Shahrukh Khan

My mother was born and brought up in Hyderabad. She was a strong and beautiful woman. She resemble Waheeda Rehman. My father also was extremely handsome. I don't think I'm good-looking but they were a very good-looking couple. The met incidentally under strange circumstances. Injured in a car accident, my mother needed blood. My father who happened to be at the hospital at that time gave her blood. In this process of helping my mother to revive, they fell in love.

And though my father was about eleven years older than my mother, her family consented because he had sort of saved the family. In bringing up my sister Shehnaz and me, my parents never made any difference, though I think my sister was closed to my parents because she is six years older to me. I was born at a time when my parents weren't doing well financially. But I don't remember facing any hardship on that account. My father was a chief engineer. My mother was a social worker, a first class magistrate. She had studied in Oxford. She was among the first few Muslim women to have achieved so much. She has been an executive magistrate for the longest tenure recorded. She used to deal with juvenile delinquents. I was not a stubborn kid.

 

But if I wanted something badly enough I would go out and get it. I was exposed to the Ram Leela, I acted in it as one of the monkey. I wrote short stories.. shairis.. my father made me recite them. I remember once there was this aunt who wore horrendously pink lipstick and I composed a corny poem in praise of her lipstick. I think she was secretly pleased. My parents let me do my own thing, they only wanted me to do well in my studies...which I did. There were no restrictions. I could sleep at any time, go out anytime. If I bashed up some child's teeth, my father saw to it that I dealt with the child's father myself... I realized that parents weren't authority but they were friends. I would imitate Mumtaz, I would mimic people. I'm doing all this even today. And guess what? I'm being paid handsomely for it.

An outgoing kind of person, mom took a lot of initiative in everything. I remember when my father was ill, he had cancer for eight months, we lost everything we had.                       One injection used to cost about Rs 5000 and we had to organise about 23 injections in ten days. It was an expensive affair and our business went down. At that time my mother would work day and night. She would get the money some way. She really looked after my father.

After his death in '81 she revived his business and ran it proficiently. I inherited workaholism from her. She never said no to anything. Like when I went to college, I said I wanted a car. And the next day, there was a car outside. She never forced me to do anything. She never even forced me to take over the big business that we had finally when she died.

When I told her I wanted to act, join films she did not stop me. I wanted to do my masters in film making. I was very good. I had got admission in NSD. I didn't want to do it but she told me, "just get admission". So I gave my admission test and got in. I remember I used to be very bad in Hindi. I would get zero on ten. And she used to tell me, "If you get ten on ten, I'll take you for a film". And from that day to date I have topped in Hindi at all times I remember the first film she took me to see was Dev Anand's Joshilaa. Her favourite actors were Bishwajeet and Joy Mukherji.

I think I inherited my sense of humour from my father, who too had a lot of respect for women. I remember once I had gone and blown somebody's letterbox. And this south indian lady came down and complained to my father, "Your son troubles my daughter". He looked at her and said, "If she is as pretty as you are and if I was as young as my son, I'd probably do the same thing". She started laughing. He said it so gently and nicely. He was very respectful to women because he had an older sister and a mother whom he was very close to. He taught me how to be gentle with women.

When my father died, I didn't cry. I thought it was heroic. I was one of the pall-bearers, I thought I had become a little big man. But I felt cheated despite the fact that he had prepared me for his death... And my mother's death made me realize that nothing is permanent. I stopped hoping for anything. I cried a lot. Nothing shocks me anymore.

 Films  

Year	Film	B/O Status
2008	Rab Na
2006	Don	Super Hit
2006	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Hit
2005	Paheli	Flop
2004	Veer Zaara	Super Hit
2004	Swades	Average
2004	Main Hoon Na	Super Hit
2004	Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke	Flop
2003	Kal Ho Naa Ho	Super Hit
2003	Chalte Chalte	Super Hit
2002	Saathiya	Hit
2002	Devdas	Super Hit
2002	Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam	Hit
2002	Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham	Blockbuster
2001	Asoka	Average
2001	One 2 Ka 4	Flop
2000	Mohabbatein	Super Hit
2000	Hey Ram!	Flop
2000	Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani	Average
2000	Gaja Gamini	Flop
2000	Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega	Hit
2000	Josh	Hit
1999	Baadshah	Average
1998	Dil Se	Average
1998	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Blockbuster
1998	Duplicate	Average
1998	Achanak	Flop
1997	Dil To Pagal Ha	Super Hit
1997	Gudgudee	Flop
1997	Pardes	Super Hit
1997	Yes Boss	Super Hit
1997	Koyla	Average
1996	Dushman Duniya Ke	Flop
1996	Army	Average
1996	Chaahat	Average
1996	English Babu Desi Mem	Flop
1995	Zamaana Deewana	Flop
1995	Ram Jaane	Hit
1995	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge	Blockbuster
1995	Guddu	Flop
1995	O Darling Yeh Hai India	Flop
1995	Trimurti	Flop
1994	Karan Arjun	Super Hit
1994	Anjaam	Average
1994	Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa	Hit
1993	King Uncle	Average
1993	Baazigar	Super Hit
1993	Darr	Super Hit
1993	Pehla Nasha	Flop
1993	Maya Memsaab	Hit
1992	Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman	Hit
1992	Deewana	Super Hit
1992	Chamatkar	Hit
1992	Dil Ashna Hai	Average
1992	Idiot	Flop
1988	In Which Annie Gives It Those One	Flop

Shah Rukh Khan Facts

First Name: Shah Rukh Last Name: Khan Called: The King Khan, Baadshah of Bollywood Day of Birth: 2nd of November, 1965 Place of Birth: Talwar Nursing Home (Rajinder Nagar) New Delhi-India Shah Rukh was born with the umbilical cord entangled around his neck. A nurse said that it was by the blessings of Hanuman and that he would be a very lucky child. Mother: Fatima Begum (a social worker and a first class magistrate, who died of complications from diabetes in 1991) Father: Mir Taj Mohammed (a lawyer and a freedom fighter, who died of cancer in 1981) Siblings: one sister named Shehnaz fondly called Lala Rukh Zodiac Sign: scorpio Religion: Muslim Height: 5'9'' (around 1,75 m) Weight: around 75 kg Eyes: magic brown Hair Color: shiney black

Education: High School: St. Columbia High School In New Delhi. College: Graduated from Hansraj College, & then Masters in Mass Communication from Jamiya Miliya Islamiya, New Delhi Qualifications and Achievements: ·  Masters; A Brilliant Student ·  Sword of Honour to the most outstanding student ·  The Ravi Subramani award ·  The Sujit Memorial award ·  He captained all teams in football, hockey, and cricket ·  He was also good in dramatics ·  He was a king in Hindi, Electronics, Biology Occupation: actor, producer If not an Actor: In the arm force or a school teacher. Start his Career: in a TV serial called "Fauji" Film Debut: Deewana (2002) Hobbies & Interests: his family, his work, playing computer games Martial Status: Married, since October 25, 1991 with Gauri Chibber / Khan (born 8th of October 1970) Children: son Aryan (born on the 13th of November, 1997) daughter Suhana (born on 22nd of May 2000) Personal Quotes (December 2001, about Hrithik Roshan): I wish I looked as good as he does. And I wish I danced as well as he does! Yes, I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life? I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else I cannot repay my fans for what they have done for me, they have given me so much love and that love has taken me to the number 1 position where I am today, the only thing I can do for my fans is to never stop working, and to do films till the very end, it is the only way I can express my love for them. To me, Devdas is the end of love stories. I've portrayed an obsessed lover, a nice lover, an angry lover, a romantic lover. And now I've played Devdas. For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers. Personally speaking, I wouldn't see any of the romantic films I've acted in. I'm the luckiest man in the world and I don't want to hide from the faces I'm acting for. So I don't surround myself with guards, I've never given an interview in which I've said I feel bad that I can't go shopping or I can't go to Chowpatty and eat bhelpuri without being mobbed. I'm not the kind of guy who goes out wearing dark glasses (I don't think I'm a big enough star to hide behind them, honest). I go to see movies in the cinema theatres, I go to restaurants with my family and friends even though I know people are going to disturb me there. God has become a generic term like `mind blowing.' It is embarrassing. I would have said that to Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar. I used to tell them I want to stand in the same space as you. I've told Kamal Haasan, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go. (August 2004): Awards that ignore me are losers. (August 2004): I'm try-sexual. I try anything that's sexual. (August 2004): I have no competition. Every year the names I'm pitted against keep changing. You can't cream the competition, you have to kill it. I keep hearing that our films are escapist and unreal but I find our films the most real in the world. We don't have people going up in a rocket and single-handedly blowing up a meteor. We don't have a president on Air Force One saving the world or things coming out of people's stomachs. Our fantasies and escapism are real. It's just people singing and dancing in the street. If England had won the World Cup you would have seen people singing and dancing like that. I don't like wearing dark glasses. I'm happy with the fact that people know me. I want people to scream and shout at me, I want people to trouble me when I'm having lunch, I like six bodyguards around me. I love being a star. I find it very strange when people who are famous say they don't want to be photographed. I don't want to be photographed first thing in the morning, I don't want people peeping into my bedroom, but besides that, it's a wonderful life. "I haven't given up smoking. I'm very clear about it, it's a personal choice. I want to cut down on it. It shouldn't be made into an issue to say, damn good or damn bad. Whether I give it up or not shouldn't be an issue." (Movie Mag, May 2006) "I was supposed to have done Rang De Basanti (2006), the guy on the motorbike. I didn't have the dates. They were shooting in Delhi and the dates were clashing with Paheli." (Movie Mag, May 2006) "It's not like Steven Spielberg is waiting with a script for me. I don't think I'll ever be offered a great international film in my lifetime, so I'd rather be a king here. Moreover, Indian cinema is the greatest in the world. But of course, after spending three months in LA, London, and New York I found that our cinema is a little exaggerated. To make a mark in the West we have to reach their level without losing our identity, culture or songs. I don't want to star in a Hollywood film, but want to make a film that crosses over universally." (Movie Mag, May 2006) On trying to get Paheli (2005) an Oscar nomination: "There's a misreport here about our lobbying at the Oscars. The understanding that we have of the Oscars is very different from how it really is. Because Indian film, foreign films are not known, you're supposed to hire a PR company which we did. It's not as if you just go there, show your films, lobby and talk to them. You're not allowed to lobby as in you're not allowed to meet the Academy members, talk to them or even make a call to them. You just keep advertising in the 'For Consideration For Oscars' category. We took out full page ads in papers like Variety and Hollywood Reporter. The only good thing we did was that we advertised very frequently, it was promoted on the same scale as the biggest of films. We did it because we could afford it." (Movie Mag, May 2006) "I felt Asoka (2001) should have been chosen for the Oscars. We had worked towards that. We had these international distributors for it. We were the first to actually release an Indian film internationally in traditionally non-Indian theaters. We spent a lot of money and lost a lot of money too. We were the first to put up boardings in London, in tube stations. We did speak to everyone who was anyone here, wondering if Asoka could go to the Oscars. But the one that got chosen was Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) which was even better. So we had no complaints. After that I didn't make any film for the foreign market." (Movie Mag, May 2006) You must respect your seniors, bu never get intimidated by them. Winning should be a habit, not an option. The four Hs are important when you play to win --- honesty, humor, hard work and a bit of haraamipan. I don't look at the figures that my movies make. The only figures I look at are girl's figures. (When asked to comment on what he felt about the figures his movies gross.) Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works. If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay. I don't kiss on screen. Period. There are only two Khans. Ghenghis Khan and Shahrukh Khan Sex is not required to sell my film. My name is enough. You never win the silver, you only lose the gold. I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the air hostess asks me two questions, and I don't understand her accent - I will go hungry for the entire flight. The dream I chased, took me on a journey. A journey more rewarding then the goals, the achievements. When I look back it's like facing a million mirrors. Each reflection opens a window. A window to the world I've just discovered. The world I want to share with all of you. If I am a role model, I must be the worst one in the world. I've never had a girl make a pass at me. Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love. The collar-bone is my favorite part of the human body. If asking me whether sleeping with X or Y gives the media pleasure, then so be it. It's a small price to pay. Where Are They Now (September 2004) He is doing a world wide concert with Preity Zinta, Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Arjun Rampal, and Priyanka Chopra. (June 2009) Shooting for My Name is Khan in San Fransisco.