Early Life and Family: Red Chillies Entertainment Indian Premier League Kolkata Knight Riders

As of 2015, Khan is co-chairman of the motion picture production company Red Chillies
Entertainment and its subsidiaries, and is the co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket
team Kolkata Knight Riders. He is a frequent television presenter and stage show performer. The
media often label him as "Brand SRK" because of his many endorsement and entrepreneurship
ventures. Khan's philanthropic endeavours have provided health care and disaster relief, and he was
honoured with UNESCO's Pyramide con Marni award in 2011 for his support of children's education
and World Economic Forum's Crystal Award in 2018 for his leadership in championing women's and
children's rights in India. He regularly features in listings of the most influential people in Indian
culture, and in 2008, Newsweek named him one of their fifty most powerful people in the world.[7]
Contents
 1Early life and family

 2Acting career
o 2.11988–1992: Television and film debut
o 2.21993–1994: Anti-hero
o 2.31995–1998: Romantic hero
o 2.41999–2003: Career challenges
o 2.52004–2009: Resurgence
o 2.62010–present: My Name Is Khan and beyond
 3Other work
o 3.1Film production and television hosting
o 3.2Stage performances
o 3.3Ownership of IPL cricket team
 4In the media
 5Awards
 6See also
 7Footnotes
 8References
 9Bibliography
 10External links
Early life and family

Khan with his wife Gauri Khan at a party in 2012
Khan was born on 2 November 1965 in a Muslim family in New Delhi.[2] He spent the first five years
of his life in Mangalore, where his maternal grandfather, Ifthikar Ahmed, served as the chief engineer
of the port in the 1960s.[8][9][b] According to Khan, his paternal grandfather, Jan Muhammad, an
ethnic Pashtun, was from Afghanistan.[11][12] Khan's father, Meer Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian
independence activist in Peshawar, British India (present-day Pakistan). As of 2010, Khan's paternal
family was still living in Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshawar's Qissa Khawani Bazaar.[11] Meer was a
follower of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan,[13] and affiliated with the All Indian National Congress.[11] He
moved to New Delhi in 1948 after the partition of India.[14] Khan's mother, Lateef Fatima, was the
daughter of a senior government engineer.[15][c] His parents were married in 1959.[18] Khan described
himself on Twitter as "half Hyderabadi (mother), half Pathan (father), [and]
some Kashmiri (grandmother)".[19] His paternal cousins in Peshawar claim that the family is
of Hindkowan origin from Kashmir, not Pashtun, and also contradict the claim that his grandfather
was from Afghanistan.[11][20]
Khan grew up in the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood of Delhi.[21] His father had several business
ventures including a restaurant, and the family lived a middle-class life in rented apartments.[22] Khan
attended St. Columba's School in central Delhi where he excelled in his studies and in sports such
as hockey and football,[23] and received the school's highest award, the Sword of Honour.[22] 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.[24] One of his childhood friends and
acting partners was Amrita Singh, who became a Bollywood actress.[25] 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),[26] where he studied acting under the mentorship of theatre
director Barry John.[27] After Hansraj, he began studying for a master's degree in Mass
Communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, but left to pursue his acting career.[28] He also attended
the National School of Drama in Delhi during his early career in Bollywood.[29] His father died of
cancer in 1981,[d] and his mother died in 1991 from complications of diabetes.[32] After the death of
their parents, his older sister, Shahnaz Lalarukh, born in 1960,[33] fell into a depressed state and
Khan took on the responsibility of caring for her.[30][34]Shahnaz continues to live with her brother and
his family in their Mumbai mansion.[35]
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.[1] He married Gauri Chibber,
a Punjabi Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991, after a six-year
courtship.[36][37] They have a son Aryan (born 1997) and a daughter Suhana (born 2000).[28] In 2013,
they became parents of a third child named AbRam,[38] who was born through a surrogate
mother.[39] According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Islam, he also values his wife's religion.
His children follow both religions; at home the Qur'an is situated next to the Hindu deities.[40]
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