Aamir Khan Filmography And Profile
Aamir Khan
Film actor
Aamir Khan is an Indian film actor, director, 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. Wikipedia
Born: March 14, 1965 (age 50), Mumbai
Height: 1.68 m
Spouse: Kiran Rao (m. 2005), Reena Dutta (m. 1986–2002)
Children: Azad Rao Khan, Ira Khan, Junaid Khan
Aamir Khan is an Indian film actor, producer, director, playback singer, screenwriter, and television personality. Khan first appeared on screen at the age of eight in a cameo appearance for his uncle Nasir Hussain's film Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973) In 1983, he acted in and worked as an assistant director on Paranoia, a short film directed by Aditya Bhattacharya following which he assisted Hussain on two of his directorial ventures—Manzil Manzil (1984) and Zabardast (1985) As an adult, Khan's first acting project was a brief role in the 1984 experimental social drama Holi.
Khan's first leading role came opposite Juhi Chawla 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 36th National Film Awards ceremony He subsequently starred in several successful films in the early 1990s, including the romantic drama Dil (1990), the romantic comedy Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin (1991), the sports film Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992), the comedy-drama Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993), for which he co-wrote the screenplay with Robin Bhatt and the musical drama Rangeela (1995) The INR871 million (about US$24.5 million in 1996)-grossing romance Raja Hindustani (1996) garnered Khan his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor,and he followed it by playing against type in the Deepa Mehta-directed Canadian-Indian co-production Earth (1998).He featured in the action dramas Ghulam (1998), in which he also sang the song "Aati Kya Khandala",and Sarfarosh (1999), but found no success in the romance Mann (1999) and the drama Mela (2000).
In 1999, Khan started a production company, Aamir Khan Productions, whose first release Lagaan (2001) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and earned him the National Film Award for Best Popular Film and two Filmfare Awards—Best Film and Best Actor. Also in 2001, he starred alongside Saif Ali Khan and Akshaye Khanna in the acclaimed drama Dil Chahta Hai. Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai are cited in the media as defining films of Hindi cinema. In 2003, Khan featured in a music for Roop Kumar Rathod's song "Jab Bhi Chum Leta Hoon". He was awarded the National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film for producing Madness in the Desert (2004), a documentary on the making of Lagaan. After a four-year absence from film, Khan portrayed the eponymous lead in Mangal Pandey: The Rising (2005), a period film that underperformed at the box office. In 2006, he played leading roles in Fanaa and Rang De Basanti; the latter earned him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor. The following year, Khan made his directorial debut with Taare Zameen Par, a drama on dyslexia starring Darsheel Safary, in which Khan also played a supporting role. The film proved a critical and commercial success, winning him the National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare and two more trophies at Filmfare—Best Film and Best Direction.
Khan played a man suffering from anterograde amnesia in the 2008 psychological thriller Ghajini, after which he portrayed an engineering student in the comedy-drama 3 Idiots (2009), and a reclusive artist in the drama Dhobi Ghat (2010), which he also produced. He worked further as a producer on the satire Peepli Live (2010) and the black comedy Delhi Belly (2011); he also performed an item number in the latter. In 2012, Khan developed and featured as the host of the first season of the television talk show Satyamev Jayate. That same year, he produced and starred as a policeman in the supernatural thriller Talaash: The Answer Lies Within, and reprised his role for an episode of the C.I.D. television series. He co-starred alongside Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra as the antagonist of the adventure film Dhoom 3 in 2013. He returned to television in 2014 to host the second and third seasons of Satyamev Jayate, following which he played an alien in the over INR5.8 billion (US$91 million)-grossing satire PK. Four of Khan's films—Ghajini, 3 Idiots, Dhoom 3, and PK— have held records for being the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time.
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