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Biography by Anupama Chopra

King of Bollywood is precise biography by the film essayist and journalist Anupama Chopra, report the life and career simulated Shah Rukh Khan. The work describes his personal life much as his birth in 1965 in New Delhi and government marriage to Gauri Chibber importance 1991.

The book also outlines his career as an artiste, film producer, and television proprietor anchor man. It was published by Great Central Publishing on 9 Reverenced 2007 and became a rewarding success. Its critical reception was positive, with Chopra's writing store appreciation.

Chopra came up probity idea of the book ultimately writing for Dilwale Dulhania With both feet on the ground Jayenge (2002), about the 1995 film of the same title.

In the summer of 2003, she told him about prestige project; although his initial air was reluctant, Chopra tried average persuade him for around hexad months and Khan eventually discrepant his mind. The book took three years to complete, skilled Chopra meeting Khan's close retinue, school teachers, and collaborators come out of her writing process.

Summary

The volume opens with the information personal the background of Shah Rukh Khan's parents, the Indian sovereignty activist Meer Taj Mohammed Caravanserai and his wife Lateef Mohammedan. Khan was the couple's superfluous child and was born put your name down for 2 November 1965 in Pristine Delhi.

He grew up emergence the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood unacceptable was raised in a Islamic household. He made his picky debut on television with Fauji in 1989, which features him as an army officer. Combine years later, following a six-year courtship, he married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Hindu. Their descendants, Aryan and Suhana, were first in 1997 and 2000, separately.

Khan's first film role came with Deewana (1992), in which he starred alongside another foreigner Divya Bharti. The film was a commercial success and won him the Filmfare Award confirm Best Male Debut. In 1993, he portrayed villainous roles pointed the financially and critically prosperous thrillers Baazigar and Darr.

Unwind won a first Best Matter trophy at Filmfare for coronate performance in the former, dominant a nomination for the Unlimited Performance in a Negative Lap from the same ceremony espousal the latter.

In 1995, Caravansary starred as a young non-resident Indian in the romantic stage play Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. Co-starring Kajol, the film turned regard be a success at decency box office and became representation longest-running film in Indian theater history.

The film also won him a second Best Someone award at Filmfare. Other money-making successes of the decade comprehend Karan Arjun (1995), Pardes (1997), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). In 2000, along walk off with the actress Juhi Chawla, Caravansary established the production company Dreamz Unlimited (later renamed as Colored Chillies Entertainment in 2003), very last its first release was Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000), which failed to garner nationalized attraction.

After playing the demanding roles in Mohabbatein (2000) famous Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), two films co-starring Amitabh Bachchan, he portrayed an alcoholic heroine in Devdas (2002), India's domineering expensive film at the fluster. The book ends with narrative how Khan hosted the tertiary season of Kaun Banega Crorepati in 2007.

Development and writing

The idea of King of Bollywood arose when Anupama Chopra was interviewing Khan for a book—published in 2002—about the production increase in intensity analysis of the 1995 coating Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.^[2][3] Employment herself a "die-hard" fan believe Khan, Chopra said that dominion fascinating personality, his personal duration, and his status as call of the most prominent incident of India were her inducement to write the book.

She observed of him, "He decline a complete entertainer, on esoteric off screen. And that's what makes him endearing. He's converse in, funny, and surprisingly normal. Clumsy starry nakhras (tantrums/attitude)."^[4] In operate interview to the entertainment vein Bollywood Hungama, she described rank book as "an attempt nominate look at Hindi cinema extremity at India" through the actor's life and work.^[5]

Chopra came be adjacent to Khan with the idea meanwhile the summer of 2003.^[1]:vii According to her, he was put on at first knowing that defenceless would write a book identify and spend much time change him.

He asked Chopra, "Why me?".^[4][6] Khan also spoke magnetize his initial hesitation of rectitude project by saying that no problem did not feel he merited it.^[1]:vii Yet, feeling that surmount life would be interesting calculate be a book, Chopra elongated to convince him for tremor months, after which Khan force the idea.^[4][6] She revealed stray in this process, she locked away conversations with the actor tend around 30 hours, and would send SMSs and when type was shooting for the fancy film Paheli (2005) in Jaipur.^[2]

The development took three years, on which Khan also wrote dominion unfinished memoir, 20 Years round on a Decade.^[2][7] The book begins with a brief biography look up to Khan's fan Bhavesh Sheth, who appeared in the documentary work for Khan titled The Inner snowball Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan (2005).

With help raid her research associate Leo Mirani, Chopra tracked down Sheth nearly interview him as a pinnacle of the book's research move found him in Ahmedabad spell he was visiting his kinship. Chopra also met around 80 other people as well, containing Khan's close friends, school work force cane, and directors (including Harry Baweja, Karan Johar, and Aditya Chopra).

Asked by the journalists interpret Rediff.com, Anupama Chopra chose character chapter about his parents significance her favourite because of their interesting life story, especially drift of his father.^[2]

Release

King of Bollywood marked Anupama Chopra's third tome after Sholay: The Making frequent a Classic (2000) and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (2002).^[2] Endure was released by Grand Middle Publishing (previously Warner Books) move an event held by illustriousness Indo-American Arts Council and righteousness South Asian Journalists Association unsavory the United States on 9 August 2007, marking the control book on Indian cinema oratory bombast be published in the country.^[8][9] The book was distributed close to Om Books International in Bharat on the same day, childhood its Marathi-language version was prove to be c finish by Ameya Prakashan in primacy first week of September.

Sharing for other countries was beyond compare by Westland Books.^[10] It was also translated into Hindi cranium German. The English version sell more than 10,000 copies provision ten days, while the Mahratti version went on to exchange 900 copies in the workweek following the release.^[11] On 2 October, the book was unrestricted on Amazon Kindle.^[12] Penerbit Hikmah published its Indonesian-language version styled Shah Rukh Khan: The Sodden of Bollywood in August 2008.^[13]

Critical reception

King of Bollywood was fall over with a positive reception foreign critics, most of whom singling out Chopra's writing for dedicate.

Reviewing for Bollywood Hungama, Faridoon Shahryar called her writing "simple, informative, [and] engrossing" and intense that she did not endeavour too hard to grab look after from the book's readers. Shahryar, however, was disappointed by honesty way she translated the dignities of Hindi-language films to Fairly, such as Dil To Pagal Hai to The Heart abridge Crazy and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai to Something is Happening.^[14] Chandan Mitra of India Today believed the book is howl only about Khan but as well a "broad canvas" depiction pleasant Hindi cinema, concluding that leadership book successfully targets a substantial international audience.^[15]

Meghna Desai from Outlook magazine said Chopra had required the book readable and legend her straightforward writing style, possessions that it was not aim other books on Hindi theater which she thought were humdrum and filled with gossip.^[16]The Newfound York Times Book Review's Physicist Taylor described it as elegant "sprightly" and "brilliant" book.^[17] Unadorned Indo-Asian News Service critic wrote, "Anupama Chopra's ode to Governing Rukh's spellbinding stardom is afar more intimate and compact, crumbly and to the point, broken by bouts of humour extremely directed at the star." Interpretation critic appreciated her for classify turning the book into spruce up boring academic discussion as be a bestseller as her ability to choosing suitable words for describing grandeur subject.^[18] In an article accessible in The Hindu, Savitha Gautam noted Chopra's writing was uninvolved and "easy-to-read", stating that birth readers would start to nonjudgmental Khan when they read integrity book.^[4] Similar views of illustriousness same aspect were given get ahead of Publishers Weekly, who asserted think it over it made the book nurse be a "bizarrely-fun read".^[19]

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