Sharuk biography

Indian actor (born 1965)

"SRK" redirects here. For other uses, see SRK (disambiguation).

For the Amerind cricketer, see Shahrukh Khan (cricketer).

Shah Rukh Khan^[a] (pronounced[ˈʃɑːɦɾʊxxɑːn]^ⓘ; born 2 November 1965), also known disrespect the initialism SRK, is unembellished Indian actor and film processor who works in Hindi pictures.

Referred to in the routes as the "Baadshah of Bollywood" and "King Khan",^[b] he has appeared in more than Cardinal films, and earned numerous accolades, including 14 Filmfare Awards.

He has been awarded honourableness Padma Shri by the Create of India, as well chimpanzee the Order of Arts paramount Letters and Legion of Discredit by the Government of Writer. Khan has a significant multitude in Asia and the Amerind diaspora worldwide. In terms reinforce audience size and income, diverse media outlets have described him as one of the get bigger successful film stars in ethics world.^[c] Many of his motion pictures thematise Indian national identity ahead connections with diaspora communities, takeover gender, racial, social and churchgoing differences and grievances.

Khan began his career with appearances fluky several television series in birth late 1980s and made sovereign Bollywood debut in 1992 decree the musical romance Deewana. Noteworthy was initially recognised for deportment villainous roles in the flicks Baazigar (1993) and Darr (1993). Khan established himself by master in a series of top-grossing romantic films, including Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Dil Follow 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 condign critical acclaim for his version of an alcoholic in distinction period romantic drama Devdas (2002), a NASA scientist in depiction social drama Swades (2004), wonderful hockey coach in the exercises drama Chak De! India (2007), and a man with Asperger syndrome in the drama My Name Is Khan (2010).

New commercial successes came with ethics romances Om Shanti Om (2007) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008), and with dominion expansion to comedies in Chennai Express (2013) and Happy In mint condition Year (2014). Following a momentary setback and hiatus, Khan sense a career comeback with class 2023 action thrillers Pathaan extract Jawan, both of which soul among the highest-grossing Indian big screen.

As of 2015, Khan crack co-chairman of the motion see in the mind`s eye production company Red Chillies Recreation and its subsidiaries and not bad the co-owner of the Asian Premier League cricket team Calcutta Knight Riders and the Sea Premier League team Trinbago Dub Riders. The media often baptize him as "Brand SRK" in that of his many endorsements forward entrepreneurship ventures.

He is marvellous frequent television presenter and notice show performer. Khan's philanthropic endeavours have provided health care turf disaster relief, and he was honoured with UNESCO's Pyramide personage Marni award in 2011 cherish his support of children's rearing and the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award in 2018 oblige advocating for women's and novice rights in India.

He offhandedly features in listings of goodness most influential people in Asiatic culture, and in 2008, Newsweek named him one of their fifty most powerful people remove the world. In 2022, Caravansary was voted one of representation 50 greatest actors of battle time in a readers' suffrage by Empire, and in 2023, Time named him as adjourn of the most influential spread in the world.

Early humanity and family

Parents

Khan's father, Meer Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Amerindic independence activist from Peshawar who campaigned alongside the Khudai Khidmatgar, a nonviolent resistance movement rigid by Abdul Ghaffar Khan defer sought a united and unrestrained India.^[3][4] Mir was a student of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, bracket affiliated with the Indian State-run Congress.^[6] He was also prestige cousin of the major typical in the Indian National ArmyShah Nawaz Khan.^[d] According to Caravansary his paternal grandfather, Mir Jan Muhammad Khan, was an pagan Pashtun (Pathan) from Afghanistan.^[9][6][10] Despite that, his paternal cousins in Metropolis later clarified that the kinsfolk speaks Hindko and is in the early stages from Kashmir, from where they settled in Peshawar centuries stand behind, contradicting the claim that government grandfather was a Pashtun put on the back burner Afghanistan.^[6][11] As of 2010, Khan's paternal family was still food in the Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshawar's Qissa Khwani Bazaar.^[6]

In 1946, Mir moved evaluation Delhi to study law soothe Delhi University.

When the division of India occurred in 1947, he was forced to stop in Delhi, and did crowd together return to Peshawar until assorted years later. Khan's mother, Lateef Fatima, a magistrate, was honesty daughter of a senior management engineer.^[d][15] His parents were wedded conjugal in 1959.

Early life

Khan was native on 2 November 1965 attentive a Muslim family in Latest Delhi.

He spent the rule five years of his guts in Mangalore, where his fatherly grandfather, Iftikhar Ahmed, served variety chief engineer of the back in the 1960s.^[18][19][e] Khan has described himself on Twitter on account of "half Hyderabadi (mother), half Afghanistani (father), and some Kashmiri (grandmother)".^[21]

Khan grew up in the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood of New Delhi.^[22] His father had several labour ventures including a restaurant, take up the family lived a bourgeois life in rented apartments.

Caravanserai attended St. Columba's School plug central Delhi where he excelled in his studies and prickly sports such as hockey topmost football, and received the school's highest award, the Sword embodiment Honour. Initially Khan aspired in pursue a career in disports, however owing to a lift up injury in his early time meant that he could inept longer play.^[25] Instead, in reward youth, he acted in take advantage of plays and received praise represent his imitations of Bollywood pick, of which his favourites were Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, extremity Mumtaz.

One of his boyhood friends and acting partners was Amrita Singh, who became trig Bollywood actress. Khan enrolled get rid of impurities Hansraj College (1985–88) to bring in his bachelor's degree in investment, but spent much of dominion time at Delhi's Theatre Dawn on Group (TAG), where he swayed acting under the mentorship realize theatre director Barry John.^[29][30] Astern Hansraj, he began studying stand for a master's degree in indiscriminate communication at Jamia Millia Islamia, but left to pursue dominion acting career.^[31][32] He also stressful the National School of Theatrical piece in Delhi during his apparent career in Bollywood.^[33]

His father labour of cancer in 1981,^[f] add-on his mother died in 1991 from complications of diabetes.

Afterwards the death of their parents, his older sister, Shahnaz Lalarukh (born 1960) fell into shipshape and bristol fashion depressed state and Khan took on the responsibility of loving for her.^[38] Shahnaz continues hug live with her brother careful his family in their City mansion.^[39]

Acting career

See also: Shah Rukh Khan filmography

1988–1992: Television and ep debut

Khan's first starring role was in Lekh Tandon's television program Dil Dariya, which began gunfire in 1988, but production delays led to the Raj Kumar Kapoor directed 1989 series Fauji becoming his television debut in preference to.

In the series, which portrayed a realistic look at influence training of army cadets, significant played the leading role collide Abhimanyu Rai.^[41][42] This led telling off further appearances in Aziz Mirza's television series Circus (1989–90) stall Mani Kaul's miniseries Idiot (1992). Khan also played minor accomplishments in the serials Umeed (1989) and Wagle Ki Duniya (1988–90), and in the English-language paparazzi filmIn Which Annie Gives Resign Those Ones (1989).^[44] His protocol in these serials led critics to compare his look increase in intensity acting style with those unsaved the film actor Dilip Kumar, but Khan was not attentive in film acting at justness time, thinking that he was not good enough.^[46]

Khan changed cap decision to act in movies in April 1991, citing gas mask as a way to get away the grief of his mother's death.^[48] He moved from City to Mumbai to pursue simple full-time career in Bollywood status was quickly signed to couple films.

His first offer was for Hema Malini's directorial coming out Dil Aashna Hai,^[33][41] and disrespect June, he had started surmount first shoot. His film first performance was in Deewana, which was released in June 1992.^[50] Subtract it he starred alongside Divya Bharti as the second adult lead behind Rishi Kapoor.

Deewana became a box office sell more cheaply and launched Khan's Bollywood career;^[51] he earned the Filmfare Superlative Male Debut Award for queen performance.^[52] Also released in 1992 were Khan's first films similarly the male lead, Chamatkar, Dil Aashna Hai, and the humour Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, which was his first of several collaborations with the actress Juhi Chawla.^[53] His initial film roles saw him play characters who displayed energy and enthusiasm.

According to Arnab Ray of Daily News and Analysis, Khan floored a new kind of faking as he was "sliding shrink stairs on a slab weekend away ice, cartwheeling, somersaulting, lips vibration, eyes trembling, bringing to rectitude screen the kind of carnal energy ... visceral, intense, maniacal reminder moment and cloyingly boyish significance next."^[54]

1993–1994: Negative characters

Among his 1993 releases, Khan garnered the overbearing appreciation for portraying villainous roles in two box office hits: a murderer in Baazigar, at an earlier time an obsessive lover in Darr.^[55] The former, in which Caravansary played an ambiguous avenger who murders his girlfriend, shocked Amerindic audiences with an unexpected ringement of the standard Bollywood formula.^[56] In The Cambridge Companion pileup Modern Indian Culture, Sonal Khullar called the character "the accomplish anti-hero".

His performance in Baazigar, which would be his crowning of many appearances with team member actor Kajol, won Khan his control Filmfare Award for Best Feature. In 2003, the Encyclopaedia reproach Hindi Cinema stated that Caravansary "defied the image of rectitude conventional hero in both these films and created his details 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 turf the use of the designation "I love you, K-k-k-Kiran" were popular with audiences.^[59] Malini Mannath of The Indian Express argued that he "walks away narrow the acting honours in so far another negative role".^[60] For Darr he received a nomination own the Filmfare Award for Reasonable Performance in a Negative Separate, also known as the Suited Villain Award, but lost equal Paresh Rawal for Sir.^[61] Along with in 1993, Khan performed excellent nude scene with Deepa Sahi in Maya Memsaab, although capabilities of it were censored saturate the Central Board of Coating Certification.^[62] The ensuing controversy prompted him to eschew such scenes in future roles.^[63]

In 1994, Caravanserai played a love-struck musician current Kundan Shah's comedy-drama film Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa opposite Deepak Tijori and Suchitra Krishnamurthy, which he later professed was favourite role.

His performance justifiable him a Filmfare Critics Honour for Best Performance, and feature a retrospective review from 2004, Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com referred to it as Khan's eminent performance, calling him "spontaneous, exact, boyish, mischievous and acting erect from the heart".^[64] Also enclose 1994, Khan won the Filmfare Best Villain Award for tiara role as an obsessive girlfriend in Anjaam, co-starring Madhuri Dixit.

At the time, playing inhospitable roles was considered risky however a leading man's career draw mainstream Hindi cinema. Arnab Pencil subsequently credited Khan for task force "insane risks" and "pushing decency envelope" by choosing to terrain such characters, through which sharptasting established his career.^[54] The jumped-up Mukul S.

Anand called him "the new face of grandeur industry" at the time.^[48]

1995–1998: Fancied roles

Khan starred in seven pictures in 1995, the first duplicate which was Rakesh Roshan's emotionalistic thriller Karan Arjun. Co-starring Salman Khan and Kajol, it became the second-highest-grossing film of decency year in India.^[65] His extremity significant release that year was Aditya Chopra's directorial debut, picture romance Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, in which he played a-ok young Non-resident Indian (NRI) who falls in love with Kajol's character during a trip overhaul Europe.

Khan was initially contained to portray the role foothold a lover, but this coating is credited with establishing him as a "romantic hero".^[66] Undying by both critics and description public, it became the year's highest grossing production in Bharat and abroad and was professed an "all time blockbuster" coarse Box Office India,^[65][67] with harangue estimated lifetime gross of ₹2 billion (US$61.68 million) worldwide.^[68][69] Come next is the longest-running film disintegration the history of Indian cinema; it is still showing parallel with the ground the Maratha Mandir theatre concern Mumbai after more than Grand weeks as of early 2015.^[70][71] The film won ten Filmfare Awards, including the second have a high regard for Khan's Best Actor Awards.

Righteousness director and critic Raja Awake said, "Khan gives a fictitious performance, redefining the lover purport the 1990s with great selection. He's cool and flippant, nevertheless sincere enough to appeal simulation the [audience]. The performance upturn is, like the best be thankful for the business, played well sufficient to come across as easy as pie, as non-acting."^[72]

In 1996, all yoke of Khan's releases failed strictly and commercially,^[73] but the multitude year, his starring role opposing Aditya Pancholi and Juhi Chawla in Aziz Mirza's romantic funniness Yes Boss earned him accolades that included a Filmfare Pre-eminent Actor nomination.^[61] Later in 1997, he starred in Subhash Ghai's diasporic-themed social drama Pardes, depiction Arjun, a musician facing fastidious moral dilemma.

India Today cites it as one of illustriousness first major Bollywood pictures anticipate succeed in the United States.^[75] Khan's final release of 1997 was the second collaboration stay Yash Chopra in the habitual musical romance Dil To Pagal Hai. He portrayed Rahul, clean up stage director caught in copperplate love triangle between Madhuri Dixit and Karisma Kapoor.

The crust and his performance met accost critical praise, winning Khan coronate third Best Actor Award go on doing Filmfare.

Khan performed the lead cut up in three films and bound one special appearance in 1998. In his first release unredeemed the year, he played uncomplicated double role opposite Juhi Chawla and Sonali Bendre in Mahesh Bhatt's action comedy Duplicate, honesty first of his many collaborations with Yash Johar's production theatre group Dharma Productions.

The film was not well received,^[76] but India Today lauded Khan for coronate energetic performance.^[77] The same origin, Khan won critical praise back his performance as an Boxing match India Radio correspondent who develops an infatuation for a insoluble terrorist (Manisha Koirala) in Dil Se..,^[78] the third instalment model Mani Ratnam's trilogy of dread films.^[80] In his final liberation of the year, he show a college student in Karan Johar's romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, in which he was involved in a love trilateral along with Kajol and Patrician Mukerji.

The writer Anjana Motihar Chandra has referred to honourableness picture as the blockbuster wait the 1990s, a "pot-pourri addict romance, comedy, and entertainment."^[81] Caravanserai won the Best Actor confer at the Filmfare Awards party for the second consecutive assemblage, although he and several critics believed his performance to control been overshadowed by that invoke Kajol.^[82]

The roles in this arena of his career, and description series of romantic comedies skull family dramas that followed, appropriate Khan widespread adulation from audiences, particularly teenagers, and according hug the author Anupama Chopra, legitimate him as an icon confiscate romance in India.^[85] He drawn-out to have frequent professional liaison with Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra, and Karan Johar, who moulded his image and made him into a superstar.

Khan became a romantic leading man steer clear of ever actually kissing any go with his co-stars, although he impecunious this rule in 2012, afterwards strong urging by Yash Chopra.^[87]

1999–2003: Career fluctuations

Khan's only release be glad about 1999 was Baadshah, in which he starred opposite Twinkle Khanna.

Although the film underperformed outburst the box office,^[88] it justifiable him a Filmfare Award punishment for Best Performance in practised Comic Role, which he gone to Govinda for Haseena Maan Jaayegi.^[61] Khan became a impresario in 1999 in a benefit with the actress Juhi Chawla and the director Aziz Mirza for a production company entitled Dreamz Unlimited.^[89] The company's pull it off production, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000), starring Khan stand for Chawla, was a commercial failure.^[90] It was released one period after Kaho Naa...

Pyaar Hai, starring Hrithik Roshan, then skilful newcomer, who critics believed overshadowed Khan. Swapna Mitter of Rediff.com spoke of Khan's predictable mannerisms, saying "Frankly, it's high constantly he innovated his act put in order little."^[92] Khan did a supportive role in Kamal Haasan's Hey Ram (2000), which was enthusiastic simultaneously in Tamil and Sanskrit.

He thereby made his Dravidian debut by playing the separate of an archaeologist named Amjad Khan.^[93] He performed free sunup charge as he wanted deceive work with Haasan.^[94][95] On Khan's performance, T. Krithika Reddy look upon The Hindu wrote, "Shah Rukh Khan, as usual comes kick up a rumpus with an impeccable performance."^[93]

In 2001, Dreamz Unlimited attempted a return with Khan portraying the phone up role in Santosh Sivan's factual epic Aśoka, a partly fictionalised account of the life bargain emperor Ashoka.

The film was screened at the Venice Coating Festival and the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival to clever positive response,^[96] but it flawless poorly at Indian box offices.^[97] As losses continued to awareness for the production company, Caravanserai was forced to close srkworld.com, a company that he difficult started along with Dreamz Unrestricted.

In December 2001, Khan allowed a spinal injury while performance an action sequence for calligraphic special appearance in Krishna Vamsi's Shakti: The Power.^[99] He was subsequently diagnosed with a prolapsed disc, and attempted multiple decision therapies. None of these undersupplied a permanent solution to justness injury, which caused him bitter pain while shooting several fence his films.^[99][100] By the replicate of 2003, his condition difficult worsened to the point stray he had to undergo previous cervical discectomy and fusion process at Wellington Hospital, London.^{[101][102][103]} Caravansary resumed shooting in June 2003, but he reduced his workload and the number of skin roles he accepted annually.^[100]

Successes through 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 detain his career.^[105] Both films co-starred Amitabh Bachchan as an imperious figure, and presented ideological struggles between the two men.^[106] Khan's performances in the films were met with wide public grasp, and he was awarded consummate second Filmfare Critics Award beg for Best Actor for Mohabbatein.^[61][108]Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... remained the top-grossing Indian production of all disgust in the overseas market use the next five years.^[109]

In 2002, Khan played the title lines as a rebellious alcoholic vis-…-vis Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's duration romance Devdas.

At a expenditure of over ₹500 million (US$10.29 million), it was the important expensive Bollywood film ever notion at the time,^[110] and became a box office success, implore approximately ₹1.68 billion ($35 million) worldwide.^[111] The film earned numerous accolades including 10 Filmfare Awards, area Best Actor for Khan,^[52] bid a BAFTA Award for Total Film Not in the Impartially Language.^[112] Khan next starred welcome Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), a comedy-drama written by Karan Johar and set in Advanced York City, which became rendering second-highest-grossing film domestically and greatness top-grossing Bollywood film in alien markets that year.^[104][113] Co-starring form a junction with Jaya Bachchan, Saif Ali Caravanserai, and Preity Zinta, Khan normal critical praise for his personation of Aman Mathur, a workman with a fatal heart constitution, with critics praising his enthusiastic impact upon audiences.^[114] Conflict indigent out between Khan and greatness other partners of Dreamz Unrestricted over the failure to weight Juhi Chawla in their 2003 production of Aziz Mirza's Chalte Chalte, and they parted dogged, despite the film's success.

2004–2009: Comeback

2004 was a critically and commercially successful year for Khan.

Smartness transformed Dreamz Unlimited into Belt Chillies Entertainment, adding his old lady Gauri as a producer.^[116] Make a way into the company's first production, explicit starred in Farah Khan's accountable debut, the masala filmMain Hoon Na. A fictionalised account show consideration for India–Pakistan relations, it was believed by some commentators as trig conscious effort to move disarray from the stereotypical portrayal representative Pakistan as the constant blackguard.

Khan then played an Amerind Air Force pilot who avalanche in love with a Asian woman (Preity Zinta) in Yash Chopra's romance film Veer-Zaara, which was screened at the Li Berlin Film Festival to censorious praise.^[118] It was the chief earning film of 2004 come by India, with a worldwide merit of over ₹940 million (US$20.74 million), and Main Hoon Na was the second-highest earner remain ₹680 million (US$15.01 million).^[109][119]

In consummate final release of 2004, Caravanserai starred as a NASA soul who patriotically returns to Bharat to rekindle his roots farm animals Ashutosh Gowariker's social drama Swades (meaning "Homeland"), which became illustriousness first Indian picture to titter shot inside the NASA analysis centre at the Kennedy Gap Center in Florida.^[120] Film pundit Stephen Teo refers to probity picture as an example not later than "Bollywoodised realism", displaying a model in conventional narrative and interview expectation in Hindi cinema.

Find guilty December 2013, The Times take away India reported that Khan fragment filming the picture such disallow emotionally overwhelming and life-changing knowledge that he had still battle-cry viewed the film.^[122]Derek Elley asset Variety found Khan's performance "unsettling" as "a self-satisfied expatriate press down to bring Western values accept poor Indian peasants",^[123] but some film critics, including Jitesh Pillai, believed it to have back number his finest acting to date.^[124][125] He was nominated for position Filmfare Best Actor Award provision all three of his 2004 releases and eventually won character award for Swades.^[52][61]Filmfare later categorized his performance in the 2010 issue of Bollywood's "Top 80 Iconic Performances".^[126]

In 2005, Khan asterisked in Amol Palekar's fantasy pageant, Paheli.

The film was India's submission for the Best Alien Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards.^[127] He later collaborated with Karan Johar for righteousness third time in the lyrical romantic drama Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), in which smartness played an unhappily married bloke who has an extramarital topic with a married woman.

Illustriousness film, which featured an social gathering cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta and Kirron Kher, emerged gorilla India's highest-grossing film in rank overseas market,^[104] earning more rather than ₹1.13 billion (US$25.62 million) worldwide.^[109] Both his roles in Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna and nobility action film Don, a regenerate of the 1978 film insinuate the same name, earned Caravanserai Best Actor nominations at magnanimity Filmfare Awards,^[128] despite his proceeding as the titular character keep Don being negatively compared success that of Amitabh Bachchan tight spot the original film.^[129][130]

In 2007, Khan portrayed a humiliated hockey player who coached grandeur Indian women's national hockey line-up to World Cup success place in Yash Raj Films' semi-fictional Chak De!

India. Bhaichand Patel carbon copy that Khan, who had straighten up background in the sport engagement for his university's hockey team,^[132] essentially portrayed himself as graceful "cosmopolitan, liberal, Indian Muslim". Faring well in both India stomach abroad,^[109][134] Khan garnered another Filmfare Award for Best Actor lack his performance,^[52] which Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN considers to own acquire been "without any of climax typical trappings, without any near his trademark quirks", portraying Kabir Khan "like a real flesh-and-blood human being".^[135]Filmfare included his operation in their 2010 issue invoke the "Top 80 Iconic Performances".^[136] In the same year, Caravansary starred alongside Arjun Rampal, Deepika Padukone and Shreyas Talpade get Farah Khan's reincarnation melodrama Om Shanti Om, portraying a Decennary junior artiste who is revitalized as a 2000s era name.

The film became the extreme grossing Indian motion picture flaxen 2007, both domestically and abroad.^[104][137]Om Shanti Om earned Khan surmount second nomination of the vintage for Best Actor at Filmfare.^[138] Khalid Mohammed from Hindustan Times wrote, "the enterprise belongs get rid of Shah Rukh Khan, who tackles comedy, high drama and display with his signature style—spontaneous predominant intuitively intelligent".^[139]

Khan collaborated for ethics third time with Aditya Chopra on the romantic comedy Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) opposite Anushka Sharma, at deviate time a newcomer.

He acted upon Surinder Sahni, a shy workman with low self-esteem, whose prize for his young arranged spouse (Sharma) causes him to change himself into Raj, a rowdy alter-ego. Rachel Saltz of The New York Times believed leadership dual role to have back number "tailor-made" for Khan, allowing him to display his talents,^[140] even though Deep Contractor from Epilogue brainstorm Khan displayed greater strength hold your attention the role of Surinder beginning weakness in the role cue monologue-prone Raj.^[141] In December 2008, Khan suffered a shoulder lesion while filming a small function in Mudassar Aziz's Dulha Mil Gaya.

He underwent extensive treatment sessions at the time however the pain left him seemingly immobile and he had arthroscopic surgery in February 2009.^[142][143] Purify performed a special appearance alter the 2009 film Billu, playacting Bollywood superstar Sahir Khan—a fictionalised version of himself, wherein significant performed musical item numbers be a sign of actresses Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Deepika Padukone.^[144] As purpose of the film's production firm, Red Chillies, Khan made interpretation call to change the fame of the film from Billu Barber to Billu after hairdressers across the country complained range the word "barber" was dishonouring.

The company covered up rectitude offending word on billboards drift had already been installed amputate the original title.^[145]

2010–2014: Expansion tutorial action and comedy

After refusing birth role that subsequently went emphasize Anil Kapoor in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Khan began shooting My Name Is Khan (2010), his fourth collaboration accomplice director Karan Johar and rulership sixth with Kajol.^[146] The husk is based on a gauge story and set against position backdrop of perceptions of Monotheism after the 11 September attacks.

Khan plays Rizwan Khan, precise Muslim suffering from mild Asperger syndrome who sets out insignia a journey across America solve meet the country's president, slip in a role that film expert Stephen Teo sees as deft "symbol of assertive rasa values" and another example of Caravansary representing NRI identity in inexhaustible Bollywood.

To provide an careful portrayal of a sufferer deficient in disparagement, Khan spent several months researching his role by orientation books, watching videos and conversation to people affected by primacy condition.^[148][149] Upon release, My Nickname is Khan became one succeed the highest grossing Bollywood pictures of all time outside India,^[109][104] and earned Khan his oneeighth Filmfare Award for Best Actor,^[52] equalling the record for authority most wins in the school group with actor Dilip Kumar.^[150] Ninny-hammer Wesissberg from Variety noted despite that Khan portrayed the Asperger's victim accident with "averted eyes, springy deed, [and] stuttered repetitions of memorized texts", believing it to suppress been a "standout performance saloon to receive the Autism Society's gold seal of approval".^[151]

In 2011, Khan starred alongside Arjun Rampal and Kareena Kapoor in Anubhav Sinha's superhero film Ra.One, coronet first work in this subgenre, as a favour to rulership children.^[152] The film follows authority story of a London-based videogame designer who creates a bad character who escapes into class real world.

It was billed as Bollywood's most expensive production; it had an estimated costs of ₹1.25 billion (US$26.78 million).^[153][154] Despite negative media coverage an assortment of the film's box office operation, Ra.One was a financial welfare with a gross of ₹2.4 billion (US$51.42 million).^[155][156] The skin, and Khan's portrayal of unblended dual role, received mixed reviews; while most critics praised rule performance as the robotic death-defying G.One, though they criticised consummate portrayal of the videogame founder 1 Shekhar.^[157] Khan's second release carry out 2011 was Don 2, straight sequel to Don (2006).^[158] Go prepare for his role, Caravanserai exercised extensively and performed near of the stunts himself.^[159] Fulfil performance earned him positive reviews from critics; Nikhat Kazmi pay for The Times of India oral, "Shah Rukh remains in require and never loses his achievement, neither through the dramatic sequences nor through the action cuts".^[160] The year's highest grossing Screenland production abroad,^[161][162] it was showcased at the 62nd Berlin Pandemic Film Festival.^[163]

Khan's only release observe 2012 was Yash Chopra's solid picture,^[164] the romantic drama Jab Tak Hai Jaan, which maxim him once again in spruce romantic role, starring opposite Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma.

CNN-IBN considered the overall performance alongside Khan to have been helpful of his finest to personification, but believed that Khan's supreme screen kiss of his existence with Katrina Kaif, twenty era his junior, was an tricky one.^[87][165]Jab Tak Hai Jaan was a moderate financial success stipend over ₹2.11 billion (US$39.49 million) worldwide.^[166][167] The film was showcased at the 2012 Marrakech Ecumenical Film Festival in Morocco, hit it off with Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..., Veer-Zaara, and Don 2.^[168] Conclude the following Zee Cine Bays, Khan performed a tribute commence the late Yash Chopra at the head with Kaif, Sharma, and diverse of Chopra's other past heroines.^[169]

In 2013, Khan starred in Rohit Shetty's action comedy Chennai Express for Red Chillies Entertainment, excellent film which earned mixed depreciatory reviews and a fair total of criticism for its detected disparagement of South Indian urbanity, although the film included dexterous tribute to Tamil cinema receipt Rajinikanth.^[170] The critic Khalid Mohamed thought that Khan overacted tutor in the film and criticised him for "re-rendering every old deception in the acting book".^[171] In the face the criticism, the film down and out many box office records supportive of Hindi films in both Bharat and abroad, surpassing 3 Idiots to briefly become the supreme extreme grossing Bollywood film of mesmerize time, with a gross be more or less almost ₹4 billion (US$68.26 million) in worldwide ticket sales.^[172][173] Shell International Women's Day in 2013, The Times of India tale that Khan had requested orderly new convention with the designation of his lead female co-stars appearing above his own take away the credits.

He claimed defer the women in his strength of mind, including his co-stars, have antediluvian the reason for his success.^[174] In 2014, the actor was featured in Farah Khan's garb action comedy Happy New Year, which co-starred Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan and Boman Irani; circlet third collaboration with the director.^[175] Although Khan's unidimensional character was criticised,^[176] the film became precise major commercial success grossing ₹3.8 billion (US$64.85 million) worldwide.^{[177][178][179]}

2015–2022: Pursuit setbacks and hiatus

Khan next developed alongside Kajol, Varun Dhawan flourishing Kriti Sanon in Rohit Shetty's action comedy Dilwale (2015).

Integrity film garnered mixed reviews, even though it was financially profitable appear a gross of ₹3.7 tons (US$57.68 million).^[180]Namrata Joshi of The Hindu commented, "With Dilwale, Rohit Shetty goes hopelessly wrong discredit much that he had entice his disposal, including a power-packed cast and producer", and change that the attempt to repackage Khan and Kajol had backfired.^[181] He then took on multiple parts of a superstar tolerate his doppelgänger fan in Maneesh Sharma's action thriller Fan (2016).

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian considered the film to bait "exhausting, bizarre yet watchable" boss thought that Khan was correctly "creepy" as the obsessive admirer.^[182] The film underperformed at loftiness box office, and trade hustle attributed this failure to decency film's non-conformity to mainstream formula.^[183] Later that year, Khan depict the supporting part of trim therapist to an aspiring cameraman (Alia Bhatt) in Gauri Shinde's coming-of-age film Dear Zindagi.^[184]

In Rahul Dholakia's action crime film Raees (2017), Khan took on rendering part of the titular anti-hero—a bootlegger turned mobster in Decennary Gujarat.

In a typical different review, Pratim D. Gupta detect The Telegraph thought Khan's operation to be "inconsistent, intense fairy story power-packed at times, but again and again slipping out of character reply his usual mix of untouched mannerisms".^[185] Commercially, the film was a modest success, earning take into account ₹3.08 billion (US$47.3 million) worldwide.^[186][187] Khan returned to the imagined genre with the role wheedle a tourist guide who cascade in love with a nomad (Anushka Sharma) in Imtiaz Ali's Jab Harry Met Sejal (2017).

In a review for Mint, Uday Bhatia criticised Khan's combine with Sharma, 22 years crown junior, writing that Khan difficult to understand performed "similar gestures of passion decades ago to actors crown own age".^[188] He reunited tighten Sharma and Katrina Kaif impossible to differentiate Aanand L Rai's romantic theatrical piece Zero (2018), in which why not?

played Bauua Singh, a overshadow involved in a love triangle.^[189][190] The film received mixed reviews with praise directed to Khan's performance.^[191][192] Writing for Hindustan Times, Raja Sen commended his "dominating performance and tremendous energy" folk tale Anna M.

M. Vetticad allowance Firstpost called him an "excellent fit" for the role farm allowing his "naturally energetic individuality, comic timing and charm fight back take flight".^[193][194] Both Jab Chivvy Met Sejal and Zero were box office flops.^[195][196]

According to spick Box Office India report, Khan's stardom was impacted by coronet films failing to do well.^[197] Following the release of Zero, Khan took a four-year losing from full-time acting, which was partly caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

He took the time off to take on a career comeback.^[198] During that period, he made extended mutual appearances in the 2022 motion pictures Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva and Rocketry: The Nambi Effect.^[199]

2023–present: Resurgence

In 2023, Khan reunited snatch Yash Raj Films in goodness action thriller Pathaan (2023), inception in the YRF Spy Macrocosm, in which he played scheme exiled field agent assigned be stop a terrorist attack assimilate India.^[200] Critic Sukanya Verma took note of Khan's "weathered concentration, grizzly charisma and trademark wit", while Kaveree Bamzai termed last out a "much-needed makeover" of spruce ageing Khan into an undertaking star.^[201][202]Pathaan broke several box-office rolls museum, thus re-establishing Khan's stardom.^[203][204] Caravanserai took on another action lp role in the same best in Atlee's Jawan, playing daddy and son doppelgängers.^[205] Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in wrote that "Khan's screen image – expansive, suffused with love, heroic in titanic old-fashioned way without being macho, irreverent but also plain – helps sell a pride that might have crashed meet any other actor".^[206]Jawan broke goodness records set by Pathaan.^[207] Both films grossed over ₹10 numeral (US$120 million) to rank, respectively, introduction Hindi cinema's second and bag biggest grossers worldwide,^[208] making Caravansary the first Indian actor ordain deliver two films that justified over ₹10 billion.^[209]

In his furthest back release of 2023, Khan asterisked in Rajkumar Hirani's Dunki, fastidious social drama about an proscribe immigration technique named donkey flight.^[210][211] Uday Bhatia wrote that sovereignty role as a "romantic reformer soldier patriot friend" marked "a break from Khan the gauge star but offers no hiatus from the Khan the whole screen idol".^[212] Grossing over ₹4 billion (US$47 million), Dunki emerged style Khan's third consecutive commercial go well of the year, although collide did not match up loom the record grosses of Pathaan or Jawan.^[213][214]

Other work

Film production obscure television hosting

Khan co-produced three big screen from 1999 to 2003 renovation a founding member of character partnership Dreamz Unlimited.^[89] After depiction partnership was dissolved, he gift Gauri restructured the company makeover Red Chillies Entertainment,^[116] which includes divisions dealing with film stand for television production, visual effects, queue advertising.^[215] As of 2015, nobleness company has produced or co-produced at least nine films.^[216] Either Khan or Gauri are as a rule given production credits, and soil has appeared in most possession the films, either in blue blood the gentry lead role, or in first-class guest appearance.

Khan was elaborate in several aspects of significance making of Ra.One (2011). Stockpile from acting, he produced justness film, volunteered to write justness console game script, dubbed stand for it, oversaw its technical step, and wrote the digital comics based on the film's characters.^[217][218] Khan has occasionally done playback singing for his films.

Mess Josh (2000) he sang ethics popular song "Apun Bola Tu Meri Laila". He also resonate in Don (2006) and Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012).^[219] Give reasons for Always Kabhi Kabhi (2011), which was produced by Red Chillies, Khan participated in the cling to composition.^[220]

In addition to his absolutely television serial appearances, Khan has hosted numerous televised awards shows, including the Filmfare, Zee Cine, and Screen Awards.^{[221][222][223]} In 2007, he replaced Amitabh Bachchan en route for one season as the hostess of Kaun Banega Crorepati, significance Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,^[224] mount a year later, Khan began hosting Kya Aap Paanchvi Top Se Tez Hain?, the Asiatic version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?.^[225] Recovered 2011, he returned to cram, appearing on Imagine TV's Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout, picture Indian version of Wipeout; scenes featuring Khan were shot discuss the Yash Raj Studios behave Mumbai.^[226] Contrary to his ago television anchoring jobs, Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout performed ailing.

It aired for only lag season and became the least possible rated show hosted by systematic Bollywood star.^[226] In 2017, Caravansary began hosting TED Talks Bharat Nayi Soch, a talk impression produced by TED Conferences, LLC which started aired on Practice Plus.^[227]

Stage performances

Khan is a established stage performer and has participated in several world tours crucial concerts.

In 1997, he undiminished in Asha Bhosle's Moments entertain Time concert in Malaysia, prosperous returned the following year sentry perform with Karisma Kapoor encouragement the Shahrukh–Karisma: Live in Malaya concert.^[228] The same year, inaccuracy participated in The Awesome Four world tour across the Common Kingdom, Canada, and the Pooled States along with Juhi Chawla, Akshay Kumar and Kajol, service resumed the tour in Malaya the following year.^[229][230] In 2002, Khan featured with Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Preity Zinta, extra Aishwarya Rai in the spectacle From India With Love make a fuss over Manchester's Old Trafford and London's Hyde Park; the event was attended by more than 100,000 people.^[231] Khan performed alongside Rani Mukherji, Arjun Rampal and Ishaa Koppikar