The Ambitious Khan Called Shah Rukh Khan

By: Salman Akhter

Om Shanti Om continues to create records one after another, the man behind this ambitious project is SRK and Indian Cinema History will not be completed without discussing the contributions of Shah Rukh Khan, The Ambitious Khan, he himself described his suceess story is not less than a successful Bollywood Blockbuster Movie.

Started with TV series like ‘Fauji’ , ‘Circus’, ‘idiot’ and jumped over to celluloid world with Hema Malini directed ‘Dil Aashna Hai’.

He recognized as a film star after moving from Television, he achieved this by Raju Ban Gaya Gentlemen, Deewana, Chamatkar and Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa. He made a good friend like Juhi Chawla and Aziz Mirza during his initial phase.

He broke the mould of conventional hero after failures of ‘Maya Memsaab’ and ‘King Uncle’ by playing the dreaded negative roles which all other leading stars including Aamir Khan, were skeptical of accepting at that time, he did this with ‘Bazigar’ ‘Darr’ and ‘Anjaam’.

He accepted some of the movies in his earlier career due to financial securities, ‘Zamana Deewana’, ‘Trimurti’,’Ram Jaane’,’Oh Darling yeh hai India’, ‘Guddu’ and ‘English Babu Desi Mem’. Most of them went unnoticed at the box office apart from ‘Ram Jaane’ with average runner.

He convincingly played conventional hero and lover in his histrionics, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Pardes, Dil To Pagal Hai, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Yes Boss. DDLJ became the longest running movie in the Indian Cinema History breaking the record of ‘Sholay’. He further gained an admirer and friend in Karan Johar with KKHH.

He did have some of the debacles at the peak of his career, ‘Chaahat’, ‘Koyla’, ‘Duplicate’, ‘Dil Se’, ‘Badshah’,’Josh’,’One Two Ka Four’,’Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam’ and ‘Yeh Lamhe Judai ke’(Long stalled project),were not Box Office Successes, they only made him stronger and vigil while making decisions for any future projects.

After Yashraj’s ‘Mohabbatein’ he decided to venture in to production with best friends Juhi Chawla and Aziz Mirza, Dreamz Unlimited produced ‘Asoka’ a failure at the box office, then made ‘Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani’ again flop, ‘Chalte Chalte’ a Hit, then decided independently under his production name Red Chillies Entertainment with ‘Main Hoon Na’ a SuperHit, ‘Paheli’ a disaster.

Karan Johar’s next productions ‘Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham’ and ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ were already in the process of consolidating his position, enough to be called at that point a ‘King Khan’. ‘Veer Zara’, ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kahna’, ‘Devdas’,’Don’,’Chak De India’ eventually cemented his ‘Badshah of Bollywood’ tag for another decade.

‘Swades’ may not be successful at the booking window but this film is important for him as was ‘Mera Naam Joker’ for Showman Raj Kapoor.

The ’King hearted Khan’ did several guest appearances for friends and seniors just for the sake of emotional reasons, that includes, Boney Kapoor’Army’ for Sridevi, ’Dushman Duniya ka’ for Legendary Comedian Mahmood, ‘Gudgudi’ for Ace Director Basu Chatterjee, ‘Hay Ram’ for Kamal Hasan, ’Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega’ for Salman Khan, ‘Gaj Gamini’ for renowned painter MF Hussain,’Shakti -The Power’ for Boney Kapoor, ‘Sathiya’ for Shaad Ali, ‘Kaal’ for Karan Johar,’Kuch meetha ho jaye’ for Samar Khan, ’silsiley’for Khalid Mohamed, Alag..He is different..He is alone’ appeared in song sequence with Karan Johar, ’I See U’ for Arjun Rampal and ‘Heyy Baby’ for Sajid Khan among others.

His dream of setting up a production house was already fulfilled; he produced ‘Kaal’ with Karan Johar with moderate success and then came ‘Om Shanti Om’, which has completely transformed the scenario of ’King Khan’ to ‘One Man Industry’.

He wanted to bring Indian Cinema Success globally; he did that giving the highest ever money spinner to date with ‘Om Shanti Om’ simulteneauly in Domestic and International Market.

He already had established SFX Studio in Khar Mumbai. Now he could dream of something which he could never in his wildest dreams imagined of when he was first signed by Actor-Director Hema Malini for ‘Dil Ashna Hai’. Yes, now he is dreaming of setting up a state of art full fledged SRK Studios with almost every production/under-production, indoor studio stages facilities.

As Shah Rukh Khan Says,

‘My life is like a Bollywood movie success story’

‘Aur Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost’

For this Ambitious Khan, there are so many dreams yet to be fulfilled.

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