Shah Rukh Khan is one of the famous Indian actor of Bollywood industry. He was born on November 02, 1965 in Indian city New Delhi. His father name is Meer Taj Mohammad Khan and his mother name is Lateef Fatima Khan.
In his family, he also has one sister, named Shehnaz Lalarukh. Most of the peoples are not aware about the early life of Shah Rukh Khan, as he spent his early life with his grandparents in Bangalore. According to reports, his father Meer Taj Khan was running a restaurant in Delhi. But later on his father Meer Taj Khan died in 1981, and his mother also later on died in the year of 1991.
When both of their parents, father and mother, died his sister fell into a depressed state. After, both his sister and Shah Rukh Khan came to Mumbai where Khan started his film career. Shah Rukh Khan is not only an Indian actor, but he is also a film producer, television popular personality and entrepreneur.
Personal Life
Shah Rukh Khan married Gauri Chhibber on October 25th, 1991. From her, he has three children. Two are their sons, named Aryan Khan, who was born in 1997, AbRam, who is born in 2013 and one is their daughter, named Suhana who was born in 2000. According to Mardan Times, Shah Rukh Khan father, Mir Taj Mohammad Khan was an Indian Independence activist, hailing from Peshawar city, situated in now in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.
His father Mir Taj Mohammad Khan has actively campaigned alongside the Khudai Khidmatgar, a non-violent resistance movement. This movement was founded and led by Abdul Ghafar Khan that was in favor united and independent India. The father of Shah Rukh Khan was a strong follower of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and he was also strongly affiliated with Indian national congress at that time.
While talking about his family back grounds, his paternal grandfather, Mir Jan Mohammad, was an ethnic Pashtun who belongs to Afghanistan. However, his cousin, who are living in Peshawar, later on denied his statement and opinion, and clarified that his family speaks Hindko language and their family originally belongs from Kashmir, from where they relocated in Peshawar long long ago. However, Shah Rukh Khan paternal family is still living in Peshawar, Qissa Khwani Bazaar.
Shah Rukh Khan Father Mir Taj Mohammad went to Delhi in 1946 to study law subject at Delhi University. At that time partition of India occurred in the year of 1947, and his father was unable to come back to Peshawar due to violence in different parts of the United India.
Shah Rukh Khan Career:
Now we will talk about his career that how he started it. So, Khan took start by acting in numerous television serials from 1988 – 1990. He started acting for the first time in his first successful and commercial film Deewana in 1992.
After that he worked in several popular box office movies like Darr in 1993, Anjaam in 1994 and Baazigar in 1993. Due to his outstanding performance in Bollywood film industry, he won about eight Film-fare best actor awards. This figure is the highest by any actor in Bollywood industry. In addition to the above mentioned Bollywood movies, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Om Shanti Om and Chak De India are other famous movies.
Awards
As Shah Rukh Khan is one of the most famous and highest paid actor in Bollywood industry, and it is the main reason that he earned several awards in this industry. He is also known as the Bollywood King Khan. He appeared in more than 90 films. And due to his eye-caching performance in these movies, the Indian Government awarded him as Padma Shri award. Furthermore, he also won the Legion of the Honor award from the government of France.
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Social Media Activity:
Shah Rukh Khan has tremendous social media followers and widely active on social media networks. He has millions of followers on twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social networks. Peoples have made a large number of groups on Facebook after their names, which also has millions of group members.
Shah Rukh Khan as of 2015:
Shah Rukh Khan is not only engaged in acting in Bollywood movies, but also doing other activities alongside. He is also the co-chairman of the motion picture production company Red Chillies Entertainment and its subsidiaries. Furthermore, Khan is also the co-owner of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tem Kolkata Knight Riders. He is also the co-owner of Caribbean Premier League (CPL) team Trinbago Knight Riders.
In addition to the above activities, Khan is also a television presenter and also a popular stage performer. Furthermore, he is also involved in philanthropic and social activities and have provided disaster and health care relief in many parts of India.
Due to his social and philanthropic work, he was awarded the UNESCO Pyramid con Marni award in 2011 due to his support of children’s education in India. Similarly, he also earned the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award in the year of 2018 for advocating women’s and children’s rights in India.
