Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan 
Shah rukh Khan also known as SKR. He was born  2 November 1965 is an Indian actor, producer, television personality and philanthropist. Referred to in the media as "Badshah of Bollywood" or "King Khan", he has appeared in over 50 Hindi film in genres including romance, Actor and comedy. His work in Bollywood has earned him  including fourteen Filmfare award from thirty nominations. His eighth Filmfare best actor  put him in a tie for the most in that category. For his contribution to film, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma in 2005 and the Government of France awarded him  in 2007, and later in 2014 the France's highest civilian award. Khan was the second-richest actor in the world in 2014.

Khan is currently co-chairman of the motion picture production company Red Chilies Entertainment and its subsidiaries, and is a co-owner of the Indian Permier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Rider. In 2007, he made his debut as a television presenter with the Star Plus game show. Media often label him "Brand SRK" because of his brand endorsement and entrepreneurship ventures. Khan has also been involved in philanthropic endeavours related to health care, relief funds, and children's education—for which he was honoured with UNESCO's Pyramide con Marni award in 2011. He is considered to be one of the biggest film stars in cinematic history and has a massive fan following; the Lose Angles Times described him as "the world's biggest movie star".He regularly features in listings of the most influential people in Indian Culture and in 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world.

Background 

Shah Rukh Khan

Khan was born on 2 November 1965 in New Dehli India^. brought up in Manglore for the first five years of his life.His grandfather Ifthikar Ahmed served as chief engineer in Mangalore port in the 1960s^. His father Meer Taj Mohammed Khan, an ethnic Pashtun, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawer,British India (present-day Pakistan).According to Khan, his paternal grandfather was born in Afghanistan. Shahrukh Khan's father came to New Delhi from Qissa Khawani Bazaar in Peshawar before the 1947 ^. His mother Lateef Fatima was the daughter of a senior government engineer. Although she was reported to be the adopted daughter of Shah Nawaz Khan, a Major General in the Indian National Army, the army denied those reports. According to Khan, his father was related to Shah Nawaz Khan. His parents met when his mother was involved in an auto accident and his father donated blood for her. Khan described himself on Twitter as "half Hydrabadi (mother), half Pathan (father), some Kashmiri (grandmother)".
Khan grew up in the Ragindra neighbourhood of Delhi.Khan attended St.Columdia School where he received the school's highest award, the Sword of Honour.He enrolled at Hnasraj College (1985–1988) to earn his Bachelors degree in Economics, but spent much of his time at Delhi's "Theatre Action Group" (TAG) where he studied acting under the mentorship of theatre director He started studying for a Masters Degree at Mallia Islamia , but left to pursue his career. He also attended the National School of DRama Dehli during his early career in Bollywood.His father died of cancer when Khan was in his mid teens, and his mother died in 1990 after a prolonged illness. The death of Khan's parents at an early age affected him greatly because he was very attached to them. He described these events as a motivator for his own work ethic.
Khan moved to Mumbai in 1991. He married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991. According to Khan, while he strongly believes in , he also values his wife's religion. At home, his children follow both religions; the Quranis situated next to the Hindu deities. They have a son Aryan (born 1997) and a daughter Suhana (born 2000). In 2013 they became parents of a third child named AbRam through a surrogate mother.Khan's older sister Shehnaz also lives with them in their Mumbai mansion named Mannat
Khan's popularity has been documented in several Indian and international non-fiction films
In 2005, Khan was the subject of 20 paintings by Indian artist Anjana Kuthiala
Khan's work in Bollywood films has garnered him fourteen Filmfare Awards from thirty nominations, including eight for Best Actor; tied for the most in the category with Dilip kumar

Salman Khan

Salman Khan
Salman khan was born on 27 December 1965)is an Indian Actor, producer, television presenter, and philanthropist known for his Hindi Film . He is the son of actor and screenwriter . Khan began his acting career with Biwi ho to esi but it was his second film (Maine Pyar Kia) (1989), in which he acted in a lead role, that garnered him the Film Fare Avarde. Khan has starred in several commercially successful films, such as Saajan (1991), Hum Ap K Hain Kon(1994), Karan Arjun (1995), Judwaa(1997), Payr Kia To Darna Kia (1998), Biwi No.1 (1999), and Hum Sath Sath Hain  (1999), having appeared in the highest grossing film nine separate years during his career, a record that remains unbroken.

Salman Khan

Background

Khan with brothers Arbaz Khan and Sohail Khan

Khan's mother is a Mahatashtian Hindu.

His stepmother is Helen, a former actress, who co-starred with him in a few films. He has two brothers, Arbaz Khan who is married to Malaika Arora Khan who is an actress, VJ and host, and Sohail Khan who is married to Seema and they have two sons: Nirvaan and Yohan sometimes also known as Aslam Yakub Khan(born June 2011), two sisters, Alvira who is married to actor Atul  and Arpita, the youngest in the whole family.
Khan finished his schooling at St.Stanisluas in Bandra, Mumbai, as did his younger brothers Arbaaz and Sohail. Earlier, he studied at The Scindia, Glawor for a few years along with younger brother Arbaaz
Salman Khan made his acting debut with a supporting role in the 1988 film Biwi ho to esi in which his voice was dubbed by someone else. His first leading role in a movie was in Soorajs romantic family drama Maine Pyar Kia (1989)^. It earned him his first nomination for a Best Actor at Filmfare, but the much expected  was awarded to Sooraj Bhartawaj only^.
Later Filmfare reactified their mistake by presenting the same award after 15 long years. Maine Pyar Kiya was later dubbed in English as When Love Calls, a 125-minute version, was the biggest hit in the Caribbean market at Guyana and also dominated the box-office collections at Maine Pyar Kiya had also been dubbed in Spanish as Te Amo, the first experiment of its kind. This 125-minute film also proved its universal appeal with a glorious 10-week premiere run at LIma, capital of Peri. In Telugu as Prema Paavuraalu, it crossed the 25 weeks at Visand had 100 plus day run at six centres in  
1990 saw one film release starring Khan, was a box office success.followed by three moderately successful films in 1991, Pather K Phool and Sanam Bewafa In the same year, Khan co-starred with Sanjy Dutt and Madhuri Dixit in the Romance Drama film The movie was critical and financial success.Despite these early successes, nearly all of his 1992–1993 releases resulted in box office failures.Now Salnam Gives back to back hit films lke jai ho and KICK.

Acting style

He is one of the most commercially successful movie stars of India. While reviewing his performance in Tere Naam wrote, "Salman Khan is exceptional in a role that fits him to the T. He breathes fire in sequences that demand uneasiness. But beneath the tough exterior lies a vulnerable person and this facet in particular comes to the fore in the latter reels. His emotional outbursts are splendid...". Adarsh also remarked that "Wanted that it will run only on Salman's star power."commenting about him says that "When it comes to a Salman Khan or a Rajnikant film, their performance is not important. It’s the audience performance that counts." He also received rave reviews for his portrayal of colorful cop Chulbul Pandey a.k.a Robinhood Pandey in Dabang. Anupama Chopra of NDTV said, "It's the role of a lifetime and Salman Khan bites into it like a starving man devours a feast. He inhabits it fully, strutting and swaggering and even, spoofing himself." He has thus established himself as one of the leading actors in Hindi cinema. In August 2012, he was voted no.3 "India's Greatest Actor" in poll.

Ranveer Singh

Ranveer Singh

Ranveer Singh Bhavnani

He was born 6 July 1985 is an Indian actor working in Hindi films. After completing a bachelor's degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, Singh returned to India to pursue a career in film. In 2010, he successfully auditioned for a leading role in Yash Raj Films's romantic comedy Band Baaja Baaraat. The film emerged as a critical and commercial success, earning Singh a Filmfare Award in the Best Male Debut category.
Singh subsequently garnered praise for experimenting with diverse roles, including a disguised robber in the period film Lootera (2013), a Gujarati boy in the tragic romance Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013) which became his biggest commercial success and earned him a Filmfare Award for Best Actor nomination, and a Bengali goon in the action-drama Gunday (2014).

His life and background

Ranveer Singh Bhavnani was born on 6 July 1985 in Mumbai, India, to Jagjit Singh Bhavnani and Anju Bhavnani. He has an elder sister named Ritika Bhavnani. His cousins are actress Sonam Kapoor and producer Rhea Kapoor, daughters of actor Anil Kapoor and wife Sunita Kapoor; Singh is their cousin from Sunita Kapoor's side Bhavnani. Singh explains that he dropped his original surname Bhavnani, since he felt that the name would have been "too long, too many syllables", thus downplaying his brand as a "saleable commodity".
Singh always aspired to be an actor, participating in several school plays and debates.Once when he had gone for a birthday party, his grandmother asked him to dance and entertain her. Singh remembers that he suddenly jumped in the lawn and started dancing to the song "Chumma Chumma" from the 1991 Bollywood action film, Hum. He felt the thrill of performing and was interested in acting and dancing. "I knew that I had to do something related to performing arts and I enjoyed acting the most as it incorporated so many different art forms. I must say, I was a very filmy kid. I used to watch a lot of TV and get very influenced by Bollywood", he recalls. After he joined junior college at H.R. College of Commerce and Economics in Mumbai, Singh realised that getting a break in the film industry was not at all easy, as it was mostly people with a filmy background who got the prime opportunities in Bollywood. Feeling that the idea of acting was "too far-fetched", Singh focused on creative writing. He went to the United States where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington.
At university, he decided to take acting classes. On the first day, the instructor asked him to do an impromptu act. Singh was again convinced that performing arts and acting was what he wanted to do, and took up theatre as his minor. After completing his studies and returning to Mumbai in 2007, .Then he started working as an Assistant Director, but left it to pursue acting seriously. He decided to send his portfolio to directors.My ambition was always to bag a lead role in a film and hence I refrained from doing any ads, TV serials, music videos as I felt that a fresh face always works much better. It was a gamble and I took that gamble telling myself that I will give it my all to bag a lead role", he says. For the next three years, Singh went to producer's offices, showing his pictures and asking for work. He would go for all kinds of auditions, but did not get any good opportunities, while only getting calls for minor roles once in every four or five months. "Everything was so bleak. It was very frustrating. There were times I would think whether I was doing the right thing or not.

Career

In January 2010, Singh was called for an audition for Yash Raj Films by Shanoo Sharma, the head of the casting division for the entertainment company.They informed him that it was for a lead role in their film titled Band Baaja Baaraat, a romantic comedy set in the world of wedding planning. Singh went to Yash Raj for his audition, and was asked to perform two scenes. Singh added, "I was surprised because I knew Yash Raj does not launch new heroes. But I knew they were legitimate and I knew this would be the biggest and most important audition I would ever be giving."Aditya Chopra, the Vice President of YRF, later saw the audition tapes on video and was impressed by Singh's acting, and decided that he fit the part of Bittoo Sharma, the hero of the film. However, the director Maneesh Sharma needed some more convincing and he was called for a few more auditions over the next two weeks until they were completely convinced of his caliber. Sharma would meet him and try to analyze different facets of his personality by asking him to dance, act out emotional scenes, reading with co-actors, reading with the writer as well as camera tests. After the two weeks of testing, Singh was confirmed for the role of Bittoo, with Anushka Sharma playing the female lead.
Singh described the role of Bittoo Sharma as "your typical Delhi University ka launda.He is a loafer who is not interested one bit in studies. All he does is fool around with his friends in and around college and do a lot of awaragardi. He is a very chilled out guy full of masti who has no worry whatsoever about his future or career.To prepare for the role, he spent time studying students at the Delhi University campus. Prior to the release of the film, trade analysts were skeptical of the film's commercial potential, citing the middling response to Yash Raj Films' last few productions, the lack of a male star and the fact that the female lead, Anushka Sharma, was by then an "almost-forgotten" actress.However, Band Baaja Baaraat went on to become a sleeper hit. Singh's portrayal of Bittoo was praised, with Anupama Chopra of writing that "debutant actor Ranveer Singh is pitch perfect in the role of the uncouth but good-hearted small town slacker who is a bit of a duffer when it comes to matters of the heart.