Bollywood badshah Shah Rukh Khan who had said no to writing blogs earlier has recently joined Twitter where the superstar lets his fans know his viewpoint about the current news stories.
Recently SRK, widely praised for bringing the pathetic state of Indian hockey into limelight with his portrayal of a disgraced player who goes on to become a celebrated coach in the 2007 blockbuster Chak De India, supported the revolting hockey players in his latest tweet. “(I) feel awful for the Indian hockey team. To play for the country…national sport and have to ask for salary and we complain we don’t win gold (medals),” Khan, who himself was a hockey player before becoming an actor, said on his ‘Twitter’ page.
The boy-next-door went on to become one of the biggest Bollywood superstars. Today when people throng the theatres to daze at their favourite star, they still fondly remember the two-decade-old television series, ‘Fauji’, particularly Abhimanyu Rai, the role in which SRK made his television debut.
A Delhi-boy Shah Rukh was born in 1965 at Talwar Nursing Home, Rajinder Nagar. His father Taj Mohammed Khan migrated to Delhi from Peshawar before the partition.
Growing up in the bylanes surrounding house no. F-442 Rajinder Nagar, Shah Rukh attended St. Columba’s School and graduated with a degree in Economics from Hansraj College. Dropping out of the masters course in Mass Communication at Jamia Millia Islamia he moved to Mumbai to try his luck in the films.
On 25 October 1991, Shah Rukh married his long time girlfriend Gauri. Gauri’s parents initially opposed the marriage. Then in the style and charisma that the world would later see in ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’, SRK slowly but surely won everyone’s hearts over. Though for most of their wedded life Gauri has remained media shy, of late, she has been making dazzling public appearances with her husband.
Shah Rukh was active in dramatics during his school and college days and also trained under theatre director Barry John. The firm grounding in acting did the young hopeful in the big bad world of films and television much good. His role in ‘Fauji’ earned him instant popularity and even his subsequent television venture ‘Circus’ was a success.
SRK’s big break came in the 1992 film ‘Deewana’ where he starred opposite Divya Bharti. Shah Rukh won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for the film. The music of the film was a big hit and the film was also a commercial success.
