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Shah Rukh Khan
Actor, producer · Born 2 November 1965
Shah Rukh Khan is an Indian actor and producer, often called King Khan. His romantic leads include Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Swades. His next theatrical action film, King, directed by Siddharth Anand, is dated 24 December 2026, with Suhana Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan and Anil Kapoor in published cast lists.
Born 2 November 1965.
He became the romantic lead of the 1990s with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and the father-and-son melodramas of the early 2000s with films such as Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. Swades is the film his admirers use when they want to argue he was never only that. In 2026 he leads King, Siddharth Anand’s action film, dated 24 December, with Deepika Padukone in the published cast.
Shah Rukh Khan was born on 2 November 1965 in New Delhi. He came to films from television, not from a film family. Fauji (1988) and Circus made him a TV face. Deewana (1992) was the film debut. Baazigar and Darr, both 1993, made him a star by playing men the audience was not supposed to trust. By Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge in 1995 the part had flipped: Raj, who will not take the bride without her father’s consent, became the romantic lead Hindi cinema copied for a decade.
The 2000s split him in two. There is the Karan Johar and Yash Raj lover: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, My Name Is Khan. There is the other Shah Rukh: Swades, Chak De! India, Don, and later Fan and Raees, where the charm is the problem rather than the solution. He produces through Red Chillies Entertainment, the company he runs with Gauri Khan.
After Zero (2018) the theatrical run went quiet. Pathaan (25 January 2023), Jawan (7 September 2023) and Dunki (2023, directed by Rajkumar Hirani) put him back in cinemas in a single year. The next dated theatrical lead on this desk is King, directed by Siddharth Anand, set for 24 December 2026, with Suhana Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan and Anil Kapoor in the published cast. He also hosted Kaun Banega Crorepati for one season, season 3, in 2007. Amitabh Bachchan has hosted the rest.
Awards and honours
- Padma Shri, 2005.
- Filmfare Award for Best Actor for Baazigar, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Devdas, Swades, Chak De! India and My Name Is Khan. That is the Best Actor list in his published Filmfare record, eight wins.
- France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres: Chevalier, and later Officier. Both decorations are part of the public record of his overseas honours.
- He has not been given a National Film Award for Best Actor. This page does not invent one.
Films, dramas and shows
| Year | Title | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Fauji | Abhimanyu Rai | The television serial that made him known before films. |
| 1993 | Baazigar | Ajay / Vicky | The vengeful lead. A Filmfare Best Actor win. |
| 1993 | Darr | Rahul | Yash Chopra. The stalker, opposite Juhi Chawla and Sunny Deol. |
| 1995 | Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge | Raj | Aditya Chopra. Kajol as Simran. The film that set the 1990s romantic rule. |
| 1998 | Kuch Kuch Hota Hai | Rahul | Karan Johar’s first film. Kajol, Rani Mukerji, and Salman Khan as Aman. |
| 2001 | Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham | Rahul | The adopted son cut off by his father. Kajol, Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor Khan. |
| 2002 | Devdas | Devdas | Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Aishwarya Rai as Paro, Madhuri Dixit as Chandramukhi. |
| 2003 | Kal Ho Naa Ho | Aman | Nikhil Advani. Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan. A man who knows he is dying. |
| 2004 | Swades | Mohan Bhargava | Ashutosh Gowariker. A NASA scientist who stays longer than he planned. |
| 2007 | Chak De! India | Kabir Khan | Shimit Amin. The disgraced captain who coaches the women’s hockey team. |
| 2007 | Om Shanti Om | Om | Farah Khan. Deepika Padukone’s first Hindi lead. |
| 2010 | My Name Is Khan | Rizwan Khan | Karan Johar. Kajol as Mandira. Set in post-9/11 America. |
| 2017 | Raees | Raees | Rahul Dholakia. Mahira Khan opposite him. The Pakistan release became a political argument of its own. |
| 2023 | Pathaan | Pathaan | Siddharth Anand. Deepika Padukone and John Abraham. The spy-universe comeback. |
| 2023 | Jawan | Double lead | Atlee. Nayanthara and Vijay Sethupathi. Deepika Padukone in a special role. |
| 2023 | Dunki | Hardayal Singh Dhillon | Rajkumar Hirani. Taapsee Pannu. An illegal-migration story, not an action film. |
| 2026 | King | Lead | Siddharth Anand. Dated 24 December 2026. Suhana Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan and Anil Kapoor are in the published cast. |
Known for
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge · Swades · King
Now and next
Work on ShowBuzz
- King
Film · 2026. Shah Rukh Khan’s Christmas action film, directed by Siddharth Anand. The October 2026 cast lists also include Suhana Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan and Anil Kapoor. Dated 24 December 2026.
- Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Film · 1995. Raj and Simran meet on a European trip. Her father has already promised her to someone else. Aditya Chopra’s film, produced by Yash Raj, is the romantic template a generation of Hindi cinema copied, including the rule that the father has to say yes.
- Swades
Film · 2004. A NASA scientist comes home to find the woman who raised him, and stays long enough to see what the village actually needs. Ashutosh Gowariker directs. It was not the biggest earner of its year. It is the Shah Rukh Khan performance people now put beside DDLJ.
- Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Film · 2001. A rich Delhi family splits when the adopted son marries against his father’s wish. Karan Johar directs. It is melodrama at full volume, and it is the family film a huge diaspora audience still puts on.
- Pathaan
Film · 2023. A RAW agent pulled back into the field goes after a rogue former agent. Yash Raj produced it as part of the spy universe that also includes War and Tiger. It was the film that put Shah Rukh Khan back at the top of the box office after several years away.
- Jawan
Film · 2023. Atlee’s Hindi debut. Shah Rukh Khan plays a double lead in a prison-and-vigilante story aimed at public corruption. Nayanthara and Vijay Sethupathi are in the principal cast. Deepika Padukone appears in a special role. Red Chillies produced it.
- Chak De! India
Film · 2007. A disgraced men’s hockey captain is given the women’s national team, a squad the board does not expect to take seriously. Jaideep Sahni wrote it. Yash Raj produced it. It is the Shah Rukh Khan film people name when they want him as a coach rather than as a lover.
- Om Shanti Om
Film · 2007. A junior artist in 1970s Bombay loves a star, dies, and is reborn into the industry that killed the story. Farah Khan directs. It is Deepika Padukone’s first Hindi lead. The film is a comedy about the movies and, underneath that, a reincarnation revenge.
- Kal Ho Naa Ho
Film · 2003. A man who knows he is dying sorts out a neighbour’s family and her love life in New York. Nikhil Advani’s first film, produced by Karan Johar. Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan lead. The title song is still played at farewells.
- Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Film · 1998. Karan Johar’s first film. A college triangle becomes, eight years later, a father’s attempt to keep a promise to his wife. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol lead. Salman Khan plays Aman. It is one of the films that fixed the late-1990s Dharma look.
- Devdas
Film · 2002. Bhansali’s version of Sarat Chandra’s novel. Devdas, barred from marrying Paro, drinks himself toward the courtesan Chandramukhi and the house he cannot re-enter. Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit lead.
- My Name Is Khan
Film · 2010. Rizwan Khan, a Muslim man with Asperger’s, crosses America after 9/11 to tell the president that his name is Khan and he is not a terrorist. Karan Johar directs. Shibani Bathija wrote it. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol lead.