Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan pronounced 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 80 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 South Asian diaspora worldwide. In terms of audience size and income. He has been described as one of the most successful film stars in the world. Many of his films thematise Indian national identity and connections with diaspora communities gender racial social and religious differences and grievances.Khan began his career with appearances in several television series in the late 1980 and had his Bollywood debut in 1992 with Deewana. He was initially recognised 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 and Veer Zaara 2004. He earned critical acclaim for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Devdas 2002 a NASA scientist in Swades 2004 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.
Early life and family
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 1960 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.As of 2010 Khan's paternal family was still living in the Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshawar's Qissa Khwani Bazaar. Mir moved to New Delhi in 1948 after the partition of India.Khan's mother, Lateef Fatima, was the daughter of a senior government engineer. His parents were married in 1959.
Khan described himself on Twitter as "half Hyderabadi mother half Pathan father and some Kashmiri grandmother". 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.
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