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Indian actor Born: November 2, 1965 (age 55 years), New Delhi, India Height: 1.69 m Spouse: Gauri Khan (m. 1991) Children: Aryan Khan, Suhana Khan, AbRam Khan Parents: Taj Mohammed Khan, Lateef Fatima Khan Height: 5’ 8” Nickname(s) • SRK • King Khan • King of Romance • Baadshah Profession(s) • Actor • Producer • Entrepreneur Height (approx.) in centimeters- 173 cm in meters- 1.73 m in feet inches- 5’ 8” Weight (approx.) in kilograms- 75 kg in pounds- 165 lbs Body Measurements (approx.) – Chest: 40 inches – Waist: 32 inches – Biceps: 14 inches Eye Colour Dark Brown Hair Colour Black Date of Birth 2 November 1965 Birthplace New Delhi Zodiac sign Scorpio Signature Nationality Indian Hometown New Delhi School St. Columba’s School, Delhi College/University • Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Delhi • Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi Educational Qualification(s) • BA (Hons.) • Masters Degree in Mass Communications (Filmmaking) Religion Islam Ethnicity Pathan Food Habit Non-Vegetarian Hobbies Playing Computer Games, Collecting Gadgets, Playing Cricket Likes/Dislikes Likes: Cricket, Books, Computer and Video Games, Hi-Tech Gadgets, Rain, Colognes Dislikes: Sentimentality and Displaying his own feelings, Liars, Early Mornings, Heat, Getting clicked while eating Marital Status Married Affairs/Girlfriends Gauri Chibber Marriage Date 25 October 1991 Wife/Spouse Gauri Khan (Indian Film Producer and Interior Designer) Children Son(s)- • Aryan Khan • AbRam Khan (Through Surrogacy) Daughter- Suhana Khan Parents Father- Taj Mohammad Khan (Businessman) Mother- Lateef Fatima (Magistrate, Social Worker) Siblings Brother- None Sister- Shahnaz Lalarukh (Elder)
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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 1960s. Khan’s father, Meer 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 (also known as Bacha Khan or the “Frontier Gandhi”) that sought a united and independent India. Meer was a follower of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and affiliated with the Indian National Congress. As of 2010, Khan’s paternal family was still living in the Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshawar’s Qissa Khwani Bazaar. Meer 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, Meer Jan Muhammad Khan, was originally from Afghanistan. His paternal cousins in Peshawar claim that the family speaks Hindko and is originally from Kashmir, contradicting the claim that his grandfather was from Afghanistan. Khan grew up in the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood of New Delhi. His father had several business ventures including a restaurant, and the family lived a middle-class life in rented apartments. 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. Initially Khan aspired to pursue a career in sports, however owing to a shoulder injury in his early years meant that he could no longer play. Instead, in his youth, he acted in stage plays and received praise for his imitations of Bollywood actors, of which his favourites were Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, and Mumtaz. One of his childhood friends and acting partners was Amrita Singh, who became a Bollywood actress. Khan enrolled at Hansraj College (1985–88) to earn his bachelor’s degree in economics, but spent much of his time at Delhi’s Theatre Action Group (TAG), where he studied acting under the mentorship of theatre director Barry John. After Hansraj, he began studying for a master’s degree in mass communication at Jamia Millia Islamia, but left to pursue his acting career. He also attended the National School of Drama in Delhi during his early career in Bollywood. His father died of cancer in 1981, and his mother died in 1991 from complications of diabetes. After the death of their parents, his older sister, Shahnaz Lalarukh (born 1960) fell into a depressed state and Khan took on the responsibility of caring for her. Shahnaz continues to live with her brother and his family in their Mumbai mansion. Although Khan was given the birth name Shahrukh Khan, he prefers his name to be written as Shah Rukh Khan, and is commonly referred to by the acronym SRK. He married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991, after a six-year courtship. They have a son Aryan (born 1997) and a daughter Suhana (born 2000). In 2013, they became parents of a third child, a son named AbRam,[45] who was born through a surrogate mother. Both his elder children have expressed interest in entering the entertainment industry; Khan has stated that Aryan, who is studying film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in California, aspires to become a writer-director, while Suhana, who served as assistant director for Khan’s film Zero (2018), is studying drama and acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for higher education. Suhana made her acting debut in November 2019, in a short film titled “The Grey Part of Blue.” According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Islam, he also values his wife’s religion. His children follow both religions; at his home the Qur’an is situated next to the Hindu deities. Shah Rukh Khan was born into a middle-class family; his father used to run a transport company and his mother was a magistrate. At the time of his birth, he was named Abdul Rehman by his maternal grandmother; however, his father later named him Shah Rukh Khan. His family used to live in rental houses. Initially, they lived in a bungalow in Rajinder Nagar’s F Block. Later, when Shah Rukh turned 15, they shifted to Gautam Nagar. During an interview, he told that his mother was a South-Indian and belonged to Andhra Pradesh, who later moved to Karnataka. He spent his childhood at his maternal grandparents’ house in Bengaluru. Shah Rukh Khan’s father was an acquaintance of the noted Indian freedom fighter, Subhash Chandra Bose; as his father was the cousin of General Shah Nawaz, who was the second-in-command to Subhash Chandra. His parents had a love marriage. They met each other for the first time in a hospital, where his mother was injured and needed blood. At that time, his father donated blood to his mother. Their love started at that moment. He was named Shahrukh, which means “Face of the King,” but he prefers to write his name as Shah Rukh Khan. Shah Rukh Khan has an immense love for video games. He was a sportsman in his school days. Once, while he was playing football in the Dr. Ambedkar Stadium in Delhi, he kicked a ball during a penalty and tore up his entire right side muscle. He was then, on bed rest for a month and his sports career came to an end. Apart from being good at sports like football, hockey, and cricket, Shah Rukh was also fond of the many popular Indian street games like flying the kites and playing Gilli-Danda and Kancha (Marbles). While playing Cricket in his school and college days, Shah Rukh mostly used to do wicket-keeping. He was awarded the ‘Sword of Honor’ title at St. Columba’s School, New Delhi, which was assigned to the best student of the school. During an interview, he shared that he doesn’t take shower on Sundays. In his school days, Shah Rukh, along with four of his close friends, Bikash Mathur, Vivek Khushalani, Raman Sharma, and Ashok Vassan, had formed a special gang at St Columba’s School, known as the C-gang, where ‘C’ stood for cool. He was just 15 years old when his father died due to cancer in 1981. In his youth, he used to mimic the legendary Bollywood actors like Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Mumtaz, etc. While he was in Hansraj College, SRK was closely involved with the Theatre Action Group (TAG) and was mentored by Barry John. His first salary was ₹50, which he earned by working as an escort at Pankaj Udhas‘s concert in Delhi. Once, he even tried to expand a small restaurant in Dariya Ganj, but it didn’t work. After receiving his first salary, Shah Rukh took the train to Agra and visited the Taj Mahal. His friend, Vivek Vaswani, helped him in his struggling days. The latter also went on to work with him as a co-actor in the films, Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman and Josh. He was first offered a role in Lekh Tandon’s television show “Dil Dariya,” but there were continuous delays in the broadcasting of the show, which led his series “Fauji” to become his television debut. A strong reason to do Fauji was that before coming into the field of acting, Shah Rukh wanted to join the Indian Army. He has done small roles in the TV serials like “Umeed,” “Wagle Ki Duniya,” and “Mahan Karz.” He even featured in the English film “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones,” in which he worked with Arundhati Roy. The film is also considered his debut English film. Shah Rukh Khan in a still from In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (L), a young Arundhati Roy (R) After his mother’s demise in 1991, he shifted to Mumbai along with his sister. SRK got his first offer in Hema Malini‘s directional debut “Dil Aashna Hai,” but he made his acting debut with “Deewana,” which was released in June 1992. Subsequently, he featured in films like “Chamatkar,” “Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman,” “Maya Memsaab,” “King Uncle,” “Baazigar,” and “Darr.” He even did a cameo in the Bollywood film “Pehla Nasha.” Although he doesn’t stammer in his real life, his dialogue “I love you K…k…k Kiran” from the film “Darr” became an evergreen hit. In 1994, he signed the film “Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa” and was offered an amount of ₹25,000 only for the entire film. He even sold the movie tickets at the booking window on the opening day of the film in one of the cinemas in Mumbai. He became a household name after the blockbuster film “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge.” While shooting for the song “Chaiya Chaiya” from the film “Dil Se” on a moving train, Shah Rukh was the only person who was not tied to the train. All the other dancers were tied to the train for protection. By the late 90s, he had become a public sensation, especially among teenagers and was identified as an icon of romance in India without even actually kissing any of his co-stars on screen till then, which led him to earn the title of the “King of Romance.” Besides ruling the world of acting, he is also famous for his hosting skills, which has been justified through a plethora of award shows starting with the 48th Filmfare Awards and then in a row- 49th, 52nd, 53rd, 55th, 57th, 58th, 61st, 62nd, and 63rd Filmfare awards. He has also hosted the 20th and 21st Life OK Screen Awards, and 6th, and 14th International Indian Film Academy Awards. SRK also hosted the season 3 of the game reality show, Kaun Banega Crorepati; broadcasted on Sony Entertainment. Shah Rukh hosted the game show “Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?” which was an Indian version of the popular American game show, “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” He has a fear of riding horses and hates eating ice-creams. SRK, along with Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta, bought the ownership rights to the franchise representing Kolkata in the Twenty20 cricket tournament IPL for $75.09 million and later, renamed it to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). He has also been the brand ambassador of various government campaigns like “Pulse Polio” and “National AIDS Control Organisation.” He was delegated by the UNOPS as the first global ambassador of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council. In 2012, SRK made his first on-screen kiss in the film “Jab Tak Hai Jaan.” In 2013, Shah Rukh Khan founded the Meer Foundation (NGO), which works to rehabilitate burn and acid attack survivors and empower women in India. In the same year, his biography titled “King Khan: The Official Opus of Shah Rukh Khan” was published, which made him the first Indian actor and the second Indian citizen, after Sachin Tendulkar, to have his biography published by Kraken Opus. On 27 May 2013, his son, AbRam Khan, was born through surrogacy. SRK’s double role in the film “Fan” received great laurels from the viewers. For this movie, he was transformed into a 25-year-old individual, and this challenge was taken up by the International makeup artist, Greg Cannom, who has won three Academy Awards. In 2017, he came up with an Indian talk show- TED Talks India Nayi Soch produced by TED conferences. SRK was conferred the 24th annual Crystal Award by World Economic Forum for his tremendous work for women empowerment, acid attacks victims, and child rights. He has his wax statue showcased in London’s Madame Tussaud’s Museum. SRK has charmed the people worldwide with his signature pose, i.e., spreading his arms wide open unto the blue azure skies. In 2018, Aanand L. Rai came up with a movie titled “Zero,” featuring Shah Rukh Khan in the lead role. The film was also in news for Sridevi‘s last appearance in films. SRK has a great obsession towards numerology and is very much superstitious about the number 555; as he believes it brings good luck for him. Moreover, most of his cars have registered number 555 and his personal e-mail ID also contains the same number. Despite believing in Islam, he equally values his wife’s religion and teaches his children too, to do the same. He once told that at his home, the Qur’an was situated next to the Hindu Gods. Shah Rukh Khan revealed in an interview that he was not a nature lover. In 2019, he made headlines for his appearance in a series of videos for Dubai Tourism’s #BeMyGuest campaign. In the video, he was seen alongside superheroes Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor; as they joined hands to solve a riddle in Dubai. In October 2019, Shah Rukh Khan appeared on David Letterman’s talk show, which featured on Netflix. He is a night person and sleeps every day at around 5 in the morning. During the 2019 Diwali bash at Amitabh Bachchan‘s house, Shah Rukh Khan saved Aishwarya Rai‘s manager, Archana Sadanand, from fire. Archana was with her daughter in the courtyard when her lehenga caught fire. While everyone else got stunned by the incident, Shah Rukh rushed to her and put out the fire.