Shah Rukh Khan

Acting

Shah Rukh Khan

Born 1965-11-02 · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Shah Rukh Khan, widely known as SRK, "King Khan," and the "King of Bollywood," is an Indian actor, film producer, entrepreneur, television personality, philanthropist, and one of the most influential figures in world cinema. He is widely regarded as one of the most internationally recognized and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. Born in New Delhi, India, Khan studied at Hansraj College, University of Delhi, received theatre training under Barry John, and later pursued Mass Communication at Jamia Millia Islamia. During his college years, he actively participated in stage productions, laying the foundation for his acting career. He made his television acting debut with *Fauji* (1988), followed by *Circus* (1989). Following the deaths of his father in 1980 and his mother in 1991, Khan relocated to Mumbai to pursue acting professionally. Khan's first signed feature film was *Dil Aashna Hai* (1992), directed by Hema Malini. However, *Deewana* (1992) was released first and is officially recognized as his theatrical film debut. His performance earned the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut, launching one of the most successful careers in Indian cinema. Over the following three decades, he has appeared in more than 116 films, with notable performances in *Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge* (1995), *Kuch Kuch Hota Hai* (1998), *Chak De! India* (2007), *My Name Is Khan* (2010), and *Jawan* (2023). He has also produced more than 18 feature films. Khan has won 14 Filmfare Awards, including a record eight Best Actor awards. In 2005, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Shri. The Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2007) and the Legion of Honour (2014). In 2023, Guinness World Records recognized him as the Most In-Demand Actor in the World for 2022–2023. In 2025, he received the Silver Lotus Award for Best Actor at the 71st National Film Awards for *Jawan* (2023). Beyond acting, Khan co-founded Dreams Unlimited in 1999 with Juhi Chawla and Aziz Mirza. In 2002, he established Red Chillies Entertainment with Gauri Khan, one of India's leading film production and visual effects companies. He is also the co-owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise in the Indian Premier League. Khan has hosted the Filmfare Awards, IIFA Awards, Zee Cine Awards, Star Screen Awards, and several television programs, including *Kaun Banega Crorepati* (Season 3), *Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?*, *Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout*, *India Poochega – Sabse Shaana Kaun?*, *TED Talks India Nayi Soch*, and *TED Talks India Nayi Baat*. He later hosted the 24th IIFA Awards (2024) and the 70th Filmfare Awards (2025). Khan has represented international brands, including TAG Heuer in India since 2003. He is also recognized for his humanitarian work through the Meer Foundation, supporting healthcare, education, women's empowerment, disaster relief, and rehabilitation programs for acid attack survivors. With a global fan base spanning Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, Africa, and the worldwide Indian diaspora, Shah Rukh Khan remains one of the most influential and successful personalities in Indian cinema, leaving a lasting legacy as an actor, producer, entrepreneur, television personality, and philanthropist. TMDB mini biography by: Ashvin Borad

Acting credits

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge poster
8.5

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

1995

My Name Is Khan poster
8.0

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

My Name Is Khan

2010

Jawan poster
7.0

An emotional journey of a prison warden, driven by a personal vendetta while keeping up to a promise made years ago, recruits inmates to commit outrageous crimes that shed light on corruption and injustice, in an attempt to get even with his past, and that leads him to an unexpected reunion.

Jawan

2023

Saathiya poster
6.1

A couple elopes to get married and set up home hoping that just love will do the trick - but that's just the beginning of their story.

Saathiya

2002

Veer-Zaara poster
7.5

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

Veer-Zaara

2004

Tiger 3 poster
5.7

Spy couple Tiger and Zoya face a ruthless enemy with a personal vendetta.

Tiger 3

2023

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham poster
7.7

Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a young man goes on a mission to reunite his family.

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

2001

Om Shanti Om poster
7.1

In the early 70s, aspiring actor Om Prakash Makhija, and a famous starlet Shantipriya, are murdered. Thirty years later, his reincarnation Om Kapoor sets out to discover the mystery of their demise.

Om Shanti Om

2007

Pathaan poster
6.4

A soldier caught by enemies and presumed dead comes back to complete his mission, accompanied by old companions and foes.

Pathaan

2023

Chennai Express poster
6.5

Rahul embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a woman hailing from a unique family down South. As they find love through this journey in the exuberant lands of South India, an unanticipated drive awaits them.

Chennai Express

2013

Main Hoon Na poster
6.6

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

Main Hoon Na

2004

Dilwale poster
6.6

Raj is a Mafia member. One day he meet a girl (Meera) while chasing by his rival gang and falls in love with her. Later he finds out that this girl is the daughter of the leader of his rival gang. Yet their love story continues until he was shot by his girlfriend upon a deep misunderstanding. After that incident these two lovers lives separate until their siblings fallen in love. With this new love story their paths intertwines again.

Dilwale

2015

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi poster
7.1

A boring, reserved husband secretly becomes a lively, confident stranger to woo his own unaware wife only to make her fall head over heels for his dashing alter ego.

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

2008

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai poster
7.5

Per her mother's last wish, an 8 year old girl sets out to reunite her father with his college best friend who was in love with him.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

1998

Mohabbatein poster
7.1

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

Mohabbatein

2000

Laal Singh Chaddha poster
6.3

Events in India's history — from the Emergency and the famous Cricket World Cup win to the Punjab riots , unfold from the perspective of an innocent Sikh man Laal Singh Chaddha, a person with a low IQ but high optimism. Laal is able to achieve everything under the sun but his childhood love continues to elude him.

Laal Singh Chaddha

2022

Ra.One poster
5.7

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

Ra.One

2011

Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva poster
6.3

The story of Shiva – a young man on the brink of an epic love, with a girl named Isha. But their world is turned upside down when Shiva learns that he has a mysterious connection to the Brahmāstra... and a great power within him that he doesn’t understand just yet - the power of Fire.

Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva

2022

Hey Ram poster
7.0

Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.

Hey Ram

2000

Kal Ho Naa Ho poster
7.5

An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.

Kal Ho Naa Ho

2003

Zero poster
5.2

Short in stature but big on love, a bachelor meets two very different women who broaden his horizons and help him find purpose in life.

Zero

2018

Aśoka poster
6.4

A young Prince Asoka works to perfect his skills in battle and also deals with family conflict. During a struggle with one of his step-brothers, his mother urges Asoka to escape to stay alive. While away, Asoka meets Kaurwaki and falls in love, but must use his skills as a warrior to protect her. A dangerous and heartbreaking web of conspiracy follows, which leads Asoka to embrace a Buddhist path.

Aśoka

2001

Devdas poster
7.5

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

Devdas

2002

Dunki poster
6.3

Four friends from a sleepy little village in Punjab share a common dream: to go to England. Their problem is that they have neither the visa nor the ticket. A soldier alights from a train one day, and their lives change. He gives them a soldier's promise: He will take them to the land of their dreams. What follows is a hilarious and heartwarming tale of a perilous journey through the desert and the sea, but most crucially through the hinterlands of their mind.

Dunki

2023

Behind the camera

Kartavya poster
7.0

With his family's safety at stake and menacing threats closing in, a police officer must decide how far he'll go to uphold his duty.

Kartavya

2026

Om Shanti Om poster
7.1

In the early 70s, aspiring actor Om Prakash Makhija, and a famous starlet Shantipriya, are murdered. Thirty years later, his reincarnation Om Kapoor sets out to discover the mystery of their demise.

Om Shanti Om

2007

Main Hoon Na poster
6.6

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

Main Hoon Na

2004

Ra.One poster
5.7

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

Ra.One

2011

Aśoka poster
6.4

A young Prince Asoka works to perfect his skills in battle and also deals with family conflict. During a struggle with one of his step-brothers, his mother urges Asoka to escape to stay alive. While away, Asoka meets Kaurwaki and falls in love, but must use his skills as a warrior to protect her. A dangerous and heartbreaking web of conspiracy follows, which leads Asoka to embrace a Buddhist path.

Aśoka

2001

Dunki poster
6.3

Four friends from a sleepy little village in Punjab share a common dream: to go to England. Their problem is that they have neither the visa nor the ticket. A soldier alights from a train one day, and their lives change. He gives them a soldier's promise: He will take them to the land of their dreams. What follows is a hilarious and heartwarming tale of a perilous journey through the desert and the sea, but most crucially through the hinterlands of their mind.

Dunki

2023

Happy New Year poster
6.1

Six would-be thieves enter a prestigious dance competition as a cover for their larger goal of pulling off a major heist.

Happy New Year

2014

Don 2 poster
7.0

Having conquered the Asian underworld, crime boss Don sets in motion a plan that will give him dominion over Europe.

Don 2

2011

Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani poster
6.6

Two rival reporters team up to help prove the innocence of a man set to be hanged for the murder of a politician.

Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani

2000

Chalte Chalte poster
6.3

A man pursues a woman who is already engaged and eventually gets married to her. Differences between the two lead to a bitter separation that threatens to destroy their relationship forever.

Chalte Chalte

2003

Bhakshak poster
7.3

A struggling local journalist begins a dogged investigation into harrowing cases of abuse being covered up at a shelter for young girls.

Bhakshak

2024

Student Of The Year poster
5.8

Several alumni reminisce about their final year at St. Theresa's College and the events that shaped their lives.

Student Of The Year

2012

Badla poster
7.3

A dynamic young entrepreneur finds herself locked in a hotel room with the corpse of her dead lover. She hires a prestigious lawyer to defend her and they work together to figure out what actually happened.

Badla

2019

Paheli poster
6.1

Kishanlal marries the beautiful Lachchi, but the day after the wedding, he leaves on business for five years. When Kishanlal reappears only a few days later, Lachchi is delighted, but this new Kishanlal is in fact a spirit who has taken the form of Lachchi's husband, after having seen her by chance and fallen in love with her. Four years later, the real Kishanlal returns and the townsfolk must determine who is who.

Paheli

2005

Darlings poster
7.0

Badru hopes her volatile husband will reform if he stops drinking. But when his rage goes too far, she and her mom boldly, albeit clumsily, seek revenge.

Darlings

2022

Kaal poster
4.7

After a series of deaths in Orbit Wildlife Park are attributed to a man-eating tiger, wildlife reporter Krish Thapar decides to investigate the incidents for a magazine article. But something deadlier than tigers hunts in the forest.

Kaal

2005

Ittefaq poster
6.8

Police officer Dev investigates a double murder case that has only two witnesses - an acclaimed writer Vikram and a young homemaker Maya, who also happen to be the prime suspects in the case. He finds himself being torn between their own version's of what happened on the fateful night, and takes it upon himself to figure out the real story and capture the real murderer.

Ittefaq

2017

Love Hostel poster
5.5

Set against the pulsating backdrop of rustic North India, Love Hostel traces the volatile journey of star-crossed lovers, being hunted by a ruthless mercenary on the orders of the area's MLA, who also happens to be the girl's grandmother.

Love Hostel

2022

Bob Biswas poster
6.5

Bob Biswas, a hitman-for-hire, comes out of a prolonged coma and struggles to recall his identity but suffers a moral dilemma when the memories of his past resurface.

Bob Biswas

2021

Class of '83 poster
5.8

A hero policeman shunted to a punishment posting as the Dean of the police academy decides to punish the corrupt bureaucracy and its criminal allies in return by training five lethal assassin policemen.

Class of '83

2020

No artwork available
10.0

Poor Raja opens a fast foot restaurant right opposite a five star hotel run by its owner Singhania, earning his wrath. The wealthy hotel owner uses all his influence to remove Raja, but in vain. Things get worse for the wealthy man, when his daughter Kiran wants to marry the poor hotelier. The wealthy man refuses, leading to a confrontation and a condition - which Raja fulfills, he becomes rich virtually overnight, and proposes for the hand of Kiran. The wealthy hotelier reluctantly accepts him as his son-in-law, only to have Kiran elope with a man named Rahul.

Dulhe Raja

No artwork available
NR

Indian remake of A Hard Day (2014).

Untitled Hindi remake of A Hard Day