99 Facts About Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide.

Shahrukh Khan began his career with appearances in several television series in the late 1980s.

Early in his career, Shahrukh Khan was recognised for portraying villainous roles in the films Baazigar, Darr, and Anjaam.

Shahrukh Khan then rose to prominence after starring in a series of romantic films, including Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mohabbatein and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.

Shahrukh Khan is a frequent television presenter and stage show performer.

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Shahrukh Khan was born on 2 November 1965 into a Muslim family in New Delhi.

Shahrukh Khan 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.

Shahrukh Khan was the cousin of the major general in the Indian National Army Shah Nawaz Khan.

Shahrukh Khan described himself on Twitter as "half Hyderabadi, half Pathan, and some Kashmiri ".

Shahrukh Khan grew up in the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood of New Delhi.

Shahrukh Khan's father had several business ventures including a restaurant, and the family lived a middle-class life in rented apartments.

Shahrukh Khan attended St Columba's School in central Delhi where he excelled in his studies and in sports such as hockey and football, and received the school's highest award, the Sword of Honour.

Shahrukh Khan enrolled at Hansraj College to earn his bachelor's degree in economics, but spent much of his time at Delhi's Theatre Action Group, where he studied acting under the mentorship of theatre director Barry John.

Shahrukh Khan attended the National School of Drama in Delhi during his early career in Bollywood.

Shahrukh Khan's father died of cancer in 1981, and his mother died in 1991 from complications of diabetes.

Shahrukh Khan married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991, after a six-year courtship.

Shahrukh Khan's children follow both religions; at his home the Qur'an is situated next to the murti of Hindu deities.

Shahrukh 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.

Shahrukh Khan played minor parts in the serials Umeed and Wagle Ki Duniya, and in the English-language television film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones.

Shahrukh Khan changed his decision to act in films in April 1991, citing it as a way to escape the grief of his mother's death.

Shahrukh Khan moved from Delhi to Mumbai to pursue a full-time career in Bollywood, and was quickly signed to four films.

In 2003, the Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema stated that Shahrukh Khan "defied the image of the conventional hero in both these films and created his own version of the revisionist hero".

Also in 1993, Shahrukh Khan performed a nude scene with Deepa Sahi in Maya Memsaab, although parts of it were censored by the Central Board of Film Certification.

In 1994, Shahrukh 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.

Shahrukh Khan's performance earned him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance, and in a retrospective review from 2004, Sukanya Verma of Rediff.

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Also in 1994, Shahrukh Khan won the Filmfare Best Villain Award for his role as an obsessive lover in Anjaam, co-starring Madhuri Dixit.

Arnab Ray subsequently credited Shahrukh Khan for taking "insane risks" and "pushing the envelope" by choosing to play such characters, through which he established his career.

Shahrukh Khan starred in seven films in 1995, the first of which was Rakesh Roshan's melodramatic thriller Karan Arjun.

Shahrukh Khan was initially reticent to portray the role of a lover, but this film is credited with establishing him as a "romantic hero".

In 1996, all four of Shahrukh Khan's releases failed critically and commercially, but the following year, his starring role opposite Aditya Pancholi and Juhi Chawla in Aziz Mirza's romantic comedy Yes Boss earned him accolades that included a Filmfare Best Actor nomination.

Shahrukh Khan portrayed Rahul, a stage director caught in a love triangle between Madhuri Dixit and Karisma Kapoor.

Shahrukh Khan performed the lead role in three films and made one special appearance in 1998.

Shahrukh Khan continued to have frequent professional associations with Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra, and Karan Johar, who moulded his image and made him into a superstar.

Shahrukh 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.

Shahrukh 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.

The company's first production, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, starring Shahrukh Khan and Chawla, was a commercial failure.

Shahrukh Khan thereby made his Tamil debut by playing the role of an archaeologist named Amjad Khan.

Shahrukh Khan performed free of charge as he wanted to work with Haasan.

In 2001, Dreamz Unlimited attempted a comeback with Shahrukh Khan portraying the title role in Santosh Sivan's historical epic Asoka, a partly fictionalised account of the life of emperor Ashoka.

In December 2001, Shahrukh Khan suffered a spinal injury while performing an action sequence for a special appearance in Krishna Vamsi's Shakti: The Power.

Shahrukh Khan was diagnosed with a prolapsed disc, and attempted multiple alternative therapies.

Shahrukh Khan resumed shooting in June 2003, but he reduced his workload and the number of film roles he accepted annually.

In 2002, Shahrukh Khan played the title role as a rebellious alcoholic opposite Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period romance Devdas.

Shahrukh Khan next starred in Kal Ho Naa Ho, 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.

Shahrukh Khan transformed Dreamz Unlimited into Red Chillies Entertainment, adding his wife Gauri as a producer.

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Shahrukh Khan then played an Indian Air Force pilot who falls in love with a Pakistani woman in Yash Chopra's romance film Veer-Zaara, which was screened at the 55th Berlin Film Festival to critical praise.

In December 2013, The Times of India reported that Shahrukh Khan found filming the picture such an emotionally overwhelming and life-changing experience that he had still not viewed the film.

Shahrukh Khan was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award for all three of his 2004 releases and eventually won the award for Swades.

Shahrukh Khan later collaborated with Karan Johar for the third time in the musical romantic drama Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, the story of two unhappily married people in New York City who begin extramarital affairs.

Bhaichand Patel notes that Shahrukh Khan, who had a background in the sport playing for his university's hockey team, essentially portrayed himself as a "cosmopolitan, liberal, Indian Muslim".

Faring well in both India and abroad, Shahrukh Khan garnered another Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his performance, which Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN considers to have been "without any of his typical trappings, without any of his trademark quirks", portraying Kabir Shahrukh Khan "like a real flesh-and-blood human being".

Shahrukh Khan collaborated for the third time with Aditya Chopra on the romantic drama Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi opposite Anushka Sharma, at that time a newcomer.

Shahrukh Khan played Surinder Sahni, a shy man with low self-esteem, whose love for his young arranged wife 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 Shahrukh Khan, giving him the opportunity to display his talents, although Deep Contractor from Epilogue thought Shahrukh Khan displayed greater strength in the role of Surinder and weakness in the role of monologue-prone Raj.

In December 2008, Shahrukh Khan suffered a shoulder injury while filming a small role in Mudassar Aziz's Dulha Mil Gaya.

Shahrukh Khan underwent extensive physiotherapy sessions at the time but the pain left him almost immobile and he had arthroscopic surgery in February 2009.

Shahrukh Khan performed a 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.

Shahrukh Khan covered up the offending word on billboards that had already been installed with the original title.

Jay Wesissberg from Variety noted how Shahrukh 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 2011, Shahrukh Khan starred alongside Arjun Rampal and Kareena Kapoor in Anubhav Sinha's superhero film Ra.

Shahrukh Khan's performance earned him positive reviews from critics; Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India said, "Shah Rukh remains in command and never loses his foothold, neither through the dramatic sequences nor through the action cuts".

CNN-IBN considered the overall performance by Shahrukh Khan to have been one of his finest to date, but believed that Shahrukh Khan's first screen kiss of his career with Katrina Kaif, twenty years his junior, was an awkward one.

At the following Zee Cine Awards, Shahrukh Khan performed a tribute to the late Yash Chopra along with Kaif, Sharma, and several of Chopra's other past heroines.

In 2013, Shahrukh 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.

On 7 March 2013—a day before International Women's Day—The Times of India reported that Shahrukh Khan had requested a new convention with the name of his lead female co-stars appearing above his own in the credits.

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Shahrukh Khan claimed that the women in his life, including his co-stars, have been the reason for his success.

Shahrukh Khan next appeared alongside Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon in Rohit Shetty's action comedy Dilwale.

Shahrukh Khan then took on dual parts of a superstar and his doppelganger fan in Maneesh Sharma's action thriller Fan.

Later that year, Shahrukh Khan portrayed the supporting part of a therapist to an aspiring cinematographer in Gauri Shinde's coming-of-age film Dear Zindagi.

In Rahul Dholakia's action crime film Raees, Shahrukh Khan took on the part of the titular anti-hero—a bootlegger turned mobster in 1980s Gujarat.

Shahrukh Khan returned to the romantic genre with the role of a tourist guide who falls in love with a traveller in Imtiaz Ali's Jab Harry Met Sejal.

Shahrukh Khan next reunited with Sharma and Katrina Kaif in Aanand L Rai's romantic drama Zero, in which he played Bauua Singh, a dwarf involved in a love triangle.

Shahrukh Khan co-produced three films from 1999 to 2003 as a founding member of the partnership Dreamz Unlimited.

Shahrukh Khan was involved in several aspects of the making of Ra.

In 2017, Shahrukh Khan began hosting TED Talks India Nayi Soch, a talk show produced by TED Conferences, LLC which started aired on STAR Plus.

Shahrukh Khan is a frequent stage performer and has participated in several world tours and concerts.

Shahrukh Khan performed alongside Rani Mukherji, Arjun Rampal and Ishaa Koppikar in a 2010 concert at the Army Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

In 2008, Shahrukh Khan set up Temptation Reloaded, a series of concerts that toured several countries, including the Netherlands.

Shahrukh Khan performed alongside Sunidhi Chauhan and Shriya Saran at the opening ceremony of the IPL 2011 season, where they danced to Tamil songs.

Shahrukh Khan appeared again in 2013 alongside Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and Pitbull.

Shahrukh Khan had stated that he acted only after children, including his daughter, were being "manhandled" by the security staff and that the officials were extremely high-handed and aggressive in their behaviour, he had been abused with communal indecent comment.

Later MCA officials had accused him of being drunk in one version of the story, hitting the guard and of completely uncharacteristically abusing a female supporter of Mumbai Indians after the match in another version of the story, which Shahrukh Khan had maintained it was done to support their action and for cheap publicity.

Shahrukh Khan later apologised to his fans after his team won the final match.

Shahrukh Khan is the object of a sometimes fanatical following, with a fan base estimated to exceed one billion.

Shahrukh Khan is one of the wealthiest celebrities in India, topping the Forbes India's "Celebrity 100 list" in 2012,2013 and 2015.

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Shahrukh Khan owns several properties in India and abroad, including a apartment in London, and a villa on the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai.

Shahrukh Khan frequently appears on listings of the most popular, stylish and influential people in India.

Shahrukh Khan is often referred to as "Brand SRK" by media organisations because of his many brand endorsement and entrepreneurship ventures.

Shahrukh Khan is one of the highest paid Bollywood endorsers and one of the most visible celebrities in television advertising, with up to a six per cent share of the television advertisement market.

Shahrukh Khan has endorsed brands including Pepsi, Nokia, Hyundai, Dish TV, D'decor, LUX and TAG Heuer.

In 2007, Shahrukh Khan became the third Indian actor to have his wax statue installed at London's Madame Tussauds museum, after Aishwarya Rai and Amitabh Bachchan.

Shahrukh Khan has been brand ambassador of various governmental campaigns, including Pulse Polio and the National AIDS Control Organisation.

Shahrukh Khan 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.

Shahrukh Khan 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 immunisation campaign.

In 2014, Shahrukh Khan became the ambassador for Interpol's campaign "Turn Back Crime".

In 2015, Shahrukh Khan received a privileged degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

In 2018, Shahrukh Khan was honoured by the World Economic Forum with their annual Crystal Award for his leadership in championing children's and women's rights in India.

Shahrukh Khan offered his 4-storey personal office space to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to be used as a quarantine centre for coronavirus patients.

Shahrukh Khan has received five honorary doctorates; the first from The University of Bedfordshire in 2009, the second from The University of Edinburgh in 2015, the third from Maulana Azad National Urdu University in 2016, and his latest from The University of Law and La Trobe University in 2019.