SHAHRUKH KHAN - All Time Favourite

Shahrukh Khan is a muslim by religion as his name suggests, he was born in a Muslim family in the year 1965 on the second of November. Shahrukh was raised all his life by a Hindu family and thus he respects and follows both religions equally. 

Shahrukh Khan’s father was Taj Mohammed Khan who belonged to a famous tribe of the warriors which was known as the tribe of kuthay. His mother’s name was Lateef Fatima and she was the adopted child and the only daughter of her father who was Major General Shah Nawaz Khan belonged to the Janjua Rajput clan and also served as a General in the Indian National Army in the control of Subash Chandra Bose.

 Even before the partition of the subcontinent Shahrukh Khan’s father had migrated from a small town in the city of Peshawar which is now situated in Pakistan, to the famous city of Delhi now in India. His mother’s family had also migrated from a city now situated in Pakistan, which is Rawalpindi. Shahrukh khan only has a sister as his sibling named Shehnaz, whose nick name is lovingly kept as Lalarukh.

 

As a child Shahrukh Khan attended St Columa’s School which is situated in the heart of Delhi and he is known for his great achievements in the sports, drama, and equally well in the academics. Shahrukh Khan was an all rounder, a well balanced student in every aspect of his academics and extra-curricular activities. He won the annual award of the Sword of Honour which was always presented to a student who showed the most enthusiastic efforts for success in every field.

 Shahrukh Khan believed in completing his education and went on to study at the Hansraj College from the year 1985 to 1988 and received an Honors degree in the filed of Economics. He then went on to achieve his Masters Degree from the Jamia Millia Islamia College where he earned MD in Mass Communication.

Shahrukh Khan was always known to have loved his family a lot as a child and even after he was got well-reputed after the start of his professional career. His Parents died just before his marriage in the year 1991. He was having a long term affair with Gauri Khan and finally married to the bride of her choice after migrating to Mumbai from the city of Delhi in the year 1991. At present Shahrukh Khan has two children, which includes his elder son Aryan born in the year 1997 and his younger daughter Suhana who was born in the year 2000.

Shahrukh Khan decided to take his chance into acting very early in his life, and he first appeared in a television serial called Fauji, which was in the year 1988 even before his marriage. He played the role of Commando Abhimanya Rai.

He then further got offers for television serials like Circus in the year 1989 in which the life of the performers in a circus was portrayed. He then got an offer of a very small role written by Arundhati Roy on the life of the people at Delhi University the name of the television film was In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones.

Shahrukh Khan moved to Mumbai from new Delhi after the death of his parents and that is when he got the offer of his first Bollywood silver screen role, in the movie Dewwana in the year 1991. He earned the award for the Best Male Debut for the film and the movie itself was a huge box office success. This marked the beginning of his professional career. He was then seen in a film called Maya Memsaab which was not very well received due to the controversial issues because Shahrukh had appeared in a sex scene in the film.