Shahrukh Khan was born on 2nd November 1965 at the Talwar Nursing Home in New Delhi. He was born with an umbilical cord entangled around his neck. At the time of his birth a nurse said that it was by the blessings of Hanuman and that Khan would be a very lucky child. "I don`t know if I believe in it but it is the one thing I was told by my parents about my birth that I remember" says Shahrukh Khan remembering his childhood. His father Taj Mohammed Khan was from the famous warrior tribe called the tribe of Kuthay and his mother Lateef Fatima was the adopted daughter of Major General Shah Nawaz Khan of the Janjua Rajput clan who also served as a General in the Indian national army of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. His father shifted from Pakistan to India before the partition of the Indian subcontinent. Shahrukh Khan also has a sister named Shehnaz and lovingly called Lalarukh. Khan was overall a brilliant student. He completed his schooling from St. Columba`s school in New Delhi. Shahrukh lived with his family in Rajinder Nagar in New Delhi.

As a child Khan was a naughty as well as very active child. He participated in sports, drama and academics. Shahrukh captained all teams in football, hockey and played cricket at zonal and national level. He was also the winner of the Sword of Honor which was an annual award bequeathed to the student who embodies most the spirit of the school. Following this he attended the Hansraj College to earn an Honors Degree in Economics and after that he pursued Masters in Mass Communication from the Jamia Millia Islamia University. The reason he took up on Mass Communications (Film making) is because he loved the T.V commercials. For a short spell, Shahrukh ran a restaurant in Darya Ganj, New Delhi.

Khan joined theatre with Barry John at Delhi`s theatre action group. He started out as an actor on small screen, in Dil Dariya directed by Lekh Tandon where almost went unrecognized because he played a sardarji. After his parents expired Shahrukh Khan moved from New Delhi to the land of dreams, Mumbai in the year 1991. In the same year he tied the knot with Gauri in a Hindu wedding ceremony and they have two lovely children named as Aryan and Suhana. The actual acting career of Shahrukh Khan started of way back in the year 1988 when he appeared for the first time in television series titled Fauji playing the role of Kutha. In the following year he went on to appear in other television serials such as the Circus, which reflected the life of the circus performers, their happiness and sorrows. In the same year he also appeared in a television film called In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones by Arundhati Roy although his role in this was a brief one.This film was based on the life at Delhi University.

Shahrukh Khan made his debut in Bollywood movies in 1992 with the film Deewana in which he was paired opposite the glamorous damsel Divya Bharti, which turned out to be a box office hit and made a successful launch of his career in the Bollywood Film Industry. His marvelous performance in this film also made him achieve the Filmfare Best Debut Award. Since then Shahrukh has achieved great heights in his career. Even after being pitched against three generation of superstars he still continues to rule over the box office.