Shahrukh Khan is a highly celebrated actor cum producer of the Indian film industry in the present times. He has acted in various blockbuster movies like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayange, Dil to Pagal Hai, Khabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Chak De India et al. These have made Shahrukh hugely popular not only in India, but also across several other countries. So much so that he is famously called King Khan in the Hindi filmdom. He is the most influential actor among all his contemporaries in present day Bollywood.

Read on to delve deeper into the biography of the great King Khan, who was born to parents of Pathan ethnicity. Even though his family is Muslim, Shah Rukh was raised by Hindus for most of his life and as such, he nurtures a deep respect for both these religions. His father Taj Mohammed Khan was a freedom activist, while his mother Lateef Fatima was the adopted daughter of Major General Shah Nawaz Khan of the Janjua Rajput clan.