SHAH RUKH KHAN
Now the king of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan will be known as Dr.Shah Rukh Khan, because a leading British University named “Bedfordshire” will be given an honorary Doctorate in Arts and Culture to this Bollwood actor on Friday. He has been chosen by NGO Routes to Roots, is a non-profit charitable organization and attempt to bring people and cultures together across the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries in general and India and Pakistan in particular. Actress Juhi Chawla and filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt are supporters of this organization. Shah Rukh Khan had done immense work for the backward and helpless people and has always come forward for charities in case of natural disasters. That is why he had chosen for this doctorate. So he will find himself in the elite list of Indian heroes and heroines including Amitabh Bacchan, Shilpa Shetty, Akshay Kumar, Shabana Azmi, Dilip Kumar etc who had been conferred with the honorary doctorate in the past. Sharukh Khan is very famous as Bollywood actor, producer and television host. He is the first foreign actor who received the Malaysian title of Datuk equivalent to a British Knighthood. In addition, he had won the national award and lots of film fare awards for his best performance in films.
BIOGRAPHY
Sharukh Khan was born on 2nd November, 1965 in New Delhi, India as the son of an Indian freedom fighter Taj Mohammed Khan and Lateef Fatima. He gained his school education from “St. Columba’s School” where he was famous in sports, drama, and academics, and he won the ‘Sword of Honor’, an annual award given to the student who best represents the spirit of the school. Furthermore, he gained his graduation in Economics (honors) from “Hansraj College” .Though he continued a Masters Degree in ‘Mass Communications’ at “Jamia Millia Islamia“, but he dropped out to make his career in Bollywood. After the death of his parents, he moved to Mumbai in 1991, and he married Hindu girl Gauri Chibber and they have two children Aryan Khan and Suhana. He is the only actor that had no family backgrounds related to film industry. It is his effort and hard work that made him number one in the film industry. He appeared into the television serials first at early 90s named “Circus” and “Fauji”. He started his film career with the box office hit film “Deewana” in 1991, and he won “Filmfare Best Male Debut Award” for the performance of this film. Since then, he had been part of numerous commercially successful films and had earned to critical applaud for many of his performances. In 1993, he won to applaud for his performances in villainous roles in the films like “Darr” and “Baazigar”. His notable films are “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge”, “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, “Karan Arjun”, “Pardes”, “Chak De India” “Om Shanti Om”, “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi”, “Billu”, “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham”, “Kal Ho Naa Ho “, “Veer-Zaara”, “Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna”. His latest film is “My Name Is Khan” which will be released on November 2009. He is also a producer of the films and created a production company called “Dreamz Unlimited” with Juhi Chawla and director Aziz Mirza in 1999. The films like “Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani”and “Asoka” in which he starred and produced were box office failures. However, the film titled “Chalte Chalte” became a box office hit. In 2004, he created another production company titled “Red Chillies Entertainment”and the film “Main Hoon Na” which was produced in this company was another hit film. This company also produced the films like “Om Shanti Om” and “Billu”. This company also had a visual effects studio known as “Red Chillies VFX” which has also ventured into television shows like, ‘The First Ladies’, ‘Ghar Ki Baat Hai’, and ‘Knights and Angels’. In addition, this company became the owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL cricket team. Shahrukh also appeared in the popular game showa “Kaun Banega Crorepati”, the Indian version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ and “Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?”, the Indian version of ‘Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?’. Shahrukh Khan is really a king of Bollywood with his performance.
