Aamir Khan born Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan 14
March 1965) is an Indian film actor, director, screenwriter, producer and
television presenter. Through his successful career in Hindi films, Khan has established
himself as one of the most popular and influential actors of Indian cinema. He is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations,
including four National Film Awards and
seven Film fare Awards, and was honored
by the Government of India with the Padma Shri in 2003 and the Padma Bhushan in 2010.
First
appeared on screen as a child actor in his uncle Nasir Hussain's film Yaadon
Ki Baaraat (1973). His
first feature film role came with the experimental
film Holi -1984, and he
began a full-time career in film with a leading role in the highly successful
tragic romance Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988). His performance in the film
and in the thriller Raakh (1989) earned him a Special Jury Award at the National Film Award ceremony.
He established himself as a leading actor of Hindi cinema in the 1990s by
appearing in several commercially successful films, including the romantic
drama Dil (1990), the
romance Raja Hindustani (1996),
for which he won his first Filmfare
Award for Best Actor, and the drama Sarfarosh (1999). He was also noted for playing
against type in the critically acclaimed Canadian
Indian film Earth (1998).
In
2001, Khan started a production
company, whose first release, Lagaan, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film and earned him a National Film Award for Best Popular
Film and two more Filmfare Awards
(Best Actor and Best Film). After
a four-year absence from the screen, Khan continued to portray leading roles,
most notably in the 2006 box-office hits Fanaa and Rang De Basanti. The following year,
he made his directorial debut with Taare Zameen Par, a major success
that garnered him the Filmfare Awards for Best Film and Best Director. Khan's greatest
commercial successes came with the thriller Ghajini (2008),
the dramedy 3
Idiots (2009), and the
adventure film Dhoom 3 (2013), all of which held records for
being the highest grossing
Bollywood film of all-time.
In
addition to acting, Khan is a humanitarian and has participated in and spoken
out for various social causes, some of which have sparked political
controversy. He has created, and featured as the host of the television talk
show Satyamev Jayate through
which he highlights sensitive social issues prevailing in India. Khan was
married to his first wife, Reena Dutta, for fifteen years following which he
married the film director Kiran
Rao. He has three children—two with Dutta, and one with Rao through a surrogate.
Aamir Khan
was born on 14 March 1965 in Mumbai to Tahir
Hussain, a film producer, and Zeenat Hussain. Several
of his relatives were members of the Hindi film industry, including his late
paternal uncle, the producer-director Nasir
Hussain. His great-grand uncle
was the Indian freedom fighter and philosopher Abul Kalam Azad Khan is the eldest of
four siblings; he has a brother, the actor Faisal
Khan, and two sisters, Farhat and Nikhat
Khan.His nephew, Imran Khan, is a
contemporary Hindi film actor
As a
child, Khan appeared on screen in two cameos. His first appearance was at the
age of eight in a highly popular song in the Nasir Hussain-directed musical
film Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973).The
following year, he portrayed the younger version of Mahendra Sandhu's character in his
father's production Madhosh (1974). Aamir Khan attended J.B. Petit
School for his pre-primary education, later switching to St. Anne's High School, Bandra till the eight grade, and completed
his ninth and tenth grade at the Bombay
Scottish School, Mahim.He played tennis in state level championships, saying
that he was "much more into sports than studies".He completed his
twelfth grade from Mumbai's Narsee Monjee College Aamir Khan described his
childhood as "tough" due to the financial problems faced by his
father whose film productions failed to earn profits. He said that "there
would be at least 30 calls a day from creditors calling for their money"
and he was always at a risk of being expelled from school for non-payment of
fees.
At the
age of sixteen, Khan was involved in the experimental process of making a
40-minute silent film entitled Paranoia that was directed by his school friend Aditya Bhattacharya. The film was
funded by the filmmaker Shriram
Lagoo, an acquaintance of Bhattacharya, who provided them with a few thousand
rupees Khan's parents opposed to
his joining films due to their own experience, wishing that he would instead
pursue a "steady" career of an engineer or doctor and thus the shooting schedule ofParanoia was a clandestine one In the film, he played the lead role
alongside actors Neena Gupta and Victor
Banerjee, while simultaneously assisting Bhattacharya. He said that the
experience of working on it encouraged him to pursue a full-time career in film.
Aamir Khan
subsequently joined a theatre group called Avantar, where he worked backstage
for a year and a half, following which he made his stage debut with a small
role in their Gujarati play, Kesar
Bina, at Prithvi Theatre.He
then acted in two Hindi plays and an English play named Clearing
House. After completing his high-school education Khan decided to
discontinue studying, despite the objection of his parents, choosing instead to
work as an assistant director to Nasir Hussain on two Hindi films—Manzil Manzil(1984) and Zabardast (1985)

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