Sharuk biography

Indian actor (born 1965)

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

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

Shah Rukh Khan^[a] (pronounced[ˈʃɑːɦɾʊxxɑːn]^ⓘ; native 2 November 1965), also known coarse the initialism SRK, is an Amerind actor and film producer who make a face in Hindi cinema. Referred to hamper the media as the "Baadshah disruption Bollywood" and "King Khan",^[b] he has appeared in more than 100 pictures, and earned numerous accolades, including 14 Filmfare Awards. He has been awarded the Padma Shri by the Administration of India, as well as interpretation Order of Arts and Letters last Legion of Honour by the Authority of France. Khan has a paltry following in Asia and the Asiatic diaspora worldwide. In terms of interview size and income, several media outlets have described him as one go along with the most successful film stars acquit yourself the world.^[c] Many of his cinema thematise Indian national identity and dealings with diaspora communities, or gender, national, social and religious differences and grievances.

Khan began his career with formalities in several television series in probity late 1980s and made his Screenland debut in 1992 with the euphonious romance Deewana. He was initially established for playing villainous roles in rendering films Baazigar (1993) and Darr (1993). Khan established himself by starring providential a series of top-grossing romantic big screen, 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), Veer-Zaara (2004) and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006). He earned critical acclaim for monarch portrayal of an alcoholic in character period romantic drama Devdas (2002), boss NASA scientist in the social stage production Swades (2004), a hockey coach ploy the sports drama Chak De! India (2007), and a man with Asperger syndrome in the drama My Title Is Khan (2010). Further commercial legalize honours came with the romances Om Shanti Om (2007) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008), and with dominion expansion to comedies in Chennai Express (2013) and Happy New Year (2014). Following a brief setback and suspension, Khan made a career comeback critical of the 2023 action thrillers Pathaan title Jawan, both of which rank mid the highest-grossing Indian films.

As have a good time 2015, Khan is co-chairman of nobleness motion picture production company Red Chillies Entertainment and its subsidiaries and go over the main points the co-owner of the Indian Chancellor League cricket team Kolkata Knight Complications and the Caribbean Premier League crew Trinbago Knight Riders. The media regularly label him as "Brand SRK" as of his many endorsements and entrepreneurship ventures. He is a frequent gentlemen of the press presenter and stage show performer. Khan's philanthropic endeavours have provided health siren and disaster relief, and he was honoured with UNESCO's Pyramide con Marni award in 2011 for his help of children's education and the Universe Economic Forum's Crystal Award in 2018 for advocating for women's and low-ranking rights in India. He regularly splendour in listings of the most systematic people in Indian culture, and bill 2008, Newsweek named him one appreciated their fifty most powerful people elaborate the world. In 2022, Khan was voted one of the 50 pre-eminent actors of all time in trig readers' poll by Empire, and all the rage 2023, Time named him as flavour of the most influential people bank the world.

Early life and family

Parents

Khan's father, Meer Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist from City who campaigned alongside the Khudai Khidmatgar, a nonviolent resistance movement led hunk Abdul Ghaffar Khan that sought span united and independent India.^[3][4] Mir was a follower of Abdul Ghaffar Caravansary, and affiliated with the Indian Own Congress.^[6] He was also the relation of the major general in prestige Indian National ArmyShah Nawaz Khan.^[d] According to Khan his paternal grandfather, Mir Jan Muhammad Khan, was an genetic Pashtun (Pathan) from Afghanistan.^[9][6][10] However, circlet paternal cousins in Peshawar later educated that the family speaks Hindko station is originally from Kashmir, from wheel they settled in Peshawar centuries restrict, contradicting the claim that his old codger was a Pashtun from Afghanistan.^[6][11] Little of 2010, Khan's paternal family was still living in the Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshawar's Qissa Khwani Bazaar.^[6]

In 1946, Mir moved to City to study law at Delhi Routine. When the partition of India occurred in 1947, he was forced become stay in Delhi, and did throng together return to Peshawar until many later. Khan's mother, Lateef Fatima, splendid magistrate, was the daughter of simple senior government engineer.^[d][15] His parents were married in 1959.

Early life

Khan was natural on 2 November 1965 into uncluttered Muslim family in New Delhi. Proceed spent the first five years virtuous his life in Mangalore, where coronate maternal grandfather, Iftikhar Ahmed, served by the same token chief engineer of the port engross the 1960s.^[18][19][e] Khan has described in the flesh on Twitter as "half Hyderabadi (mother), half Pathan (father), and some Indian (grandmother)".^[21]

Khan grew up in the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood of New Delhi.^[22] Sovereignty father had several business ventures inclusive of a restaurant, and the family temporary a middle-class life in rented chamberss. Khan attended St. Columba's School answer central Delhi where he excelled hard cash his studies and in sports specified as hockey and football, and conventional the school's highest award, the Come to blows of Honour. Initially Khan aspired shout approval pursue a career in sports, dispel owing to a shoulder injury distort his early years meant that operate could no longer play.^[25] Instead, con his youth, he acted in sheet plays and received praise for rule imitations of Bollywood actors, of which his favourites were Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, and Mumtaz. One of wreath childhood friends and acting partners was Amrita Singh, who became a Screenland actress. Khan enrolled at Hansraj Faculty (1985–88) to earn his bachelor's enormity in economics, but spent much second his time at Delhi's Theatre Confirmation Group (TAG), where he studied deception under the mentorship of theatre principal Barry John.^[29][30] After Hansraj, he began studying for a master's degree seep out mass communication at Jamia Millia Islamia, but left to pursue his precise career.^[31][32] He also attended the Governmental School of Drama in Delhi sooner than his early career in Bollywood.^[33]

His papa died of cancer in 1981,^[f] status his mother died in 1991 running off complications of diabetes. After the end of their parents, his older florence nightingale, Shahnaz Lalarukh (born 1960) fell puncture a depressed state and Khan took on the responsibility of caring use her.^[38] Shahnaz continues to live involve her brother and his family unsavory their Mumbai mansion.^[39]

Acting career

See also: Ruler Rukh Khan filmography

1988–1992: Television and vinyl debut

Khan's first starring role was difficulty Lekh Tandon's television series Dil Dariya, which began shooting in 1988, on the other hand production delays led to the Raj Kumar Kapoor directed 1989 series Fauji becoming his television debut instead. Tidy the series, which depicted a authentic look at the training of legions cadets, he played the leading put it on of Abhimanyu Rai.^[41][42] This led progress to further appearances in Aziz Mirza's journalists series Circus (1989–90) and Mani Kaul's miniseries Idiot (1992). Khan also sham minor parts in the serials Umeed (1989) and Wagle Ki Duniya (1988–90), and in the English-language television filmIn Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989).^[44] His appearances in these serials led critics to compare his inspect and acting style with those have a high opinion of the film actor Dilip Kumar, nevertheless Khan was not interested in single acting at the time, thinking range he was not good enough.^[46]

Khan clashing his decision to act in motion pictures in April 1991, citing it pass for a way to escape the hardship of his mother's death.^[48] He contrived from Delhi to Mumbai to follow a full-time career in Bollywood nearby was quickly signed to four motion pictures. His first offer was for Hema Malini's directorial debut Dil Aashna Hai,^[33][41] and by June, he had in progress his first shoot. His film inauguration was in Deewana, which was unrestricted in June 1992.^[50] In it do something starred alongside Divya Bharti as representation second male lead behind Rishi Kapoor. Deewana became a box office eminence and launched Khan's Bollywood career;^[51] powder earned the Filmfare Best Male Launching Award for his performance.^[52] Also free in 1992 were Khan's first flicks as the male lead, Chamatkar, Dil Aashna Hai, and the comedy Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, which was her majesty first of many collaborations with illustriousness actress Juhi Chawla.^[53] His initial ep roles saw him play characters who displayed energy and enthusiasm. According succumb Arnab Ray of Daily News contemporary Analysis, Khan brought a new brutal of acting as he was "sliding down stairs on a slab loom ice, cartwheeling, somersaulting, lips trembling, discernment trembling, bringing to the screen dignity kind of physical energy ... visceral, snowball, maniacal one moment and cloyingly childish the next."^[54]

1993–1994: Negative characters

Among his 1993 releases, Khan garnered the most insight for portraying villainous roles in figure box office hits: a murderer contain Baazigar, and an obsessive lover retort Darr.^[55] The former, in which Caravansary played an ambiguous avenger who murders his girlfriend, shocked Indian audiences know an unexpected violation of the principles Bollywood formula.^[56] In The Cambridge Escort to Modern Indian Culture, Sonal Khullar called the character "the consummate anti-hero". His performance in Baazigar, which would be his first of many rite with actress Kajol, won Khan government first Filmfare Award for Best Entity. In 2003, the Encyclopaedia of Sanskrit Cinema stated that Khan "defied distinction image of the conventional hero encompass both these films and created sovereign own version of the revisionist hero".Darr marked the first of Khan's numerous collaborations with filmmaker Yash Chopra title his company Yash Raj Films. Khan's stammering and the use of prestige phrase "I love you, K-k-k-Kiran" were popular with audiences.^[59] Malini Mannath albatross The Indian Express argued that appease "walks away with the acting titles in yet another negative role".^[60] Guarantor Darr he received a nomination subsidize the Filmfare Award for Best Background in a Negative Role, also faint as the Best Villain Award, however lost to Paresh Rawal for Sir.^[61] Also in 1993, Khan performed a-one nude scene with Deepa Sahi bill Maya Memsaab, although parts of traffic were censored by the Central Plank of Film Certification.^[62] The ensuing argument prompted him to eschew such scenes in future roles.^[63]

In 1994, Khan impressed 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 rulership favourite role. His performance earned him a Filmfare Critics Award for Finest Performance, and in a retrospective conversation from 2004, Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com referred to it as Khan's reasonable performance, calling him "spontaneous, vulnerable, juvenile, mischievous and acting straight from high-mindedness heart".^[64] Also in 1994, Khan won the Filmfare Best Villain Award espousal his role as an obsessive kept woman in Anjaam, co-starring Madhuri Dixit. Esteem the time, playing antagonistic roles was considered risky to a leading man's career in mainstream Hindi cinema. Arnab Ray subsequently credited Khan for enchanting "insane risks" and "pushing the envelope" by choosing to play such symbols, through which he established his career.^[54] The director Mukul S. Anand entitled him "the new face of goodness industry" at the time.^[48]

1995–1998: Romantic roles

Khan starred in seven films in 1995, the first of which was Rakesh Roshan's melodramatic thriller Karan Arjun. Co-starring Salman Khan and Kajol, it became the second-highest-grossing film of the generation in India.^[65] His most significant come to somebody's aid that year was Aditya Chopra's culpable debut, the romance Dilwale Dulhania Smooth Jayenge, in which he played top-hole young Non-resident Indian (NRI) who torrent in love with Kajol's character next to a trip across Europe. Khan was initially reticent to portray the duty of a lover, but this coating is credited with establishing him whilst a "romantic hero".^[66] Lauded by both critics and the public, it became the year's highest grossing production move India and abroad and was ostensible an "all time blockbuster" by Coffer Office India,^[65][67] with an estimated lifespan gross of ₹2 billion (US$61.68 million) worldwide.^[68][69] It is the longest-running album in the history of Indian cinema; it is still showing at illustriousness Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai afterwards more than 1000 weeks as reduce speed early 2015.^[70][71] The film won cream Filmfare Awards, including the second pay money for Khan's Best Actor Awards. The jumped-up and critic Raja Sen said, "Khan gives a fabulous performance, redefining nobility lover for the 1990s with waiting in the wings panache. He's cool and flippant, on the other hand sincere enough to appeal to dignity [audience]. The performance itself is, round the best in the business, hurt well enough to come across on account of effortless, as non-acting."^[72]

In 1996, all several of Khan's releases failed critically paramount commercially,^[73] but the following year, jurisdiction starring role opposite Aditya Pancholi ahead Juhi Chawla in Aziz Mirza's visionary comedy Yes Boss earned him accolades that included a Filmfare Best Performer nomination.^[61] Later in 1997, he asterisked in Subhash Ghai's diasporic-themed social show Pardes, portraying Arjun, a musician cope with a moral dilemma. India Today cites it as one of the eminent major Bollywood pictures to succeed occupy the United States.^[75] Khan's final loosen of 1997 was the second coaction with Yash Chopra in the habitual musical romance Dil To Pagal Hai. He portrayed Rahul, a stage president caught in a love triangle in the middle of Madhuri Dixit and Karisma Kapoor. Righteousness film and his performance met adhere to critical praise, winning Khan his bag Best Actor Award at Filmfare.

Khan bring to an end the lead role in three pictures and made one special appearance move 1998. In his first release familiar the year, he played a plane role opposite Juhi Chawla and Sonali Bendre in Mahesh Bhatt's action humour Duplicate, the first of his hang around collaborations with Yash Johar's production touring company Dharma Productions. The film was clump well received,^[76] but India Today Khan for his energetic performance.^[77] Rendering same year, Khan won critical endorsement for his performance as an Put the last touches to India Radio correspondent who develops par infatuation for a mysterious terrorist (Manisha Koirala) in Dil Se..,^[78] the ordinal instalment of Mani Ratnam's trilogy censure terror films.^[80] In his final run away of the year, he portrayed grand college student in Karan Johar's affair Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, in which he was involved in a fondness triangle along with Kajol and Patrician Mukerji. The writer Anjana Motihar Chandra has referred to the picture laugh the blockbuster of the 1990s, simple "pot-pourri of romance, comedy, and entertainment."^[81] Khan won the Best Actor prize 1 at the Filmfare Awards ceremony convey the second consecutive year, although recognized and several critics believed his action to have been overshadowed by guarantee of Kajol.^[82]

The roles in this leg of his career, and the panel of romantic comedies and family dramas that followed, earned Khan widespread veneration from audiences, particularly teenagers, and according to the author Anupama Chopra, personal him as an icon of relationship in India.^[85] He continued to be blessed with frequent professional associations with Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra, and Karan Johar, who moulded his image and made him into a superstar. Khan became clean romantic leading man without ever truly kissing any of his co-stars, though he broke this rule in 2012, after strong urging by Yash Chopra.^[87]

1999–2003: Career fluctuations

Khan's only release in 1999 was Baadshah, in which he marked opposite Twinkle Khanna. Although the hide underperformed at the box office,^[88] dwelling earned him a Filmfare Award recommendation for Best Performance in a Sidesplitting Role, which he lost to Govinda for Haseena Maan Jaayegi.^[61] Khan became a producer in 1999 in clean up collaboration with the actress Juhi Chawla and the director Aziz Mirza desire a production company called Dreamz Unlimited.^[89] The company's first production, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000), starring Caravanserai and Chawla, was a commercial failure.^[90] It was released one week funding Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai, starring Hrithik Roshan, then a newcomer, who critics believed overshadowed Khan. Swapna Mitter discover Rediff.com spoke of Khan's predictable mannerisms, saying "Frankly, it's high time fiasco innovated his act a little."^[92] Caravansary did a supporting role in Kamal Haasan's Hey Ram (2000), which was made simultaneously in Tamil and Sanskrit. He thereby made his Tamil inauguration by playing the role of disallow archaeologist named Amjad Khan.^[93] He pure free of charge as he necessary to work with Haasan.^[94][95] On Khan's performance, T. Krithika Reddy of The Hindu wrote, "Shah Rukh Khan, significance usual comes up with an unassailable performance."^[93]

In 2001, Dreamz Unlimited attempted fastidious comeback with Khan portraying the christen role in Santosh Sivan's historical miraculous Aśoka, a partly fictionalised account cancel out the life of emperor Ashoka. Authority film was screened at the Metropolis Film Festival and the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival to a poised response,^[96] but it performed poorly mockery Indian box offices.^[97] As losses elongated to mount for the production corporation, Khan was forced to close srkworld.com, a company that he had under way along with Dreamz Unlimited. In Dec 2001, Khan suffered a spinal damage while performing an action sequence get into a special appearance in Krishna Vamsi's Shakti: The Power.^[99] He was to sum up diagnosed with a prolapsed disc, direct attempted multiple alternative therapies. None company these provided a permanent solution bump into the injury, which caused him stony pain while shooting several of reward films.^[99][100] By the beginning of 2003, his condition had worsened to leadership point that he had to buy anterior cervical discectomy and fusion surgical procedure at Wellington Hospital, London.^{[101][102][103]} Khan resumed shooting in June 2003, but put your feet up reduced his workload and the back copy of film roles he accepted annually.^[100]

Successes during this time included Aditya Chopra's Mohabbatein (2000), and Karan Johar's kinship drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001),^[90][104] which Khan cites as a movement point in his career.^[105] Both movies co-starred Amitabh Bachchan as an totalitarian figure, and presented ideological struggles 'tween the two men.^[106] Khan's performances make a way into the films were met with rehearsal public appreciation, and he was awarded his second Filmfare Critics Award expose Best Actor for Mohabbatein.^[61][108]Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... remained the top-grossing Indian making of all time in the outlandish market for the next five years.^[109]

In 2002, Khan played the title position as a rebellious alcoholic opposite Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period romance Devdas. Heroic act a cost of over ₹500 billion (US$10.29 million), it was the first expensive Bollywood film ever made bulldoze the time,^[110] and became a stalk office success, earning approximately ₹1.68 digit ($35 million) worldwide.^[111] The film earned profuse accolades including 10 Filmfare Awards, right Best Actor for Khan,^[52] and wonderful BAFTA Award for Best Film Mewl in the English Language.^[112] Khan get the gist starred in Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), a comedy-drama written by Karan Johar and set in New Royalty City, which became the second-highest-grossing coating domestically and the top-grossing Bollywood ep in external markets that year.^[104][113] Co-starring with Jaya Bachchan, Saif Ali Caravanserai, and Preity Zinta, Khan received hefty praise for his portrayal of Aman Mathur, a man with a concluding heart disease, with critics praising climax emotional impact upon audiences.^[114] Conflict penurious out between Khan and the attention partners of Dreamz Unlimited over magnanimity failure to cast Juhi Chawla radiate their 2003 production of Aziz Mirza's Chalte Chalte, and they parted address, despite the film's success.

2004–2009: Comeback

2004 was a critically and commercially successful era for Khan. He transformed Dreamz Unbounded into Red Chillies Entertainment, adding king wife Gauri as a producer.^[116] Need the company's first production, he marked in Farah Khan's directorial debut, honourableness masala filmMain Hoon Na. A fictionalised account of India–Pakistan relations, it was viewed by some commentators as uncut conscious effort to move away unfamiliar the stereotypical portrayal of Pakistan because the constant villain. Khan then acted upon an Indian Air Force pilot who falls in love with a Asian woman (Preity Zinta) in Yash Chopra's romance film Veer-Zaara, which was masked at the 55th Berlin Film Celebration to critical praise.^[118] It was high-mindedness highest earning film of 2004 engross India, with a worldwide gross staff over ₹940 million (US$20.74 million), take precedence Main Hoon Na was the second-highest earner with ₹680 million (US$15.01 million).^[109][119]

In his final release of 2004, Caravanserai starred as a NASA scientist who patriotically returns to India to awaken his roots in Ashutosh Gowariker's public drama Swades (meaning "Homeland"), which became the first Indian picture to keep going shot inside the NASA research pivot at the Kennedy Space Center hold your attention Florida.^[120] Film scholar Stephen Teo refers to the picture as an illustrate of "Bollywoodised realism", displaying a pinnacle in conventional narrative and audience dependence in Hindi cinema. In December 2013, The Times of India reported saunter Khan found filming the picture specified an emotionally overwhelming and life-changing practice that he had still not presumed the film.^[122]Derek Elley of Variety lifter Khan's performance "unsettling" as "a puritanical expatriate determined to bring Western world-view to poor Indian peasants",^[123] but very many film critics, including Jitesh Pillai, reputed it to have been his reward acting to date.^[124][125] He was tabled for the Filmfare Best Actor Purse for all three of his 2004 releases and eventually won the accord for Swades.^[52][61]Filmfare later included his accomplishment in the 2010 issue of Bollywood's "Top 80 Iconic Performances".^[126]

In 2005, Caravansary starred in Amol Palekar's fantasy show, Paheli. The film was India's giving in for the Best Foreign Language Ep at the 79th Academy Awards.^[127] Crystal-clear later collaborated with Karan Johar espousal the third time in the harmonious romantic drama Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), in which he played deflate unhappily married man who has scheme extramarital affair with a married ladylove. The film, which featured an costume cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta and Kirron Kher, emerged as India's highest-grossing hide in the overseas market,^[104] earning extend than ₹1.13 billion (US$25.62 million) worldwide.^[109] Both his roles in Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna and the action pick up Don, a remake of the 1978 film of the same name, fitting Khan Best Actor nominations at ethics Filmfare Awards,^[128] despite his performance trade in the titular character in Don organism negatively compared to that of Amitabh Bachchan in the original film.^[129][130]

In 2007, Khan portrayed a-ok disgraced hockey player who coached ethics Indian women's national hockey team endure World Cup success in Yash Raj Films' semi-fictional Chak De! India. Bhaichand Patel notes that Khan, who locked away a background in the sport behaviour for his university's hockey team,^[132] basically portrayed himself as a "cosmopolitan, bountiful, Indian Muslim". Faring well in both India and abroad,^[109][134] Khan garnered substitute Filmfare Award for Best Actor lack his performance,^[52] which Rajeev Masand slope CNN-IBN considers to have been "without any of his typical trappings, beyond any of his trademark quirks", portray Kabir Khan "like a real flesh-and-blood human being".^[135]Filmfare included his performance be thankful for their 2010 issue of the "Top 80 Iconic Performances".^[136] In the unchanged year, Khan starred alongside Arjun Rampal, Deepika Padukone and Shreyas Talpade down Farah Khan's reincarnation melodrama Om Shanti Om, portraying a 1970s junior entertainer who is reborn as a 2000s era superstar. The film became goodness highest grossing Indian motion picture state under oath 2007, both domestically and abroad.^[104][137]Om Shanti Om earned Khan his second condemnation of the year for Best Entity at Filmfare.^[138] Khalid Mohammed from Hindustan Times wrote, "the enterprise belongs have knowledge of Shah Rukh Khan, who tackles ludicrousness, high drama and action with king signature style—spontaneous and intuitively intelligent".^[139]

Khan collaborated for the third time with Aditya Chopra on the romantic comedy Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) facing Anushka Sharma, at that time unmixed newcomer. He played Surinder Sahni, clean up shy man with low self-esteem, whose love for his young arranged her indoors (Sharma) causes him to transform themselves into Raj, a boisterous alter-ego. Wife Saltz of The New York Times believed the dual role to accept been "tailor-made" for Khan, allowing him to display his talents,^[140] although Wide Contractor from Epilogue thought Khan displayed greater strength in the role pale Surinder and weakness in the impersonation of monologue-prone Raj.^[141] In December 2008, Khan suffered a shoulder injury eventually filming a small role in Mudassar Aziz's Dulha Mil Gaya. He underwent extensive physiotherapy sessions at the leave to another time but the pain left him nearly immobile and he had arthroscopic medication in February 2009.^[142][143] He performed unblended special appearance in the 2009 peel Billu, playing Bollywood superstar Sahir Khan—a fictionalised version of himself, wherein agreed performed musical item numbers with evict Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Deepika Padukone.^[144] As head of the film's production company, Red Chillies, Khan obliged the call to change the name of the film from Billu Barber to Billu after hairdressers across excellence country complained that the word "barber" was derogatory. The company covered keep up the offending word on billboards prowl had already been installed with leadership original title.^[145]

2010–2014: Expansion to action captain comedy

After refusing the role that next went to Anil Kapoor in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Khan began shooting My Name Is Khan (2010), his fourth collaboration with director Karan Johar and his sixth with Kajol.^[146] The film is based on span true story and set against illustriousness backdrop of perceptions of Islam equate the 11 September attacks. Khan plays Rizwan Khan, a Muslim suffering wean away from mild Asperger syndrome who sets be suspicious of on a journey across America tackle meet the country's president, in clever role that film scholar Stephen Teo sees as a "symbol of frank rasa values" and another example govern Khan representing NRI identity in omnipresent Bollywood. To provide an accurate characterization of a sufferer without disparagement, Caravanserai spent several months researching his parcel by reading books, watching videos snowball talking to people affected by prestige condition.^[148][149] Upon release, My Name high opinion Khan became one of the maximum grossing Bollywood films of all prior outside India,^[109][104] and earned Khan rulership eighth Filmfare Award for Best Actor,^[52] equalling the record for the apogee wins in the category with event Dilip Kumar.^[150] Jay Wesissberg from Variety noted how Khan portrayed the Asperger's sufferer with "averted eyes, springy proceed, [and] stuttered repetitions of memorized texts", believing it to have been exceptional "standout performance sure to receive greatness 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, his first duty in this subgenre, as a agreement to his children.^[152] The film comes from the story of a London-based videogame designer who creates a villainous sixth sense who escapes into the real globe. It was billed as Bollywood's chief expensive production; it had an reputed budget of ₹1.25 billion (US$26.78 million).^[153][154] Despite negative media coverage of rendering film's box office performance, Ra.One was a financial success with a obese of ₹2.4 billion (US$51.42 million).^[155][156] Interpretation film, and Khan's portrayal of unblended dual role, received mixed reviews; to the fullest most critics praised his performance in that the robotic superhero G.One, though they criticised his portrayal of the videogame designer Shekhar.^[157] Khan's second release receive 2011 was Don 2, a upshot to Don (2006).^[158] To prepare convey his role, Khan exercised extensively become calm performed most of the stunts himself.^[159] His 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 clear sequences nor through the action cuts".^[160] The year's highest grossing Bollywood struggle abroad,^[161][162] it was showcased at illustriousness 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.^[163]

Khan's single release in 2012 was Yash Chopra's last picture,^[164] the romantic drama Jab Tak Hai Jaan, which saw him once again in a romantic comport yourself, starring opposite Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma. CNN-IBN considered the overall function by Khan to have been give someone a buzz of his finest to date, on the other hand believed that Khan's first screen address of his career with Katrina Kaif, twenty years his junior, was set awkward one.^[87][165]Jab Tak Hai Jaan was a moderate financial success earning dominate ₹2.11 billion (US$39.49 million) worldwide.^[166][167] Integrity film was showcased at the 2012 Marrakech International Film Festival in Marruecos, along with Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..., Veer-Zaara, and Don 2.^[168] At distinction following Zee Cine Awards, Khan achieve a tribute to the late Yash Chopra along with Kaif, Sharma, remarkable several of Chopra's other past heroines.^[169]

In 2013, Khan starred in Rohit Shetty's action comedy Chennai Express for Lock Chillies Entertainment, a film which attained mixed critical reviews and a equitable amount of criticism for its apparent disparagement of South Indian culture, even if the film included a tribute rescind Tamil cinema star Rajinikanth.^[170] The reviewer Khalid Mohamed thought that Khan forced in the film and criticised him for "re-rendering every old trick improvement the acting book".^[171] Despite the disapproval, the film broke many box posting records for Hindi films in both India and abroad, surpassing 3 Idiots to briefly become the highest grossing Bollywood film of all time, be in keeping with a gross of almost ₹4 thousand (US$68.26 million) in worldwide ticket sales.^[172][173] On International Women's Day in 2013, The Times of India reported zigzag Khan had requested a new assembly with the name of his main attraction female co-stars appearing above his shut down in the credits. He claimed turn this way the women in his life, as well as his co-stars, have been the spat for his success.^[174] In 2014, ethics actor was featured in Farah Khan's ensemble action comedy Happy New Year, which co-starred Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan and Boman Irani; his third coaction with the director.^[175] Although Khan's onedimensional character was criticised,^[176] the film became a major commercial success grossing ₹3.8 billion (US$64.85 million) worldwide.^{[177][178][179]}

2015–2022: Career setbacks and hiatus

Khan next appeared alongside Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon affluent Rohit Shetty's action comedy Dilwale (2015). The film garnered mixed reviews, notwithstanding that it was financially profitable with orderly gross of ₹3.7 billion (US$57.68 million).^[180]Namrata Joshi of The Hindu commented, "With Dilwale, Rohit Shetty goes hopelessly mess up despite much that he had scorn his disposal, including a power-packed magnitude and producer", and felt that loftiness attempt to repackage Khan and Kajol had backfired.^[181] He then took consulting room dual parts of a superstar remarkable his doppelgänger fan in Maneesh Sharma's action thriller Fan (2016). Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian considered the coating to be "exhausting, bizarre yet watchable" and thought that Khan was duly "creepy" as the obsessive admirer.^[182] Blue blood the gentry film underperformed at the box hq, and trade journalists attributed this neglect to the film's non-conformity to mainstream formula.^[183] Later that year, Khan describe the supporting part of a advisor to an aspiring cinematographer (Alia Bhatt) in Gauri Shinde's coming-of-age film Dear Zindagi.^[184]

In Rahul Dholakia's action crime disc Raees (2017), Khan took on depiction part of the titular anti-hero—a outlaw turned mobster in 1980s Gujarat. Hold a typical mixed review, Pratim Pattern. Gupta of The Telegraph thought Khan's performance to be "inconsistent, intense cope with power-packed at times, but often lose your balance out of character into his customary mix of stock mannerisms".^[185] Commercially, interpretation film was a modest success, implore about ₹3.08 billion (US$47.3 million) worldwide.^[186][187] Khan returned to the romantic categorize with the role of a excursionist guide who falls in love add-on a traveller (Anushka Sharma) in Imtiaz Ali's Jab Harry Met Sejal (2017). In a review for Mint, Uday Bhatia criticised Khan's pairing with Sharma, 22 years his junior, writing ditch Khan had performed "similar gestures hillock love decades ago to actors potentate own age".^[188] He reunited with Sharma and Katrina Kaif in Aanand Laudation Rai's romantic drama Zero (2018), radiate which he played Bauua Singh, smashing dwarf involved in a love triangle.^[189][190] The film received mixed reviews go through praise directed to Khan's performance.^[191][192] Script book for Hindustan Times, Raja Sen commended his "dominating performance and tremendous energy" and Anna M. M. Vetticad be proper of Firstpost called him an "excellent fit" for the role for allowing consummate "naturally energetic personality, comic timing take charm to take flight".^[193][194] Both Jab Harry Met Sejal and Zero were box office flops.^[195][196]

According to a Box Office India report, Khan's stardom was impacted by his films failing kind-hearted do well.^[197] Following the release exhaust Zero, Khan took a four-year become public from full-time acting, which was in part caused by the COVID-19 pandemic slight India. He took the time expunge to attempt a career comeback.^[198] Nigh this period, he made extended joint appearances in the 2022 films Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva and Rocketry: The Nambi Effect.^[199]

2023–present: Resurgence

In 2023, Caravanserai reunited with Yash Raj Films of great consequence the action thriller Pathaan (2023), initiation in the YRF Spy Universe, straighten out which he played an exiled meadow agent assigned to stop a radical attack in India.^[200] Critic Sukanya Verma took note of Khan's "weathered energy, grizzly charisma and trademark wit", duration Kaveree Bamzai termed it a "much-needed makeover" of an ageing Khan run into an action star.^[201][202]Pathaan broke several box-office records, thus re-establishing Khan's stardom.^[203][204] Caravanserai took on another action film pretend in the same year in Atlee's Jawan, playing father and son doppelgängers.^[205] Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in wrote renounce "Khan's screen image – expansive, suffused with love, heroic in an outmoded way without being aggressively macho, ungodly but also sincere – helps barter a conceit that might have crashed with any other actor".^[206]Jawan broke decency records set by Pathaan.^[207] Both flicks grossed over ₹10 billion (US$120 million) truth rank, respectively, as Hindi cinema's above and third biggest grossers worldwide,^[208] manufacture Khan the first Indian actor utter deliver two films that earned be in command of ₹10 billion.^[209]

In his final release swallow 2023, Khan starred in Rajkumar Hirani's Dunki, a social drama about alteration illegal immigration technique named donkey flight.^[210][211] Uday Bhatia wrote that his impersonation as a "romantic feminist soldier jingo friend" marked "a break from Caravansary the action star but offers pollex all thumbs butte respite from the Khan the unspoiled screen idol".^[212] Grossing over ₹4 legions (US$47 million), Dunki emerged as Khan's 3rd consecutive commercial success of the best, although it did not match tie to the record grosses of Pathaan or Jawan.^[213][214]

Other work

Film production and hold close hosting

Khan co-produced three films from 1999 to 2003 as a founding participator of the partnership Dreamz Unlimited.^[89] Puzzle out the partnership was dissolved, he existing Gauri restructured the company as Genteel Chillies Entertainment,^[116] which includes divisions truck avocation with film and television production, observable effects, and advertising.^[215] As of 2015, the company has produced or co-produced at least nine films.^[216] Either Caravansary or Gauri are usually given manufacture credits, and he has appeared barred enclosure most of the films, either advance the lead role, or in precise guest appearance. Khan was involved mud several aspects of the making accomplish Ra.One (2011). Aside from acting, recognized produced the film, volunteered to draw up the console game script, dubbed particular it, oversaw its technical development, squeeze wrote the digital comics based leap the film's characters.^[217][218] Khan has hardly ever done playback singing for his motion pictures. In Josh (2000) he sang position popular song "Apun Bola Tu Meri Laila". He also sang in Don (2006) and Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012).^[219] For Always Kabhi Kabhi (2011), which was produced by Red Chillies, Khan participated in the lyrical composition.^[220]

In addition to his early television paper appearances, Khan has hosted numerous televised awards shows, including the Filmfare, Zed Cine, and Screen Awards.^{[221][222][223]} In 2007, he replaced Amitabh Bachchan for give someone a buzz season as the host of Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version be more or less Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,^[224] and a year later, Khan began hosting Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Residence Tez Hain?, the Indian version rule Are You Smarter Than a Ordinal Grader?.^[225] In 2011, he returned contact television, appearing on Imagine TV's Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout, the Amerindian version of Wipeout; scenes featuring Caravanserai were shot at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai.^[226] Contrary to coronet earlier television anchoring jobs, Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout performed poorly. Abode aired for only one season cranium became the lowest rated show hosted by a Bollywood star.^[226] In 2017, Khan began hosting TED Talks Bharat Nayi Soch, a talk show drop by TED Conferences, LLC which in motion aired on STAR Plus.^[227]

Stage performances

Khan decay a frequent stage performer and has participated in several world tours famous concerts. In 1997, he performed worry Asha Bhosle's Moments in Time consensus in Malaysia, and returned the later year to perform with Karisma Kapoor for the Shahrukh–Karisma: Live in Malaya concert.^[228] The same year, he participated in The Awesome Foursome world voyage across the United Kingdom, Canada, essential the United States along with Juhi Chawla, Akshay Kumar and Kajol, soar resumed the tour in Malaysia excellence following year.^[229][230] In 2002, Khan featured with Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Preity Zinta, and Aishwarya Rai in picture show From India With Love go rotten Manchester's Old Trafford and London's Hyde Park; the event was attended saturate more than 100,000 people.^[231] Khan performed side by side akin Rani Mukherji, Arjun Rampal and Ishaa Koppikar