Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Tamil: அவுல் பகீர் ஜைனுலாப்தீன் அப்துல் கலாம்), born October 15, 1931, Tamil Nadu, India, usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, was the eleventh President of India, serving from 2002 to 2007, he was elected during the rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party, led ruling coalition, under prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. During his term as The President, he was popularly known as the People’s President.

Before his term as India’s president, he worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology. In India he is highly respected as a scientist and as an engineer.

Kalam played a pivotal organisational, technical and political role in India’s Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974. He is a professor at Anna University (Chennai) and adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India.

With the death of R. Venkataraman on January 27, 2009, Kalam became the only surviving former President of India.

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is none other than A.R.Rahman (ஏ.ஆர்.ரகுமான்) or Allah Rakha Rahman was born actually A. S. Dileep Kumar on the 6th of January in the year 1966, in Madras (now Chennai), to a musically affluent Tamil Mudaliar family. The second of four children he had three sisters Kanchana, Bala (now Talat) and Israth, Kanchana being elder and the other two younger. His father R.K. Sekhar was a composer, arranger and conductor in Malayalam movies and had worked under the likes of Salil Chowdhary and Devarajan. His mother was Kasthuri (now Kareema Begum). Dileep’s baptism in music happened early in life. Dileep’s earliest memories of the studio are with his father. On one of those visits, a music director Sudarshanam Master found the four year old playing a tune on the harmonium. He covered the keys with a cloth. It made no difference. Dileep replayed the tune effortlessly. This impressed the music director who suggested that he be trained in music. Dileep started learning the piano at the tender age of four. He recieved his early training in music from Dhanraj Master.
But he wanted to grow up to be an electronics or computer engineer. He says today, in reminiscence “I was not crazy after music. I was more interested in technology”. He was first drawn to music strongly when his father bought a synthesiser, one of the very first in film circles then, from Singapore. Till then he now says, “As a child, music seemed to be a means of earning bread and butter. I had no special fascination for it… it was associated purely with work. Yet I couldn’t take my eyes away from the synthesiser, it was like a forbidden toy.” This instrument was an object of much curiosity to the young Dileep and caught his fancy. Dileep used to spend hours experimenting with the novel instrument. This instrument was to shape the future of this child. It was perhaps divinely ordained that the synthesiser would become Dileep’s favourite instrument since it was the ideal combination of music and technology.

Rahman’s early years were one of struggle and hardships. At the age of 11, his father passed away following a mysterious illness with rumours abounding that he was the victim of black magic practised by his rivals. Unfortunately R. K. Shekhar passed away the very same day his first film as composer was released. It was at this time that Rahman’s belief in God first took a beating. Much of his time was filled with hospital visits, pain and anxieties. It is an issue that Rahman outrightly refuses to discuss even today. After his father’s death the pressure of supporting his family fell on the young Dileep. At first the family subsisted by lending out his father’s musical instruments.

It was his mother Kareema Begum who encouraged him to follow in his father’s footsteps and fully supported him in his vocation. But all this had an adverse effect on his formal education. Infrequent attendance and an unaccommodative management forced him to shift schools from the prestigious Padma Seshadri Bal Bhavan to the Madras Christian College and finally he dropped out of school altogether when he was doing his 11th grade.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (born Aishwarya Rai, and sometimes known simply as Ash or Aish, Tulu: ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯಾ ರೈ; 1 November 1973) is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994.

Often cited by the media as the most beautiful woman in the world, Rai made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam’s Tamil film Iruvar (1997) and had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans (1998). She came to the attention of Bollywood in the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Her performance in the film won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. In 2002 she appeared in Bhansali’s next project, Devdas (2002), for which she won her second Best Actress Award at the Filmfare. After a low phase in her career during 2003-2005, she appeared in the blockbuster Dhoom 2 (2006), which turned out to be her biggest Bollywood commercial success. She later appeared in films like Guru (2007) and Jodhaa Akbar (2008), which were commercially successful and got her critical acclaim. Rai has thus established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in the Indian film industry.

During her career, Rai has acted in over forty movies in Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali including the international productions Bride & Prejudice (2003), The Mistress of Spices (2005), The Last Legion (2007) and The Pink Panther 2 (2009) in English.

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Is none other than Saravanan “Surya” Sivakumar (Tamil: சரவணன் “சூர்யா” சிவகுமார்) (born July 23, 1975) is an award- winning Tamil film actor. Son of actor Sivakumar, his majore hits are Nandha, Kaakha Kaakha, Ghajini, Perazhagan, Pithamagan, Vaaranam Aayiram and Ayan. As of 2009, he has won three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards. He became a film distributor after opening Studio Green, which distributed several of his earlier films. He married actress Jyothika Saravanan in 2006, after being engaged for several years. In 2008, he began Agaram Foundations, which funds for preventing early childhood drop-outs.

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Yes at the age of 16, he proved others that he is worth thousand trillion dollars and now his name is known for records and his career span may be higher than some of his team mates age, his climbed up many stones that are thrown to him and now he is the topmost cricketer that the world has seen and he is none other than – Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, (Marathi: सचिन रमेश तेंडुलकर) (born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai). In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, next to Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards. In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against. Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman’s Eleven. His nick names are “Little Master” or “Master Blaster”, “Tendlya”, “The Master”, “The Little Champion”.

His career statistics are as below:

Tendulkar is the highest run scorer in both Test matches and ODIs, and also the batsman with the most centuries in either form of the game. The first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined, he now has more than eighty international centuries.

On October 17, 2008, when he surpassed Brian Lara’s record for the most runs scored in Test Cricket, he also became the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in that form of the game, having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket. He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history. In the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, Tendulkar surpassed Australia’s Allan Border to become the player to cross the 50-run mark the most number of times in Test cricket history, and also the second ever player to score 10 Test centuries against Australia, after only Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years back. Tendulkar has been honored with the Padma Vibhushan award, India’s second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India’s highest sporting honor.

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is Mao Inoue, (井上 真央 Inoue Mao?, born January 9, 1987 in Yokohama) is a Japanese actress. She was a popular U-15 idol from 1999; she was well known for her role as Imai Akane in the drama Kids War. Since the age of five she had parts in several dramas, but it wasn’t until the debut of Kids War in 1999 that Japanese audiences took notice of Inoue.

In 2005, she was cast as the star of Hana Yori Dango on TBS. Inoue played Makino Tsukushi in the live-action adaptation of the manga and anime, a lower middle-class girl who is trying to survive unnoticed in an elite high school full of playboys and rich snobs. A sequel to the 2005 drama, Hana Yori Dango 2, was aired in the winter 2007 season.

At 19, Inoue was enrolled in Meiji University, studying theater and literature, with her second major is Chinese. In 2006 she co-starred in the movie Check It Out, Yo! with Ichihara Hayato, Hiraoka Yuta, and Emoto Tasuku. The film was in theaters April 22, 2006. Inoue also co-starred in the summer 2007 drama First Kiss with “Check It Out, Yo!” co-star Hiraoka.

After the success of the two Hana Yori Dango dramas, a film was announced in August 2007, just months after the end of the 2007 sequel. It will be Inoue’s first starring role in a movie, which is to be called Hana Yori Dango Final. Hana Yori Dango Final was a successful movie, opening in Beijing on June 28, 2008 in China to packed crowds and is expected to gross 10 billion yen.

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 is Jun Matsumoto (松本 潤 Matsumoto Jun?, born August 30, 1983), often called MatsuJun, is a Japanese idol, singer, actor, television personality and radio host. He is best known for being the youngest member of the popular boy band Arashi. Since the group’s debut in 1999, they have had 23 number one singles, 6 number one studio albums, 1 number one greatest hits compilation album and has sold over 10 million records in Japan alone to date. Matsumoto is also an award-winning actor and is primarily known for his roles in the Hana Yori Dango series, the first season of Gokusen, Bambino! and Smile.

Early life:

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Matsumoto is the youngest child of his parents. He has an older sister whose support of KinKi Kids influenced his decision to join Johnny’s Entertainment in 1996. Thinking it might bode good luck, he sent his application to the agency on his elementary school graduation day and received a phone call weeks later from the president himself, Johnny Kitagawa, inviting him to attend a rehearsal instead of being auditioned. Due to this, Matsumoto is frequently referred to as an elite within the agency.

Matsumoto began his career in the entertainment industry as a back-up dancer for other groups like many other Juniors in the agency before he was drafted into a five-member group named Arashi in 1999 at the age of 16. He graduated from Horikoshi Gakuen, a renowned high school known for its many performing arts alumnae, at the age of 18 with other contemporaries Kyoko Fukada and Ai Kato whom he counts as his high school senior.

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is William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be “The Prelude”, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem “to Coleridge”. Wordsworth was England’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

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Kamal Haasan (Tamil: கமல்ஹாசன்) (born November 7, 1954 in Paramakudi, Madras State, India) is an Indian film actor, script writer, and filmmaker, considered one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. Haasan is known for winning several Indian film awards, including National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards, and has the distinction of being the actor with the most number of films submitted by India in contest for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In addition to acting and directing, he is a screenwriter, lyricist, playback singer and choreographer. His film production company, Rajkamal International, has produced several of his films.

After several projects as a child artiste, Kamal Haasan’s breakthrough into lead acting came with his role in the 1975 drama Apoorva Raagangal, in which he played a rebellious youth in love with an older woman. He secured his first Indian National Film Award for his portrayal of a guileless school teacher who tends a child-like amnesiac in 1982’s Moondram Pirai. He was particularly noted for his performance in Mani Ratnam’s Godfatheresque Nayagan (1987), which was ranked by Time magazine as one of the best films of all time. Since then he has gone on to appear in other notable films such as his own productions, Hey Ram and Virumaandi, as well as the magnum opus Dasavathaaram, in which he appeared in ten distinct roles.

Early career: 1960s – early 1970s

Kamal Haasan made his film debut as a 6-year-old child artist, in the film Kalathur Kannamma, which was released on August 12, 1959, directed by A. Bhimsingh. He was cast along with the veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan in the film, which won him the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. He acted as a child actor in five other Tamil films in the subsequent few years co-starring with Sivaji Ganesan and M. G. Ramachandran.

Following a nine year hiatus from films, to concentrate on his education as well as learning karate and Bharathanatyam, Haasan returned with a series of low budget films in 1972, in all of which he played supporting roles. These films included roles in Arangetram and Sollathaan Ninaikkiren, both co-starring Sivakumar. His final supporting role before establishing himself as a lead actor was in Naan Avanillai.

Late 1970s – 1980s

Kamal Haasan first received a regional Filmfare Award for acting for his role in the Malayalam film Kanyakumari (1974). In the next four years, he won six regional Best Actor Filmfare Awards, including four consecutive Best Tamil Actor Awards. He acted in director K. Balachander’s Apoorva Raagangal, an exploration of age-gap relationships. The late 1970s was a period that saw Kamal Haasan’s frequent collaboration with K. Balachander, who also cast him in many of his socially-themed films such as Avargal (1977). The film won Haasan his first Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award. In 1976, Haasan appeared in the drama Moondru Mudichu with Rajinikanth and Sridevi, another K. Balachander film, Manmadha Leelai, and Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu, which won him his second consecutive Best Actor Award. 16 Vayathinile won him his third consecutive award, where he appeared as an mentally ill villager, once again alongside Rajinikanth and Sridevi. The fourth consecutive award came with Sigappu Rojakal in which he appeared as an anti-hero who is a psychopathic sexual killer. In the late seventies, Haasan appeared in other films such as the comedy, Ninaithale Inikkum and the horror film, Neeya.

Haasan’s pairing with the actress Sridevi continued with Guru and Varumayin Niram Sigappu in 1980. Kamal Haasan also made guest–cameo appearances, such as in the Rajnikanth film Thillu Mullu; Rajinikanth had previously appeared in some of Kamal Haasan’s previous films. Haasan’s 100th career film appearance was in 1981’s Raja Paarvai, which also marked his debut in film production. Despite this film’s relatively poor reception at the cinemas, his portrayal of a blind session violinist earned him a Filmfare Award. His next acting role, in Ek Duuje Ke Liye, became his first Hindi-language film. It was the remake of his previous Telugu-language film, Maro Charithra by K. Balachandar. Following a year of starring in commercially-oriented films, Haasan won his first of three National Awards for Best Actor with his portrayal of a school teacher who looks after a mentally retarded girl in Balu Mahendra’s Moondram Pirai, alter reprising the role in the Hindi version, Sadma. In 1983, Haasan appeared in Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey playing a double role.

Kamal Haasan in Mani Ratnam’s, Nayagan, which fetched him his second National Film Award for Best Actor

Till 1985, Haasan began to appear in more Hindi language films, including Saagar, for which he was awarded both the Filmfare Best Actor Award and the Best Supporting Actor Award, making him the first actor to win both awards for a single film. Saagar portrayed him alongisde Rishi Kapoor both of whom were pinning for a woman, but Haasan ultimately loses out. Haasan also appeared in Geraftaar. He featured in Tamil cinema’s first sequel Japanil Kalyanaraman, which followed up his previous, Kalyanaraman as well as acting in Uruvangal Maralam co-starring Sivaji Ganesan and Rajinikanth.

In the mid-1980s, Haasan appeared in two Telugu language films, Sagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam with director, Kasinadhuni Viswanath. The latter film was India’s representative for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. Whilst, the former film portrayed Haasan as a drunkard classical dancer, Swathi Muthyam portrays him as an autistic person attempting to change society. Following Punnagai Mannan, in which he portrays dual roles including a satire of Charlie Chaplin and Vetri Vizha as an amnesiac, Haasan appeared in Mani Rathnam’s 1987 film Nayagan. Nayagan portrays the life of an underworld don in Bombay. The story revolves around the life of a real-life underworld don called Varadarajan Mudaliar, whilst sympathetically depicting the struggle of South Indians living in Mumbai. Haasan received a Indian National Award for his performance and Nayagan was nominated by India as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1987 as well as being included in the Time top 100 movies list. In 1988, Haasan appeared in his only silent film to date; appearing in the black comedy, Pushpak.[ In 1989, Haasan played a triple role in Apoorva Sagodharargal. The commercial film portrayed him in a role as a dwarf. He then attempted dual roles in Indrudu Chandrudu and its Tamil remake, winning the regional Best Actor Award for his performance.

Kamal Haasan in his yet-to-be-completed Marudhanayagam

Michael Madhana Kamarajan in 1991 saw Haasan go one step further, acting in four different roles as quadruplets, the film started an ongoing collabaration for comedy films between Haasan and Crazy Mohan, a dialogue writer. Haasan won successive best actor awards for his portrayal of the protagonist in Guna and in Thevar Magan, where he played the son of actor, Sivaji Ganesan. After films such as Singaravelan, Maharasan and Kalaignan; Haasan began to appear in comedies such as Sathi Leelavathi, based on the English film She-Devil, as well as renewing his collobaration with Kasinadhuni Viswanath in his last Telugu language film till date, Subha Sankalpam. In 1996, Haasan starred in the police story, Kuruthipunal. His success in Kuruthipunal, was followed by his third National Film Award for Best Actor in Indian. Playing dual roles of a freedom fighter and his untrustful son, the film also won Haasan regional awards and plaudits for his portrayal.

Haasan appeared as a woman in Avvai Shanmughi inspired by the Hollywood production, Mrs. Doubtfire. In 1997, Haasan began his first directorial venture, the biopic of Mohammed Yusuf Khan, Marudhanayagam which failed to complete its schedules with only half an hour and a trailer being recorded during its shoot. Marudhanayagam had been speculated to be the biggest and most expensive film in Indian cinema with a number of high profile actors technicians signing up for roles. Moreover, the film was launched in a much publicized ceremony by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom during her visit to India in 1997. Due to budget constraints, the film failed to materialize into feature length but Haasan has sinced stated his interest in building up funds for the project since. Haasan soon made his debut as director with a remake of Avvai Shanmughi in Hindi titled Chachi 420.

2000s: Hey Ram and onwards

Kamal Haasan pictured with Manisha Koirala in Aalavandhan

Following a two-year hiatus in Indian cinema, Haasan opted against reviving his magnum opus, Marudhanayagam, and filmed his second directorial venture, Hey Ram, a period drama told in flashback with a semi-fictional plot centering around India’s Partition and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Haasan also took on roles as the writer, the lyricist and the choreographer as well as producing the film under his home banner. The film, also featured Shahrukh Khan and was India’s submission for the Academy Awards that year. His following film was Aalavandhan, where he portrayed two distinct roles, for one of which he had his head tonsured and gained ten kilograms. Despite much publicity prior to release, the film failed commercially, wih Haasan opting to repay distributors who had suffered losses with the film.

Following a series of successful comedies in Thenali, Panchathantiram and Pammal K. Sambandam and a couple of guest appearances, Haasan directed his third feature film in Virumaandi, a film about the death penalty. Haasan also appeared in Anbe Sivam alongside Madhavan. Priyadarshan, who started the film, departed allowing commercial director Sundar C to complete the film. Anbe Sivam told the story of Nallasivam, enacted by Haasan as an idealist, social activist and communist. Kamal Haasan’s performance was highly lauded by critics with The Hindu stating that Haasan “has once again done Tamil cinema proud”.

Haasan then appeared in the remake film Vasool Raja alongside Sneha. In 2006, Haasan’s long delayed project, Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu emerged as a blockbuster. Gautham Menon’s Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu was Haasan’s first cop film since Kuruthipunal. In 2008, Haasan appeared in K. S. Ravikumar’s Dasavathaaram portraying ten distinct roles in the venture which to-date remians the most expensive Indian film ever made. Pairing opposite Asin Thottumkal, the film became the second highest grossing film ever in Tamil cinema and won Haasan critical praise for his enactment. He had also undertook the opportunity of being the story and screenwriter for the project. Following the completion of Dasavathaaram, Haasan opted to direct his fourth directorial venture, with a film tentatively titled Marmayogi, which after a year of pre-production became stalled. He then opted to produce and star in a venture, Unnaipol Oruvan, co-starring him with Mohanlal. The film, which had Shruti Haasan appear as the music director, became a successful venture for Haasan at the box-office.

Personal life

Family

Kamal Haasan was born on November 7, 1954 to a criminal lawyer named D. Srinivasan and his devout wife Rajalakshmi, both a part of the Tamil Iyengar caste, in the village of Paramakudi in the Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu. Haasan has referred to his parents in recent films, with references being made in Unnaipol Oruvan as well as in the song, Kallai Mattum from Dasavathaaram. Kamal Haasan was the youngest of three brothers, the others being Chaaru Haasan and Chandra Haasan. Chaaru Haasan, like Kamal Haasan, is a National Film Award-winning actor, who appeared in the noted Kannada film, Tabarana Kathe among others, but he has semi-retired from films since of recent times. Kamal’s niece (Chaaru Haasan’s daughter), Suhasini is also a National Film Award Winner and is married to noted director and fellow Award winner, Mani Ratnam, who collaborated with Kamal Haasan in 1987’s Nayagan. Chandra Haasan has appeared as the producer for several of Kamal Haasan’s films as well as being an executive of Kamal Haasan’s home production company, Rajkamal International. His brother’s daughter Anu Haasan has appeared in several films in supporting roles, most notably in Suhasini’s Indira.

Relationships

Despite his much praised and applauded film career, his personal life had some setbacks which have been exploited by the media. In Haasan’s early career, he co-starred in several Tamil and Malayalam films with noted actress Srividya. The pair were reported to have been a part of a notorious affair in the 1970s, with their relationship being explored in the 2008-released Malayalam film, Thirakkatha by Renjith, with Anoop Menon portraying Haasan and Priyamani playing Srividya. Srividya, who died in 2006, was visited by Haasan at her bedside during her final days. In 1978, at the age of twenty four, Haasan met and married danseuse Vani Ganapathy, who was elder to him. Vani put on the mantle of costume designer for her Haasan’s movies and was publicized for walking along with Haasan into the Filmfare Awards South ceremony of 1980, immediately after their wedding. However, the pair split after ten years together, after finding out that Haasan was dating fellow actress, Sarika, with Haasan confirming in a recent interview that he and Vani have never been in touch since.

Subsequently, Haasan and Sarika married in 1988, with the pair having two children: Shruti Haasan (born 1986) and Akshara Haasan (born 1991). The former is a singer as well as an upcoming actress, whilst the latter is pursuing higher studies in Bangalore. Sarika, retired from acting roles soon after her marriage with Haasan, replacing his ex-wife, Vani Ganapathy as Haasan’s costume designer, with acclaimed work in Hey Ram. However, the pair filed for divorced in 2002, with Sarika estranging herself from her children as well as Haasan by the end of the procedure in 2004. Haasan’s intimate relationship with co-star Simran Bagga, who is twenty two years younger, became the reason for the split. A brief relationship with Simran, who appeared opposite Haasan in two consecutive ventures with Pammal K. Sambandam and Panchathantiram, followed after she ended her relationship with choreographer Raju Sundaram. However, the pair’s companionship was short lived, with Simran going onto marry a childhood friend in 2004. Currently Haasan lives with former actress, Gouthami Tadimalla, who co-starred with Haasan in several films in the late 80’s to the early 90’s. Haasan helped her during her traumatic experience suffering from breast cancer and the pair have been in a domestic relationship since 2005. Along with Shruti and Akshara, Gouthami’s daughter, Subbalakshmi, from an annulled marriage also lives with them.

Awards and honours

List of awards and nominations received by Kamal Haasan

National Film Awards

•          1960 — National Film Award for Best Child Artist for Kalathur Kannamma

•          1982 — Best Actor Award for Moondram Pirai

•          1987 — Best Actor Award for Nayagan

•          1996 — Best Actor Award for Indian

Filmfare Awards

Hindi

•          1986 — Best Actor Award for Saagar

•          1998 — Best Story Award for Virasat

Kannada

•          1988 — Best Actor Award for Pushpak

Malayalam

•          1974 — Best Actor Award for Kanyakumari

•          1978 — Best Actor Award for Yaetta

Tamil

•          1975 — Best Actor Award for Apoorva Raagangal

•          1976 — Best Actor Award for Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu

•          1977 — Best Actor Award for 16 Vayadhinile

•          1978 — Best Actor Award for Sigappu Rojakal

•          1981 — Best Actor Award for Raja Paarvai

•          1991 — Best Actor Award for Guna

•          1992 — Best Actor Award for Thevar Magan

•          1995 — Best Actor Award for Kuruthipunal

•          1996 — Best Actor Award for Indian

•          2000 — Best Actor Award for Hey Ram

Telugu

•          1981 — Best Actor Award for Aakali Rajyam

•          1983 — Best Actor Award for Sagara Sangamam

•          1989 — Best Actor Award for Indrudu Chandrudu

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

•          1991 — Special Award for Guna

•          1992 — Best Actor Award for Devar Magan

•          1996 — Best Actor Award for Indian

•          2006 — Best Actor Award for Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu

•          2008 — Best Actor Award for Dasavathaaram

Nandi Awards

•          1983 — Best Actor Award for Saagara Sangamam

•          1986 — Best Actor Award for Swathi Muthyam

•          1989 — Best Actor Award for Indrudu Chandrudu

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival

•          2004 — Best Film Award for Virumaandi

Vijay Awards

•          2007 – Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award for Excellence in Indian Cinema

•          2008 – Best Villain Award for Dasavatharam

•          2008 – Best Comedian Award for Dasavatharam

•          2008 – Best Story-Screenplay Writer Award for Dasavatharam

•          2008 – Most Popular Hero Of The Year Award for Dasavatharam

Special honours

•          1990 — Padma Shri

•          2004 All the awards presented to him were for his artistic talent. He got the first Abraham Kovoor National Award for his Humanist Activities and Secular Life in 2004.

•          2005 — Honorary Doctorate

•          2009 — FICCI Living Legend

•          Kalaimamani

Filmography

As actor, director, writer & producer.

2000s

1990s

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is Shahrukh Khan (Hindi: शाहरुख़ ख़ान, Urdu: شاہ رُخ خان; born November 2, 1965), sometimes credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian actor and a prominent Bollywood figure, as well as a film producer and television host.

Khan began his career appearing in several television serials in the late 1980s. He made his film debut in Deewana (1992). Since then, he has been part of numerous commercially successful films and has earned critical acclaim for many of his performances. During his years in the Indian film industry, Khan has won thirteen Filmfare Awards, seven of which are in the Best Actor category. Khan’s films such as Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Chak De India (2007), Om Shanti Om (2007) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) remain some of Bollywood’s biggest hits, while films like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Veer-Zaara (2004) and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) have been top-grossing Indian productions in the overseas markets, making him one of the most successful actors of India. Since 2000, Khan branched out into film production and television presenting as well. He is the founder/owner of two production companies, Dreamz Unlimited and Red Chillies Entertainment. In 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world.

Khan was born in 1965 to Muslim parents of Pathan descent in New Delhi, India. His father, Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar, British India. According to Khan, his paternal grandfather was originally from Afghanistan. His mother, Lateef Fatima, was the adopted daughter of Major General Shah Nawaz Khan of the Janjua Rajput clan, who served as a General in the Indian National Army of Subash Chandra Bose. Khan’s father came to New Delhi from Qissa Khawani Bazaar in Peshawar before the partition of India, while his mother’s family came from Rawalpindi, British India. Khan has an elder sister named Shehnaz.

Growing up in Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood, Khan attended St. Columba’s School where he was accomplished in sports, drama, and academics. He won the Sword of Honour, an annual award given to the student who best represents the spirit of the school. Khan later attended the Hansraj College (1985-1988) and earned his Bachelors degree in Economics (honors). Though he pursued a Masters Degree in Mass Communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, he later opted out to make his career in Bollywood.

After the death of his parents, Khan moved to Mumbai in 1991. In that same year, before any of his films were released, he married Gauri Chibber (who is a Hindu) in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991. They have two children, son Aryan (b. 1997) and daughter Suhana (b. 2000). According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Allah, he also values his wife’s religion. At home, his children follow both religions, with the Qur’an being situated next to the Hindu gods.

In 2005, Nasreen Munni Kabir produced a two-part documentary on Khan, titled The Inner and Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan. Featuring his 2004 Temptations concert tour, the film contrasted Khan’s inner world of family and daily life with the outer world of his work. The book Still Reading Khan, which details his family life, was released in 2006. Another book by Anupama Chopra, “King of Bollywood: Shahrukh Khan and the seductive world of Indian cinema”, was released in 2007. This book described the world of Bollywood through Khan’s life.

Khan has been awarded a number of honours. He was honoured with the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India in 2005. In April 2007, a life-size wax statue of Khan was installed at the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, London. Another statue was installed at the Musée Grévin in Paris, the same year. During the same year, he was accorded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of the Arts and Literature) award by the French government for his “exceptional career”.

In October 2008, Khan was conferred the Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka which carries the honorific Datuk (in similar fashion to “Sir” in British knighthood), by the Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob, the head of state of Malacca in Malaysia. Khan was honoured for “promoting tourism in Malacca” by filming One Two Ka Four there in 2001. Some were critical of this decision. He was also honoured with an honorary doctorate in arts and culture from Britain’s University of Bedfordshire in 2009.

Film career

Khan studied acting under celebrated Theatre Director Barry John at Delhi’s Theatre Action Group (TAG). In 2007, John commented thus on his former pupil that, “The credit for the phenomenally successful development and management of Shahrukh’s career goes to the superstar himself.” Khan made his acting debut in 1988 when he appeared in the television series, Fauji, playing the role of Commando Abhimanyu Rai. He went on to appear in several other television serials, most notably in the 1989 serial, Aziz Mirza’s Circus, which depicted the life of circus performers. The same year, Khan also had a minor role in the made-for-television English-language film, In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones, which was based on life at Delhi University and was written by Arundhati Roy.

Upon moving from New Delhi to Mumbai in 1991, Khan made his Bollywood movie debut in Deewana (1992). The movie became a box office hit, and launched his career in Bollywood. His performance won him a Filmfare Best Male Debut Award. He went on to star in Maya Memsaab, which generated some controversy because of his appearance in an “explicit” sex scene in the movie.

In 1993, Khan won acclaim for his performances in villainous roles as an obsessive lover and a murderer, respectively, in the box office hits, Darr and Baazigar. Darr marked his first collaboration with renowned film-maker Yash Chopra and his banner Yash Raj Films, the largest production company in Bollywood. Baazigar, which saw Khan portraying an ambiguous avenger who murders his girlfriend, shocked its Indian audience with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula. His performance won him his first Filmfare Best Actor Award. In that same year, Khan played the role of a young musician in Kundan Shah’s Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, a performance that earned him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance. Khan maintains that this is his all-time favourite among the movies he has acted in. In 1994, Khan once again played an obsessive lover/psycho’s role in Anjaam, co-starring alongside Madhuri Dixit. Though the movie was not a box office success, Khan’s performance earned him the Filmfare Best Villain Award.

In 1995, Khan starred in Aditya Chopra’s directorial debut Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, a major critical and commercial success, for which he won his second Filmfare Best Actor Award. In 2007, the film entered its twelfth year in Mumbai theaters. By then the movie had grossed over 12 billion rupees, making it as one of India’s biggest movie blockbusters. Earlier in the same year he found success in Rakesh Roshan’s Karan Arjun which became the second biggest hit of the year.

1996 was a disappointing year for Khan as all his movies released that year failed to do well at the box office. This was, however, followed by a comeback in 1997. He saw success with Subhash Ghai’s social drama Pardes — one of the biggest hits of the year—and Aziz Mirza’s comedy Yes Boss, a moderately successful feature. His second project with Yash Chopra as a director, Dil to Pagal Hai became that year’s second highest-grossing movie, and he won his third Filmfare Best Actor Award for his role as a stage director who falls in love with one of his new actresses.

In 1998, Khan starred in Karan Johar’s directoial debut, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, which was the biggest hit of the year. His performance won him his fourth Best Actor award at the Filmfare. He won critical praise for his performance in Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se. The movie did not do well at the Indian box office, though it was a commercial success overseas. Khan’s only release in 1999, Baadshah, was an average grosser.

Khan’s success continued with Aditya Chopra’s 2000 film, Mohabbatein, co-starring Amitabh Bachchan. It did well at the box office, and Khan’s performance as a college teacher won him his second Critics Award for Best Performance. He also starred in Mansoor Khan’s action film Josh. The film starred Khan as the leader of a Christian gang in Goa and Aishwarya Rai as his twin sister, and was also a box office success. In that same year, Khan set up his own production house, Dreamz Unlimited with Juhi Chawla (see below). Both Khan and Chawla starred in the first movie of their production house, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani. His work with Karan Johar continued as he collaborated on the family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham which was the second biggest hit of the year. He also received favorable reviews for his performance as Emperor Asoka in the historical epic, Asoka, a partly fictionalised account of the life of Ashoka the Great (304 BC–232 BC).

In 2002, Khan received acclaim for playing the title role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s award-winning period romance, Devdas. It was the third Hindi movie adaptation of Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s well-known novel of the same name, and surfaced as one of the biggest hits of that year.[40] Khan also starred opposite Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit in the family-drama Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam, which did well at the box office. In 2003, Khan starred in the moderately successful romantic drama, Chalte Chalte. That same year, he starred in the tearjerker, Kal Ho Naa Ho, written by Karan Johar and directed by Nikhil Advani. Khan’s performance in this movie as a man with a fatal heart disease was appreciated. The movie proved to be one of the year’s biggest hits in India and Bollywood’s biggest hit in the overseas markets.

2004 was a particularly good year for Khan, both commercially and critically. He starred in Farah Khan’s directorial debut, the comedy Main Hoon Na. The movie did well at the box office. He then played the role of an Indian officer, Veer Pratap Singh in Yash Chopra’s love saga Veer-Zaara, which was the biggest hit of 2004 in both India and overseas. The film relates the love story of Veer and Pakistani woman Zaara Haayat Khan, played by Preity Zinta. Khan’s performance in the film won him awards at several award ceremonies. In that same year, he received critical acclaim for his performance in Ashutosh Gowariker’s drama Swades. He was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award for all three of his releases in 2004, winning it for Swades.

In 2006, Khan collaborated with Karan Johar for the fourth time with the melodrama movie Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. It did well in India and much more so in the overseas market, becoming the biggest Bollywood hit in the overseas market of all-time. His second release that year saw him playing the title role in the action film Don, a remake of the 1978 hit Don. The movie was a success.

Khan’s success continued with a few more highly popular films. One of his most successful works was the multiple award-winning 2007 film, Chak De India, about the Indian women’s national hockey team. Earning over Rs 639 million, Chak De India became the third highest grossing movie of 2007 in India and won yet another Filmfare Best Actor Award for Khan. The film was a major critical success. In the same year Khan also starred in Farah Khan’s 2007 film, Om Shanti Om. The film emerged as the year’s highest grossing film in India and the overseas market, and became India’s highest grossing production ever up to that point. It earned him another nomination for Best Actor at the Filmfare ceremony. Khan’s more recent films include the 2008 release, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi which was a huge box office success, and Billu.

As of 2009, Khan is filming My Name Is Khan, due for a February 2010 release. While on one shoot in Los Angeles, along with his wife Gauri and director Karan Johar, he took a break from filming to attend the 66th Golden Globe Awards, held in Los Angeles, California, on 11 January 2009. Khan introduced Slumdog Millionaire along with a star from the film, Freida Pinto.

Producer

Khan turned producer when he set up a production company called Dreamz Unlimited with Juhi Chawla and director Aziz Mirza in 1999. The first two of the films he produced and starred in: Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000) and Asoka (2001) were box office failures. However, his third film as a producer and star, Chalte Chalte (2003), proved a box office hit.

In 2004, Khan set up another production company, Red Chillies Entertainment, and produced and starred in Main Hoon Na, another hit. The following year, he produced and starred in the fantasy film Paheli, which did poorly. It was, however, India’s official entry to the Academy Awards for consideration for Best Foreign Language Film, but it did not pass the final selection. Also in 2005, Khan co-produced the supernatural horror film Kaal with Karan Johar, and performed an item number for the film with Malaika Arora Khan. Kaal was moderately successful at the box office. His company has gone on to produce Om Shanti Om (2007), in which he starred, and Billu (2009), in which he played a supporting role as a Bollywood superstar.

Apart from film production, the company also has a visual effects studio known as Red Chillies VFX. It has also ventured into television content production, with shows like, ‘The First Ladies’, ‘Ghar Ki Baat Hai’, and ‘Knights and Angels’. Television advertisements are also produced by the company. In 2008, Red Chillies Entertainment became the owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders in the BCCI-backed IPL cricket competition.

Television host

In 2007, Khan replaced Amitabh Bachchan as the host of the third series of the popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The previous had hosted the show for five years from 2000–05. On 22 January 2007, Kaun Banega Crorepati aired with Khan as the new host and later ended on 19 April 2007.

On 25 April 2008, Khan began hosting the game show Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?, the Indian version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, whose last episode was telecasted on 27 July 2008, with Lalu Prasad Yadav as the special guest.

Awards and nominations

An actor from India, Khan has won fourteen Filmfare Awards, nine Star Screen Awards, four IIFA Awards, eight Zee Cine Awards, three Bollywood Movie Awards, two Global Indian Film Awards and many other awards. He also has won all the Best Actor awards at Star’s Sabsey Favourite Kaun Awards, and was nominated for Best Actor at the Asian Film Awards.

He was honoured Rajiv Gandhi Award for “Excellence in the Field of Entertainment” in 2002, and a Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award from the Government of India in 2005. In 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world. He was honoured with an honorary doctorate in arts and culture from Britain’s University of Bedfordshire in 2009.

Filmfare Awards

Awards Won

•          1993 – Filmfare Best Debut Award for Deewana

•          1994 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Baazigar

•          1994 – Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance for Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa

•          1995 – Filmfare Best Villain Award for Anjaam

•          1996 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

•          1998 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Dil To Pagal Hai

•          1999 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

•          2001 – Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance for Mohabbatein

•          2003 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Devdas

•          2005 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Swades

•          2008 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Chak De India

Special Awards

•          2002 – Filmfare Special Award Swiss Consulate Trophy

•          2004 – Filmfare Power Award

•          2005 – Filmfare Power Award

Awards Nominated

•          1993 – Filmfare Best Comedian Award for Chamatkar

•          1994 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa

•          1994 – Filmfare Best Villain Award for Darr

•          1998 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Yes Boss

•          1999 – Filmfare Best Villain Award for Duplicate

•          2000 – Filmfare Best Comedian Award for Baadshah

•          2001 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Mohabbatein

•          2002 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

•          2004 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Kal Ho Naa Ho

•          2005 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Main Hoon Na

•          2005 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Veer Zaara

•          2007 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

•          2007 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Don – The Chase Begins Again

•          2008 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Om Shanti Om

•          2009 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Star Screen Awards

Winner

•          1996: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

•          2002: Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 (along with Kajol) for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

•          2003: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Devdas

•          2003: Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 (along with Aishwarya Rai) for Devdas

•          2005: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Veer-Zaara

•          2005: Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 (along with Preity Zinta) for Veer-Zaara

•          2007: Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 (along with Rani Mukerji) for Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

•          2008: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Chak De India

•          2008: Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 (along with Deepika Padukone) for Om Shanti Om

Nominated

•          1998: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Dil To Pagal Hai

•          1999: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

•          2001: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Mohabbatein

•          2002: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

•          2004: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Chalte Chalte

•          2006: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Paheli

•          2007: Star Screen Award Best Villain for Don – The Chase Begins Again

•          2008: Star Screen Award Best Actor for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

International Indian Film Academy Awards

Winner

•          2003: IIFA Best Actor Award for Devdas

•          2005: IIFA Best Actor Award for Veer-Zaara

•          2008: IIFA Best Actor Award for Chak De India

•          2009: IIFA Star of the Decade – Male

Nominated

•          2001: IIFA Best Actor Award for Mohabbatein

•          2002: IIFA Best Actor Award for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

•          2006: IIFA Best Actor Award for Paheli

•          2007: IIFA Best Actor Award for Don – The Chase Begins Again

•          2009: IIFA Best Actor Award for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Zee Cine Awards

Winner

•          1998: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Dil To Pagal Hai

•          1999: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

•          2003: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Devdas

•          2004: Zee Cine Award Superstar of the Year- Male for Kal Ho Naa Ho

•          2005: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Veer-Zaara

•          2007: Fun Cinema Entertainer of the year for Don – The Chase Begins Again

•          2008 : Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Chak De! India

•          2008: Zee Cine Award Icon Award

Nominated

•          2005: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Main Hoon Na

•          2005: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Swades

•          2006: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Paheli

•          2007: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

•          2007: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Don – The Chase Begins Again

•          2008: Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Om Shanti Om

Bollywood Movie Awards

Winner

•          1999: Bollywood Movie Award – Most Sensational Actor for Dil Se

•          1999: Bollywood Movie Award – Best Actor for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

•          2003: Bollywood Movie Award – Best Actor for Devdas

•          2005: Bollywood Movie Award – Best Actor for Veer-Zaara

Global Indian Film Awards

Winner

•          2004: GIFA Best Actor Award for Veer-Zaara

•          2004: GIFA Most Searched Male Actor on Internet

Nominated

•          2006: GIFA Best Actor Award for Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards

Winner

•          2008: Apsara Best Actor Award for Chak De India

Nominated

•          2005: Apsara Best Actor Award for Swades

Asian Film Awards

Nominated

2007: Best Actor for Don – The Chase Begins Again

Other awards

•          2004 British Asian Guild Award for Best Actor of the Decade

•          2004 11th Lions Gold Award for Excellence in his Field

•          2007 V Shantaram Award for Best Actor for Chak De India

•          SRK awarded “My Amazing Actor” Award by Pogo channel

•          Ten Rupa Cinegoers Awards

•          Six Sansui Viewers Choice Movie Awards

•          Two AFJA Awards

•          One Aashirwad Award

•          One Disney Kids Channel Award

•          One MTV Immies Indian Music Excellence Awards

•          MTV Youth Icon of the Year for 2005

•          One Sports World Film Award

•          One Sahara One Sangeet Award – Best Actor Singer “Apun Bola” Josh – 2005

•          Star’s Sabsey Favourite Kaun Awards:

o          2004: Sabsey Favourite actor

o          2005: Sabsey Favourite actor

o          2006: Sabsey Favourite actor

o          2007: Sabsey Favourite actor

o          2008: Sabsey Favourite actor

•          2007: HT Café Film Awards Best Actor Award for Chak De India.

•          2007 CNBC-TV18’s Entertainment Business Leader Award

•          Sexiest Man in Asia (Jade Magazine, October 2001)

•          Sexiest Asian Man (Eastern Eye, October 2007)

•          2008 IDEA ITA Best Anchor/Show Host

•          2008 Annual Central European Bollywood Award for Chak De India (Best Actor)

•          The Nokia 14th Annual Star Screen Awards: the Best Actor Award for his performance in chak de india

National honours

•          2002 – Rajiv Gandhi Award for Excellence in the Field of Entertainment

•          2005 – Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India

•          2009 – Among the 10 recipients of the IIFA-FICCI Frames Awards for the “Most Powerful Entertainer of the Decade”

International recognitions

•          In 2004 Time magazine in their third annual special on Asia’s heroes selected him along with 19 other Asian’s as the 20 Asian Heroes under the age of 40.

•          2004 British Asian Guild Award for Best Actor of the Decade

•          In 2005 he appeared on the cover of the Asian edition of the National Geographic magazine dated February 2005. This was a rare honour extended by National Geographic since unlike many other magazines celebrities are not their natural choice for a cover image

•          Khan has been accorded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of the Arts and Literature) award by the French government for his “exceptional career” in 2007.

•          He was declared the Sexiest Man in Asia by Jade Magazine, October 2001

•          In 2003, a rare species of orchid, was named after him, Ascocenda Shahrukh Khan, in Singapore.

•          He was declared Sexiest Asian Man by Eastern Eye, October 2007

•          In October 2008, he had been conferred the Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka which carries the honorific Datuk by the Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob, the head of state of Malacca in Malaysia, for “promoting tourism in Malacca” by filming One Two Ka Four there in 2001.

•          His life-like wax statue was installed in London’s Madame Tussauds Wax museum in 2007.

•          Khan’s life-size wax statue was displayed in Grévin museum in Paris in 2007 along with only one other Indian who got this honour, Gandhi.

•          In 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world where he is currently ranked 41.

•          In 2009, the 66th Golden Globe Awards functionists entitled him to present the motion picture Slumdog Millionaire. This is the first time for an Indian actor they have invited.

•          In 2009, Britain’s University of Bedfordshire rewarded him with an honorary doctorate in arts and culture.

•          in 2009, India today declare SRK 5th most powerful person in India

•          in 2009, he was conferred with a “Black Belt” honor from the South Korean government in taekwondo

Actor

Producer

•          Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000)

•          Asoka (2001)

•          Chalte Chalte (2003)

•          Main Hoon Na (2004)

•          Kaal (2005)

•          Paheli (2005)

•          Om Shanti Om (2007)

•          Billu (2009)

Playback singer

•          Main to hoon Pagal – Baadshah (1999)

•          Apun Bola – Josh (2000)

•          Khaike Paan Banaraswala – Don – The Chase Begins Again (2006)

•          Ek Hockey Doongi Rakhke – Chak De India (2007)

•          Sattar Minute – Chak De India (2007)

Stunts director

•          Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)

•          Main Hoon Na (2004)

•          Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)

•          Chak De India (2007)

•          Om Shanti Om (2007)

Television appearances

•          Dil Dariya (1988)

•          Fauji (1988) … Abhimanyu Rai

•          Doosra Keval (1989)

•          Circus (1989)

•          In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989)

•          Idiot (1991) … Pawan Raghujan

•          Rendezvous with Simi Garewal…..Guest

•          Koffee with Karan (2004-2007) … Guest (3 episodes)

•          Kaun Banega Crorepati (2007) … Host

•          Jjhoom India (2007) … Guest

•          Nach Baliye (2008) …. Guest

•          Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? (2008)  …. Host

•          Tere Mere Beach Mein (2009)  … Guest

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