Actor – Male	Mohabbatein	Nominated
	2002	Best Actor – Male	Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…	Nominated
	2003	Best Actor – Male	Devdas	Won
	2004	Best Actor – Male	Kal Ho Naa Ho	Nominated
	2005	Best Actor – Male	Main Hoon Na	Nominated
			Swades	Nominated
			Veer-Zaara	Won
	2006	Best Actor – Male	Paheli	Nominated
	2007	Fun Cinema Entertainer of the Year	Don	Won
		Best Actor – Male		Nominated
			Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Nominated
	2008	Best Actor – Male	Chak De! India	Won
			Om Shanti Om	Nominated
		Zee Icon Award	—	Nominated
	2011	Best Actor – Male	My Name Is Khan	Won
		International Male Icon	—	Nominated
	2012	Critics Award for Best Actor – Male	Don 2	Won
		Best Actor – Male		Nominated
			Ra.One	Nominated
	2013	Best Actor – Male	Jab Tak Hai Jaan	Nominated
		International Male Icon	—	Won
	2014	Best Actor – Male	Chennai Express	Won
	2018	Best Actor – Male	Raees	Nominated
		Special Honour for Contribution to Cinema and TV over the Last 25 Years	—	Won

State honours (Shah Rukh Khan Biography)

Country or organization	Year	Award
France	2007	Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
	2014	Legion of Honour
India	1997	Best Indian Citizen Award
	2002	Rajiv Gandhi Award
	2005	Padma Shri
Indian Television Academy	2017	Yash Chopra National Memorial Award
La Trobe University	2019	Honorary Doctorate
Malaysia	2008	Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka
	2012	BrandLaureate Legendary Award
Morocco	2011	L’Etoile d’Or
	2012	Wissame al-Kafaa al-Fikria
Maulana Azad National Urdu University	2016	Honorary Doctorate
UNESCO	2011	Pyramide con Marni Award
United Kingdom	2014	Global Diversity Award
University of Bedfordshire	2009	Honorary Doctorate
University of Edinburgh	2015	Honorary Doctorate
University of Law	2019	Honorary Doctorate
World Economic Forum	2018	Crystal Award

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