SHAHRUKH KHAN ,THE KING
AMONG ACTORS OF INDIA
BORN 1965 NOVEMBER 2
Shah Rukh Khan (born Shahrukh Khan; 2 November 1965), also known as SRK, is an Indian film actor, producer and television personality. Referred to in the media as the "Baadshah of Bollywood", "King of Bollywood" or "King Khan", he has appeared in more than 80 Bollywood films, and earned numerous accolades, including 14 Filmfare Awards. Khan has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide. In terms of audience size and income, he has been described as one of the most successful film stars in the world.[5][6][7]
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Shah Rukh Khan at launch of Capital Social in 2016
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| Native name | शाहरुख खान |
| Born | Shahrukh Khan 2 November 1965 [1] New Delhi, India[2] |
| Residence | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | Hansraj College, Delhi University [3] |
| Occupation | Film actor, producer, television host |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Religion | Islam[4] |
| Spouse(s) | Gauri Khan (m. 1991) |
| Children | 3 |
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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. He is a frequent television presenter and stage show performer. The media often label him as "Brand SRK" because of his many endorsement and entrepreneurship ventures. Khan's philanthropic endeavours have provided health care and disaster relief, and he was honoured with UNESCO's Pyramide con Marni award in 2011 for his support of children's education. 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.[8
Early life and family
Shah Rukh Khan standing beside his wife Gauri at a party in 2012
Khan was born on 2 November 1965 in a Muslim family in New Delhi.[2] He spent the first five years of his life in Mangalore, where his maternal grandfather, Ifthikar Ahmed, served as the chief engineer of the port in the 1960s.[9][10][a] According to Khan, his paternal grandfather, Jan Muhammad, an ethnic Pathan was from Afghanistan.[4][12] Shah Rukh Khan also said in his interviews that he is a Pathan from Peshawar and his entire family used to speak Hindko language at home.[13] Khan's father, Meer Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist in Peshawar, British India (present-day Pakistan). As of 2010, Khan's paternal family was still living in Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshawar's Qissa Khawani Bazaar.[4] Meer was a follower of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan,[14] and affiliated with the All Indian National Congress.[4] He moved to New Delhi in 1948 partition of India.[15] Khan's mother, Lateef Fatima, was the daughter of a senior government engineer.[16][b] His parents were married in 1959.[19] Khan described himself on Twitter as "half Hyderabadi (mother), half Pathan (father), [and] some Kashmiri (grandmother)".[20] His paternal cousins in Peshawar claim that the family is of Hindkowan origin from Kashmir, not Pashtun, and also contradict the claim that his grandfather was from Afghanistan.[4][21]
Khan grew up in the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood of Delhi.[22] His father had several business ventures including a restaurant, and the family lived a middle-class life in rented apartments.[23] Khan attended St. Columba's School in central Delhi where he excelled in his studies and in sports such as hockey and football,[24] and received the school's highest award, the Sword of Honour.[23] In his youth, he acted in stage plays and received praise for his imitations of Bollywood actors, of which his favourites were Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan and Mumtaz.[25] One of his childhood friends and acting partners was Amrita Singh, who became a Bollywood actress.[26] Khan enrolled at Hansraj College (1985–88) to earn his bachelor's degree in Economics, but spent much of his time at Delhi's Theatre Action Group (TAG),[27] where he studied acting under the mentorship of theatre director Barry John.[28] After Hansraj, he began studying for a master's degree in Mass Communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, but left to pursue his acting career.[29] He also attended the National School of Drama in Delhi during his early career in Bollywood.[30] His father died of cancer in 1981,[c] and his mother died in 1991 from complications of diabetes.[33] After the death of their parents, his older sister, Shahnaz Lalarukh, born in 1960,[34] fell into a depressed state and Khan took on the responsibility of caring for her.[31][35] Shahnaz continues to live with her brother and his family in their Mumbai mansion.[36]
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 acronym SRK.[1] He married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991, after a six-year courtship.[37][38] They have a son Aryan (born 1997) and a daughter Suhana (born 2000).[29] In 2013, they became parents of a third child named AbRam,[39] who was born through a surrogate mother.[40] According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Islam, he also values his wife's religion. His children follow both religions; at home the Qur'an is situated next to the Hindu deities.[
1988–92: 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 1989 series Fauji becoming his television debut instead.[42] In the series, which depicted a realistic look at the training of army cadets, he played the leading role of Abhimanyu Rai.[43][44] This led to further appearances in Aziz Mirza's television series Circus (1989–90) and Mani Kaul's miniseries Idiot (1991).[45] Khan also played minor parts in the serials Umeed (1989) and Wagle Ki Duniya (1988–90),[45] and in the English-language television film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989).[46] His appearances in these serials led critics to compare his look and acting style with those of the film actor Dilip Kumar,[47] but Khan was not interested in film acting at the time, thinking that he was not good enough.[45][48]
Khan changed his decision to act in films in April 1991,[49] citing it as a way to escape the grief of his mother's death.[50] He moved from Delhi to Mumbai to pursue a full-time career in Bollywood, and was quickly signed to four films.[49] His first offer was for Hema Malini's directorial debut Dil Aashna Hai,[30][43] and by June, he had started his first shoot.[51] His film debut was in Deewana, which was released in June 1992.[52] In it he starred alongside Divya Bharti as the second male lead behind Rishi Kapoor. Deewana became a box office hit and launched Khan's Bollywood career;[53] he earned the Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for his performance.[54] Also released in 1992 were Khan's first films as the male lead, Chamatkar, Dil Aashna Hai, and the comedy Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, which was his first of many collaborations with the actress Juhi Chawla.[55] His initial film roles saw him play characters who displayed energy and enthusiasm. According to Arnab Ray of Daily News and Analysis, Khan brought a new kind of acting as he was "sliding down stairs on a slab of ice, cartwheeling, somersaulting, lips trembling, eyes trembling, bringing to the screen the kind of physical energy ... visceral, intense, maniacal one moment and cloyingly boyish the next."[56]
1993–94: Anti-hero
Among his 1993 releases, Khan garnered the most appreciation for portraying villainous roles in two box office hits: an obsessive lover in Darr, and a murderer in Baazigar.[57] 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.[58] 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.[59] Baazigar, in which Khan played an ambiguous avenger who murders his girlfriend, shocked Indian audiences with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula.[60] In The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture, Sonal Khullar called the character "the consummate anti-hero".[61] His performance in Baazigar, which would be his first of many appearances with actress Kajol, won Khan his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor.[62] In 2003, the Encyclopedia 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".[62] 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.[63] The ensuing controversy prompted him to eschew such scenes in future roles.[64]
In 1994, Khan played a love-struck musician in Kundan Shah's comedy-drama film Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa opposite Deepak Tijori and Suchitra Krishnamurthy, which he later professed was his favourite role. His performance earned him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance, and in a retrospective review from 2004, Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com referred to it as Khan's best performance, saying "He is spontaneous, vulnerable, boyish, mischievous and acting straight from the heart."[65] Also in 1994, Khan won the Filmfare Best Villain Award for his role as an obsessive lover in Anjaam, co-starring Madhuri Dixit and Deepak Tijori.[62] At the time, playing antagonistic roles was considered risky to a leading man's career in Bollywood. Ray subsequently credited Khan for taking "insane risks" and "pushing the envelope" by choosing to play such characters, through which he established his career in Bollywood.[56] The director Mukul S. Anand called him "the new face of the industry" at the time.[50]
1995–98: Romantic hero
Khan with co-star Kajol in 2014 celebrating 1000 weeks continuous showing of their film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
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.[66] 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".[67] 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,[66][68] with a gross of over ₹1.22 billion (US$18 million) worldwide.[69] 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 1000 weeks as of early 2015.[70][71] The film won ten Filmfare Awards, including the second of Khan's Best Actor Awards.[62] 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."[72]
In 1996, all four of Khan's releases failed critically and commercially,[73] but the following year, his starring role opposite Juhi Chawla in Aziz Mirza's romantic comedy Yes Boss earned him accolades that included a Filmfare Best Actor nomination.[59] Later in 1997, he starred in Subhash Ghai's diasporic-themed social drama Pardes,[74] portraying Arjun, a musician facing a moral dilemma. India Today cites it as one of the first major Bollywood pictures to succeed in the United States.[75] Khan's final release of 1997 was a second collaboration with Yash Chopra in the popular musical romance Dil To Pagal Hai. He portrayed Rahul, a stage director caught in a love triangle between Madhuri Dixit and Karisma Kapoor. The film and his performance met with critical praise, winning Khan his third Best Actor Award at Filmfare.[62]
Khan performed the lead role in three films and made one special appearance in 1998. In his first release of the year, he played a double role opposite Juhi Chawla and Sonali Bendre in Mahesh Bhatt's action comedy Duplicate, the first of his many collaborations with Yash Johar's production company Dharma Productions. The film was not well received,[76] but India Today lauded Khan for his energetic performance.[77] The same year, Khan won critical praise for his performance as an All India Radio correspondent who develops an infatuation for a mysterious terrorist (Manisha Koirala) in Dil Se..,[78] the third instalment of Mani Ratnam's trilogy of terror films.[79][80] In his final release of the year, he portrayed a college student in Karan Johar's romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, in which he was involved in a love triangle along with Kajol and Rani Mukerji. The writer Anjana Motihar Chandra has referred to the picture as the blockbuster of the 1990s, a "pot-pourri of romance, comedy, and entertainment."[81] Khan won the Best Actor award at the Filmfare Awards ceremony for the second consecutive year,[62] although he and several critics believed his performance to have been overshadowed by that of Kajol.[82]
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,[83] and according to author Anupama Chopra, established him as an icon of romance in India.[84][85] He continued to have frequent professional associations with Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra, and Karan Johar, who moulded his image and made him into a superstar.[86] Khan became a romantic leading man without ever actually kissing any of his co-stars,[84] although he broke this rule in 2012, after strong urging by Yash Chopra.[87]
1999–2003: Career challenges
Khan's only release in 1999 was Baadshah, in which he starred opposite Twinkle Khanna. Although the film underperformed at the box office,[88] it earned him a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Performance in a Comic Role, which he lost to Govinda for Haseena Maan Jaayegi.[59] Khan became a producer in 1999 in a collaboration with the actress Juhi Chawla and the director Aziz Mirza for a production company called Dreamz Unlimited.[89] The company's first production, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000), starring Khan and Chawla, was a commercial failure.[90] It was released one week after Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai, starring Hrithik Roshan, then a newcomer, who critics believed overshadowed Khan.[91] Swapna Mitter of Rediff.com spoke of Khan's predictable mannerisms, saying "Frankly, it's high time he innovated his act a little."[92] Khan made his debut in Tamil cinema with Hey Ram (2000), where he played the role of archaeologist Amjad Khan.[93] He performed free of charge as he wanted to work with Kamal Haasan.[94] The film released to critical acclaim;[95] on Khan's performance, T. Krithika Reddy of The Hindu wrote, "Shah Rukh Khan, as usual comes up with an impeccable performance."[93]
In 2001, Dreamz Unlimited attempted a comeback with Khan portraying the title role in Santosh Sivan's historical epic Aśoka, a partly fictionalised account of the life of emperor Ashoka. The film was screened at the Venice Film Festival and the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival to a positive response,[96] but it performed poorly at Indian box offices.[97] As losses continued to mount for the production company,[91] Khan was forced to close srkworld.com, a company that he had started along with Dreamz Unlimited.[98] In December 2001, Khan suffered a spinal injury while performing an action sequence for a special appearance in Krishna Vamsi's Shakti: The Power.[99] He was subsequently diagnosed with a prolapsed disc, and attempted multiple alternative therapies. None of these provided a permanent solution to the injury, which caused him severe pain while shooting several of his films.[99][100] By the beginning of 2003, his condition had worsened to the point that he had to undergo anterior cervical discectomy and fusion surgery at Wellington Hospital, London.[101][102][103] Khan resumed shooting in June 2003, but he reduced his workload and the number of film roles he accepted annually.[100]
Shah Rukh Khan views a book with Aishwarya Rai in 2002
Successes during this time included Aditya Chopra's Mohabbatein (2000), and Karan Johar's family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001),[90][104] which Khan cites as a turning point in his career.[105] Both films co-starred Amitabh Bachchan as an authoritarian figure, and presented ideological struggles between the two men.[106][107] Khan's performances in the films were met with wide public appreciation, and he was awarded his second Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for Mohabbatein.[59][108] Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... remained the top-grossing Indian production of all time in the overseas market for the next five years.[69]
In 2002, Khan played the title role as a rebellious alcoholic opposite Aishwarya Rai in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period romance Devdas. At a cost of over ₹500 million (US$7.4 million), it was the most expensive Bollywood film ever made at the time,[109] yet recovered its costs, earning ₹840 million (US$12 million) worldwide.[69] The film earned numerous accolades including 10 Filmfare Awards, with Best Actor for Khan,[54] and a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language.[110] Khan next starred in Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003),
2004–09: Resurgence
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.[114] In the company's first production, he starred in Farah Khan's directorial debut, the action comedy masala film Main Hoon Na. A fictionalised 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.[115] 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.[116] It was the highest earning film of 2004 in India, with a worldwide gross of over ₹940 million (US$14 million), and Main Hoon Na was the second-highest earner with ₹680 million (US$10 million).[69][117]
Shah Rukh Khan standing beside Priyanka Chopra at film premiere
In his final release of 2004, Khan starred as a NASA scientist who patriotically returns to India to rekindle his roots in Ashutosh Gowariker's social drama Swades (meaning "Homeland"), which became the first Indian picture to be shot inside the NASA research centre at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.[118] Film scholar Stephen Teo refers to the picture as an example of "Bollywoodised realism", displaying a transcendence in conventional narrative and audience expectation in Hindi cinema.[119] In December 2013, The Times of India reported that Khan found filming the picture such an emotionally overwhelming and life-changing experience that he had still not viewed the film.[120] Derek Elley of Variety found Khan's performance "unsettling" as "a self-satisfied expatriate determined to bring Western values to poor Indian peasants",[121] but several film critics, including Jitesh Pillai, believed it to have been his finest acting to date.[122][123] He was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award for all three of his 2004 releases and eventually won the award for Swades.[54][59] Filmfare later included his performance in the 2010 issue of Bollywood's "Top 80 Iconic Performances".[124]
In 2005, Khan starred in Amol Palekar's fantasy drama, Paheli. The film was India's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards.[125] He later collaborated with Karan Johar for the third time in the musical romantic drama Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), the story of two unhappily married people in New York City who begin an extramarital affair. The film, which featured an ensemble cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji and Kirron Kher, emerged as India's highest-grossing film in the overseas market,[104] earning more than ₹1.13 billion (US$17 million) worldwide.[69] Both his roles in Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna and the action film Don, a remake of the 1978 film of the same name, earned Khan Best Actor nominations at the Filmfare Awards,[126] despite his performance as the titular character in Don being negatively compared to that of Amitabh Bachchan in the original film.[127][128]
"Such great things have happened to such a normal guy like me. I am a nobody who shouldn't have been able to do all this but I have done it. I tell everyone that there's this myth I work for; there is this myth called Shahrukh Khan and I am his employee. I have to live up to that ... I'll do it, I am an actor. But I can't start believing in this myth."
—Khan reflecting in 2007 on his position as the Hindi film industry's top star[129]
In 2007, Khan portrayed a disgraced hockey player who coaches the Indian women's national hockey team to World Cup success in Yash Raj Films' semi-fictional Chak De! India. Bhaichand Patel notes that Khan, who had a background in the sport playing for his university's hockey team,[130] essentially portrayed himself as a "cosmopolitan, liberal, Indian Muslim".[131] Faring well in both India and abroad,[69][132] Khan garnered another Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his performance,[54] which Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN considers to have been "without any of his typical trappings, without any of his trademark quirks", portraying Kabir Khan "like a real flesh-and-blood human being".[133] Filmfare included his performance in their 2010 issue of the "Top 80 Iconic Performances".[134] In the same year, Khan starred alongside Arjun Rampal, Deepika Padukone and Shreyas Talpade in Farah Khan's reincarnation melodrama Om Shanti Om, portraying a 1970s junior artiste who is reborn as a 2000s era superstar. The film became the highest grossing Indian motion picture of 2007, both domestically and abroad.[104][135] Om Shanti Om earned Khan his second nomination of the year for Best Actor at Filmfare.[136] Khalid Mohammed from Hindustan Times wrote, "the enterprise belongs to Shah Rukh Khan, who tackles comedy, high drama and action with his signature style—spontaneous and intuitively intelligent".[137]
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,[138] although Deep Contractor from Epilogue thought Khan displayed greater strength in the role of Surinder and weakness in the role of monologue-prone Raj.[139] 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.[140][141] He performed an extended, special appearance in the 2009 film Billu, playing Bollywood superstar Sahir Khan—a fictionalised version of himself, wherein he performed musical item numbers with actresses Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Deepika Padukone.[142] 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.[143]
Other work
Film production and television hosting
Khan co-produced three films from 1999 to 2003 as a founding member of the partnership Dreamz Unlimited.[89] After the partnership was dissolved, he and Gauri restructured the company as Red Chillies Entertainment,[114] which includes divisions dealing with film and television production, visual effects, and advertising.[189] As of 2015, the company has produced or co-produced at least nine films.[190] Either Khan or Guari 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.[191][192] 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).[193] For Always Kabhi Kabhi (2011), which was produced by Red Chillies, Khan participated in the lyrical composition.[194]
In addition to his early television serial appearances, Khan has hosted numerous televised awards shows, including the Filmfare, Zee Cine, and Screen Awards.[195][196][197] In 2007, he replaced Amitabh Bachchan for one season as the host of Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,[198] and a year later, Khan began hosting Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?, the Indian version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?.[199] In 2011, he returned to television, appearing on Imagine TV's Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout, the Indian version of Wipeout; scenes featuring Khan were shot at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai.[200] Contrary to his earlier television anchoring jobs, Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout performed poorly. It aired for only one season and became the lowest rated show hosted by a Bollywood star.[200]
Stage performances
Shah Rukh Khan dances with other performers in 2010
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.[201] 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.[202][203] 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.[204] Khan performed alongside Rani Mukherji, Arjun Rampal and Ishaa Koppikar in a 2010 concert at the Army Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh.[205] 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.[206]
Khan started an association with the "Temptations" series of concert tours by singing, dancing, and performing skits alongside Arjun Rampal, Priyanka Chopra, and other Bollywood stars in Temptations 2004, a stage show that toured 22 venues across the world.[207] The show played to 15,000 spectators at Dubai's Festival City Arena.[208] In 2008, Khan set up Temptation Reloaded, a series of concerts that toured several countries, including the Netherlands.[209] Another tour was held with Bipasha Basu and others in 2012 in Jakarta,[210] and in 2013 another series of concerts visited Auckland, Perth and Sydney.[211] In 2014, Khan performed in SLAM! The Tour in the US, Canada, and London,[212] and also hosted the Indian premiere of the live talent show, Got Talent World Stage Live.[213]
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).[214] As of 2009, KKR was one of the richest teams in the IPL, with a brand value of US$42.1 million.[215] The team performed poorly on the field during the first three years.[216] Their performance improved over time, and they became the champions in 2012[216] and 2014.[217]
Khan performed alongside Sunidhi Chauhan and Shriya Saran at the opening ceremony of the 2011 season, where they danced to Tamil songs.[218] He appeared again in 2013 alongside Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and Pitbull.[219] In May 2012, the Mumbai Cricket Association banned him from the Wankhede Stadium for five years for arguing with security guards and officials after a match between KKR and The Mumbai Indians.[220] Khan later apologised to his fans after his team won the final match.[2
‘ஷாருக்கான்’ என்றும் ‘எஸ்.ஆர்.கே’ (SRK) என்றும் எல்லோராலும் அழைக்கப்படும் ஷாருக்கான் அவர்கள், ‘பாலிவுட்டின் பாட்ஷா‘ என்றும், ‘கிங் கான்’ என்றும், ‘கிங் ஆஃப் ரொமான்ஸ்’ என்றும் ஊடங்களால் வழங்கப்படுகிறார். எந்தவொரு சினிமா பின்னணியும் இல்லாமல், தொலைக்காட்சி மூலமாகத் திரை முன்பு தோன்றிய அவர், படிப்படியாகத் தனது திறமைகளை வளர்த்துக் கொண்டு, பாலிவுட்டில் கால்பதித்தார். 1992ல், பாலிவுட்டில், ‘டர்’ என்ற திரைப்படத்தில் எதிர்மறையான கதாபாத்திரத்தில் அறிமுகமான அவர், மெல்ல நகர்ந்து, ஹீரோ என்ற அந்தஸ்தைக் கைப்பற்றி, முன்னணி ஹீரோக்கள் பட்டியலில் தனது பெயரைத் தக்கவைத்துக் கொண்டிருக்கிறார். உலகளவில் ரசிகர்களைத் தனது நடிப்பால் ஈர்த்து, பில்லியன் கணக்கில் ரசிகர்கள் பட்டாளம் கொண்ட ஒரே நடிகரென்ற பெருமைக்குரியவர். இதனால் இவருக்கு, ‘தி வேர்ல்ட்’ஸ் பிக்கெஸ்ட் மூவி ஸ்டார்’ என்ற பட்டத்தை, லாஸ் ஏஞ்செல்ஸ் டைம்ஸ் 2011ல் வழங்கி கௌரவித்தது. 30 முறை ஃபிலிம்ஃபேர் விருதுகளுக்காகப் பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்டு, 15 முறை ஃபிலிம்ஃபேர் விருதுகளை வென்ற அவர், இந்திய அரசின் மிக உயரிய விருதான ‘பத்மஸ்ரீ’, சிறந்த குடிமகன் விருதும், பல்வேறு சர்வதேச விருதுகளையும் வென்று, ஒரு நடிகனாகவும், தயாரிப்பாளாரகவும் இருந்து வருகிறார். டிரீம்ஸ் அன்லிமிடெட் என்ற தயாரிப்பு நிறுவனத்தின் இணை நிறுவனராகவும், மோஷன் பிக்சர் உற்பத்தி மற்றும் விநியோக நிறுவனமான ரெட் சில்லிஸ் எண்டர்டெய்ன்மெண்ட் மற்றும் அனிமேஷன் ஸ்டூடியோ ரெட் சில்லிஸ் VFXஇன் இணைத் தலைவராகவும் இருந்து வரும் அவர், இந்தியன் பிரிமியர் லீக் கிரிக்கெட் அணி கொல்கத்தா நைட் ரைடர்ஸின் இணை உரிமையாளரும் ஆவார்.
ஹிந்தித் திரையுலகில் சாதாரணக் கலைஞனாக அடியெடுத்து வைத்து, உலகின் அனைத்து திரையுலகையுமே தன்னைத் திரும்பிப் பார்க்கும் அளவிற்கு முன்னேறிய ஷாருக்கான் அவர்களின் வாழ்க்கை வரலாறு மற்றும் பாலிவுட்டில் அவர் நிகழ்த்திய சாதனைகள் பற்றியறிய மேலும் தொடர்ந்து படிக்கவும்.
பிறப்பு: 2 நவம்பர், 1965 (வயது 47)
பிறப்பிடம்: புது தில்லி, இந்தியா
பணி: நடிகர், தயாரிப்பாளர், தொலைக்காட்சி தொகுப்பாளர்
நாட்டுரிமை: இந்தியன்
பிறப்பு
ஷாருக்கான் அவர்கள், இந்தியாவின் தலைநகரான புது தில்லியில், நவம்பர் மாதம் 2 ஆம் தேதி, 1965 ஆம் ஆண்டில், முஸ்லீம் தம்பதியரான தாஜ் முகமது கான் மற்றும் லதீஃப் பாத்திமாவிற்கு மகனாகப் பிறந்தார். அவரது தந்தை, இந்தியப் பிரிவினைக்கு முன்பே, பாக்கிஸ்தானில் உள்ள பெஷாவரிலிருந்து இந்தியா வந்து குடியேறிய ஒரு இந்திய சுதந்திர ஆர்வலர் ஆவார்.
ஆரம்பகால வாழ்க்கையும், கல்வியும்
சிறு வயதிலிருந்தே, தனது பெற்றோரின் அரவணைப்பிலும், பாசப்பினைப்பிலும் வளர்ந்த அவர், டெல்லியில் உள்ள செயின்ட் கொலம்பியா பள்ளியில் தனது பள்ளிப்படிப்பைக் கற்றார். பள்ளிக்காலங்களில் படிப்பு, விளையாட்டு, மற்றும் நடிப்பு போன்ற அனைத்திலும் சிறந்து விளங்கிய அவர், பள்ளியில் சிறந்து விளங்கும் மாணவருக்கு வழங்கப்படும் வருடாந்திர விருதான ‘ஸ்வார்ட் ஆஃப் ஹானர்’ என்ற பட்டத்தைப் பெற்றார். அவருக்குப் 15 வயதிருக்கும் போது, அவரது தந்தை புற்றுநோயால் இறந்ததால், அவர் தனது தாயின் அரவணைப்பில் வளர்ந்தார். தனது பள்ளிப்படிப்பிற்குப் பின்னர், 1985ல் பின்னர் ஹன்ஸ்ராஜ் கல்லூரியில் சேர்ந்த அவர், பொருளாதாரத்தில் தனது இளநிலைப் பட்டத்தை 1988 ஆம் ஆண்டில் பெற்றார். இளங்கலைப் பட்டம் பெற்ற அவர், அத்துடன் நிறுத்திக் கொள்ளாமல், ஜாமியா மிலியா இஸ்லாமியா கல்லூரியில் மாஸ் கம்யூனிகேஷன்ஸில் முதுநிலைப் பட்டமும் பெற்றார். என்னதான் முதுகலைப் பட்டம் பெற்றிருந்தாலும், அவரது கவனம் முழுவதும் பாலிவுட்டில் நுழைவதில் தான் இருந்தது. இதன் காரணமாக, அவர் தில்லியில் உள்ள தேசிய நாடகப் பள்ளியில் சேர்ந்து திரையுலக நுணுக்கங்களைப் பயின்றார். அவரது தாயார் வெகு நாட்காளாக நோய்வாய்ப்பட்டிருந்ததால், 1990ல் மரணமடைந்தார். இதனால், பெரிதும் பாதிக்கப்பட்ட அவர், அவரது தாயாரின் அறிவுரைப்படி, ‘கடும் முயற்சியால் மட்டுமே வெற்றியின் இலக்கிய அடைய முடியுமென்று’ எண்ணி அதை நோக்கிப் பயணித்தார்.
திரையுலகப் பிரவேசம்
தனது தாயாரின் மரணத்திற்கு முன்பே அவர், ‘தில் டரியா’, மற்றும் ‘ஃபௌஜி’ என்ற தொலைக்காட்சித் தொடர்களில் நடித்தார். ‘ஃபௌஜி’ என்ற தொடரில் அவர் நடித்த கமாண்டோ கதாபாத்திரம் பெருமளவு வரவேற்பு பெற்றுத்தந்ததால், அவர் தொடர்ந்து ‘சர்கஸ்’ என்ற ஆங்கிலத் தொலைக்காட்சித் திரைப்படத்தில் நடித்தார். இதன் விளைவாக, ஹேமாமாலினி இயக்கும் படமான ‘தில் ஆஷ்னா ஹை’ என்ற படத்தில் நடிக்க வாய்ப்பு கிடைத்தது. இப்பட வாய்ப்பைப் பெற்ற அவர், மும்பைக்குப் பயணமானார்.
இல்லற வாழ்க்கை
திரையுலகில் கால்பதிக்க எண்ணிய ஷாருக்கான் அவர்கள், பாலிவுட்டின் தலைமை இடமாகத் திகழும் மும்பைக்கு 1991ல் சென்றார். அங்கு ஒரு விழாவில், கவுரி சிப்பர் என்பவரைக் கண்ட அவருக்கு, அவர் மீது காதல் மலர்ந்தது. அவர் ஒரு இந்து என்பதால், பல எதிர்ப்புகளையும் மீறி, அவர்கள் அக்டோபர் மாதம் 25 ஆம் தேதி, 1991 ஆம் ஆண்டில் இருவரும் திருமணம் செய்தனர். அவர்கள் இருவருக்கும் 1997ல் ஆரியன் என்ற மகனும், 2000ல் சுஹானா என்ற மகளும் பிறந்தனர். திருமணத்திற்கு முன்பு தனது மதமான இஸ்லாமியம் மீது அபார நம்பிக்கை கொண்ட அவர், திருமணத்திற்குப் பின், இரண்டு மதங்களையும் பின்பற்றுகிறார்.
திரையுலக வாழ்க்கை
ஷாருக்கான் அவர்கள், முதலில் நடித்தப் படமான ‘தில் ஆஷ்னா ஹை’ வெளிவருவதில் தாமதமானதால், அவரது ‘தீவானா’ என்ற படம் 1992ல் முதலில் வெளியானது. அதைத் தொடர்ந்து, அவர் ‘சமத்கார்’ (1992), ‘இடியட்’ (1992), ‘ராஜூ பன் கயா ஜென்டில்மேன்’ (1992), ‘மாயா மேம்சாப்’ (1993), ‘ஜிங் அங்கிள்’ (1993), ‘பாசிகர்’ (1993), ‘கபி ஹா கபி நா’ (1993), ‘அஞ்சாம்’ (1993), ‘கரன் அர்ஜுன்’ (1993), ‘ஜமானா தீவானா’ (1993), ‘குட்டு’ (1995), ‘ஓ டார்லிங்! யெஹ் ஹை இந்தியா’ (1995), ‘தில்வாலே துல்ஹனியா லே ஜாயேங்கே’ (1995), ‘ராம் ஜானே’ (1995), ‘த்ரிமூர்த்தி’ (1995), ‘இங்கிலீஷ் பாபு தேசி மேம்’ (1995), ‘சாஹத்’ (1996), ‘ஆர்மி’ (1996), ‘கோய்லா’ (1997), ‘எஸ் பாஸ்’ (1997), ‘பர்தேஷ்’ (1997), ‘தில் தோ பாகல் ஹை’ (1997), ‘டூப்ளிகேட்’ (1998), ‘தில் சே’ (1998), ‘குச் குச் ஹோத்தா ஹை’ (1998), ‘பாட்ஷா’ (1993), ‘ஃபிர் பி தில் ஹை ஹிந்துஸ்தானி’ (2000), ‘ஜோஷ்’ (2000), ‘ஹே ராம்’ (2000), ‘மொஹப்பத்தேன்’ (2000), ‘ஒன் 2 கா 4’ (2001), ‘அசோகா’ (2001), ‘கபி குஷி கபி கம்’ (2001), ‘ஹம தும்ஹாரே ஹை சனம்’ (2002), ‘தேவதாஸ்’ (2002), ‘சல்தே சல்தே’ (2003), ‘கல் ஹோ னா ஹோ’ (2003), ‘யே லம்ஹே ஜூடாய் கே’ (2004), ‘மெய்ன் ஹூ நா’ (2004), ‘வீர் ஜாரா’ (2004), ‘ஸ்வதேஷ்’ (2004), ‘பஹெளி’ (2005), ‘கபி அல்விடா னா கெஹ்னா’ (2006), ‘டான்: தி தி சேஸ் பிகின்ஸ் அகைன்’ (2006), ‘சக் தே! இந்தியா’ (2007), ‘ஓம் சாந்தி ஓம்’ (2007), ‘ரப் னே பனா தி ஜோடி’ (2008), ‘பில்லு பார்பர்’ (2009), ‘மை நேம் இஸ் கான்’ (2011), ‘ரா ஒன்’ (2011), ‘டான் 2: தி சேஸ் கண்டிநியூஸ்’ (2011), மற்றும் ‘ஜப் தக் ஹை ஜான்’ (2012) போன்ற திரைப்படங்களில் நடித்தார்.
தயாரிப்பு நிறுவனராக ஷாருக்
1999ல், ட்ரீம்ஸ் அன்லிமிடெட் என்ற தயாரிப்பு நிறுவனத்தை, ஜூஹி சாவ்லா, இயக்குனர் ஆசிஸ் மிர்சாவுடன் இணைந்து தொடங்கிய அவர், ஐந்து ஆண்டுகள் கழித்து, அதை ‘ரெட் சில்லீஸ் என்டெர்டைன்மென்ட் என்ற பெயரில் மாற்றி, தனது மனைவியைத் தயாரிப்பாளராக அறிவித்தார். அந்நிறுவனம், ‘ஃபிர் பி தில் ஹை ஹிந்துஸ்தானி’, ‘அசோகா’, ‘சல்தே சல்தே’, ‘மெயின் ஹூ நா’, ‘பஹெளி’, ‘கால்’, ‘பில்லு’, ‘ஆல்வேஸ் கபி கபி’, ‘ரா ஒன்’ மற்றும் ‘டான் 2’ போன்ற திரைப்படங்களைத் தயாரித்தது. பின்னர், அனிமேஷன் ஸ்டுடியோவை அத்துடன் இணைத்து, ரெட் சில்லீஸ் VFX என்ற பெயரில் ‘சக் தே இந்தியா’, ஓம் ஷாந்தி ஓம்’, ‘தோஸ்தானா’, குர்பான்’ போன்ற படங்களையும் தயாரித்தது.
தொலைக்காட்சித் தொகுப்பாளராக ஷாருக்
2007ல், ‘கோன் பனேகா கரோர்பதி’ என்ற நேரடி விளையாட்டு நிகழ்ச்சியின் மூன்றாவது பகுதியை வழங்கினார்.
2008ல், ‘க்யா ஆப் பான்ச்வி பாஸ் சே தேஜ் ஹை?” என்ற நிகழ்ச்சியத் தொகுத்து வழங்கினார்.
2011ல், ‘ஜோர் கா ஜட்கா: டோடல் வைப்அவுட்’என்ற அமெரிக்கன் விளையாட்டு நிகழ்ச்சியைத் தொகுத்து வழங்கினார்.
விருதுகளும், அங்கீகாரங்களும்
1997 – சிறந்த இந்திய குடியுரிமை விருது
2002 – பொழுதுபோக்கு துறையில் சிறந்து விளங்கியதால், ‘ராஜீவ் காந்தி விருது’ வழங்கப்பட்டது.
2005 – இந்தியாவின் நான்காவது உயரிய சிவிலியன் விருதான ‘பத்ம ஸ்ரீ’ விருதை, இந்திய அரசு அவருக்கு வழங்கி கௌரவித்தது.
2009 – “தசாப்தத்தின் மிக சக்திவாய்ந்த பொழுதுபோக்கு கலைஞர்” என்ற IIFA-FICCI பிரேம்ஸ் விருதுகள் பெற்று பெருமைக்குரியவர்.
30 முறை ஃபிலிம்ஃபேர் விருதுகளுக்காகப் பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்ட அவர், 15 முறை ஃபிலிம்ஃபேர் விருதுகளை வென்றுள்ளார்.
ஷாருக்கான் அவர்கள், சிறந்த நடிகருக்கான ஆறு முறை ஐஐஎஃப்ஏ விருதுகள், எட்டு ஜீ சினி விருதுகள், பதிமூன்று ஸ்டார் ஸ்க்ரீன் விருதுகள், மூன்று பாலிவுட் திரைப்பட விருதுகள், இரண்டு குளோபல் இந்திய திரைப்பட விருதுகள், ஆறு முறை சான்சூய் விருதுகள், நான்கு முறை பால்வுட் விருதுகள், மற்றும் ஆசிய திரைப்பட விருதுகள் விழாவில் சிறந்த நடிகருக்கான பரிந்துரை செய்யப்பட்டார்.
காலவரிசை
1965: புது தில்லியில், நவம்பர் மாதம் 2 ஆம் தேதி, 1965 ஆம் ஆண்டில், முஸ்லீம் தம்பதியரான தாஜ் முகமது கான் மற்றும் லதீஃப் பாத்திமாவிற்கு மகனாகப் பிறந்தார்.
1985: ஹன்ஸ்ராஜ் கல்லூரியில் சேர்ந்து, பொருளாதாரத்தில் தனது இளநிலைப் பட்டத்தை 1988 ஆம் ஆண்டில் பெற்றார்.
1990: வெகு நாட்காளாக நோய்வாய்ப்பட்டிருந்த அவரது தாயார், 1990ல் மரணமடைந்தார்.
1990: ஹேமாமாலினி இயக்கும் படமான ‘தில் ஆஷ்னா ஹை’ என்ற படத்தில் நடிக்க வாய்ப்பு கிடைத்தது.
1991: பாலிவுட்டின் தலைமை இடமாகத் திகழும் மும்பைக்குச் சென்றார்.
1992: முதலில் நடித்தப் படமான ‘தில் ஆஷ்னா ஹை’ வெளிவருவதில் தாமதமானதால், அவரது ‘தீவானா’ என்ற படம் 1992ல் முதலில் வெளியானது.
1991: கவுரி சிப்பர் என்ற இந்து பெண்ணைக் காதல் புரிந்து, பல எதிர்ப்புகளையும் மீறி, அக்டோபர் மாதம் 25 ஆம் தேதி, 1991 ஆம் ஆண்டில் மணமுடித்தார்.
1999: ட்ரீம்ஸ் அன்லிமிடெட் என்ற தயாரிப்பு நிறுவனத்தை, ஜூஹி சாவ்லா, இயக்குனர் ஆசிஸ் மிர்சாவுடன் இணைந்து தொடங்கினார்.
2௦௦4: ட்ரீம்ஸ் அன்லிமிடெட் நிறுவனத்தை, ‘ரெட் சில்லீஸ் என்டெர்டைன்மென்ட் என்ற பெயரில் மாற்றி, தனது மனைவியைத் தயாரிப்பாளராக அறிவித்தார்.
2005: இந்தியாவின் நான்காவது உயரிய சிவிலியன் விருதான ‘பத்ம ஸ்ரீ’ விருதை, இந்திய அரசு அவருக்கு வழங்கி கௌரவித்தது.
2007: ‘கோன் பனேகா கரோர்பதி’ என்ற நேரடி விளையாட்டு நிகழ்ச்சியின் மூன்றாவது பகுதியை வழங்கினார்.
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