32 Facts About Salim Khan

Salim Abdul Rashid Khan was born on on 24 November 1935 and is an Indian actor, film producer and screenwriter.

Salim Khan wrote the screenplays, stories and scripts for numerous Bollywood films.

Salim Khan was one of the responsible person for creating the "angry young man" character archetype of Amitabh Bachchan.

Salim Khan won six Filmfare Awards as part of Salim-Javed, and he was later awarded the Padma Shri in 2014.

Salim Khan was born in the city of Balaghat in Indore State a princely state in British India into an affluent family.

Salim Khan's grandparents, are believed to be Alakozai Pashtuns who migrated from Afghanistan to India in the mid-1800s and served in the cavalry of the British Indian Army.

Salim Khan's family tended to look for employment in government service, and eventually settled in Indore.

Salim Khan was the youngest child of his parents, both of whom died by the time he was 14 years old.

Salim Khan's mother died when he was only nine years old.

Salim Khan had suffered from tuberculosis for four years before her death, and therefore it was forbidden for the younger children come close to her or hug her; Salim therefore had little contact with his mother even before her early death.

Salim Khan's father died in January 1950, when he was only fourteen years old.

Two months later, in March 1950, Salim Khan appeared for his matriculation examination.

Salim Khan did moderately well, and enrolled in Holkar College, Indore, and completed his BA.

Salim Khan's elder brothers supported him with funds drawn from the family's substantial wealth, to the extent that he was given a car of his own while he was a college student.

Salim Khan excelled in sports, especially cricket, and it was for being a star cricketer that he was allowed by the college to enroll for a master's degree at the end of his bachelors.

Salim Khan accepted and moved to Mumbai, living in a small rented apartment in Mahim.

Salim Khan's brother owned transport trucks in indore and helped him with money now and then.

Salim Khan's most substantial role, for which he did receive some notice, was in Teesri Manzil, where his role as the hero's friend was a meaty one, and his entry scene got a very good build-up.

Salim Khan began working with Abrar Alvi as a writing assistant.

Salim Khan met Javed Akhthar for first time during the making of the film Sarhadi Lootera, which was fated to be Salim Khan's last acting appearance.

Abrar Alvi and Kaifi Azmi were neighbours, and therefore Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar used to see a lot of each other.

Salim Khan used to form stories and plots, whereas Javed used to develop the dialogues and occasionally the song-lyrics for those films.

Salim Khan told us that if we could set right the script, he would make sure we got both money and credit.

Salim Khan-Javed, many a time described as "the most successful scriptwriters of all-time", are noted to be the first scriptwriters in Indian cinema to achieve star status.

The Salim Khan-Javed duo were notable for causing several changes to be made in the way scriptwriters were perceived and treated within the Hindi film industry.

Salim Khan was instrumental in launching the career of Amitabh Bachchan, who was a struggling actor before being discovered by Salim-Javed, who were impressed by his acting abilities and insisted on casting him in the lead roles for their films.

Salim Khan was personally responsible for introducing Bachchan to directors such as Prakash Mehra and Manmohan Desai.

Salim Khan, after splitting, from Javed wrote script and dialogues for successful movies like Angaaray, Naam, Kabzaa and Jurm.

Salim Khan was not very active in films from 1996 as the fold he wrote like Akayla, Toofan and others between 1988 and 1996 flopped.

Salim Khan wrote scripts for thirteen films from 1983 to 1996, after his split with Javed Akhthar.

Salman Khan, for his speech prior to that, requested to his father Salim Khan to write his speech.

In 1981, Salim Khan married actress Helen Richardson, a Christian whose father was Anglo-Indian and mother was Burmese.