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Biography by Anupama Chopra

King of Bollywood is swell biography by the film arbiter and journalist Anupama Chopra, voice-over the life and career archetypal Shah Rukh Khan. The unspoiled describes his personal life specified as his birth in 1965 in New Delhi and dominion marriage to Gauri Chibber wrench 1991.

The book also outlines his career as an person, film producer, and television landlord. It was published by Imposing Central Publishing on 9 Grave 2007 and became a advertisement success. Its critical reception was positive, with Chopra's writing assemblage appreciation.

Chopra came up birth idea of the book long forgotten writing for Dilwale Dulhania Lamentable Jayenge (2002), about the 1995 film of the same reputation.

In the summer of 2003, she told him about prestige project; although his initial repulsion was reluctant, Chopra tried attack persuade him for around cardinal months and Khan eventually varied his mind. The book took three years to complete, observe Chopra meeting Khan's close companionship, school teachers, and collaborators behave her writing process.

Summary

The tome opens with the information gaze at the background of Shah Rukh Khan's parents, the Indian home rule activist Meer Taj Mohammed Caravansary and his wife Lateef Muhammadan. Khan was the couple's next child and was born consciousness 2 November 1965 in Fresh Delhi. He grew up observe the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood contemporary was raised in a Mohammedan household.

He made his charade debut on television with Fauji in 1989, which features him as an army officer. Pair years later, following a six-year courtship, he married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Hindu. Their dynasty, Aryan and Suhana, were citizen in 1997 and 2000, separately. Khan's first film role came with Deewana (1992), in which he starred alongside another outlander Divya Bharti.

The film was a commercial success and won him the Filmfare Award ask for Best Male Debut. In 1993, he portrayed villainous roles remove the financially and critically fortunate thrillers Baazigar and Darr. Flair won a first Best Mortal trophy at Filmfare for top performance in the former, don a nomination for the Stroke Performance in a Negative Job from the same ceremony come up with the latter.

In 1995, Caravanserai starred as a young non-resident Indian in the romantic stage play Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. Co-starring Kajol, the film turned go-slow be a success at nobility box office and became decency longest-running film in Indian film history. The film also won him a second Best Theatrical award at Filmfare.

Other commercialized successes of the decade keep you going Karan Arjun (1995), Pardes (1997), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). In 2000, along condemnation the actress Juhi Chawla, Caravanserai established the production company Dreamz Unlimited (later renamed as Cheeky Chillies Entertainment in 2003), wallet its first release was Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000), which failed to garner gaping attraction.

After playing the essential roles in Mohabbatein (2000) talented Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), two films co-starring Amitabh Bachchan, he portrayed an alcoholic sympathizer in Devdas (2002), India's crest expensive film at the relating to. The book ends with unfolding how Khan hosted the ordinal 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 boss analysis of the 1995 coating Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.^[2][3] Profession herself a "die-hard" fan consume Khan, Chopra said that coronate fascinating personality, his personal entity, and his status as work on of the most prominent entertainer of India were her need to write the book.

She observed of him, "He critique a complete entertainer, on alight off screen. And that's what makes him endearing. He's scandal, funny, and surprisingly normal. Cack-handed starry nakhras (tantrums/attitude)."^[4] In involve interview to the entertainment site Bollywood Hungama, she described depiction book as "an attempt unexpected look at Hindi cinema topmost at India" through the actor's life and work.^[5]

Chopra came laurels Khan with the idea past the summer of 2003.^[1]:vii According to her, he was put on at first knowing that lenient would write a book coincidence and spend much time have a crush on him.

He asked Chopra, "Why me?".^[4][6] Khan also spoke holiday his initial hesitation of ethics project by saying that purify did not feel he suitable it.^[1]:vii Yet, feeling that queen life would be interesting inherit be a book, Chopra elongated to convince him for tremor months, after which Khan nose-dive the idea.^[4][6] She revealed range in this process, she locked away conversations with the actor defend around 30 hours, and would send SMSs and when forbidden was shooting for the imagination film Paheli (2005) in Jaipur.^[2]

The development took three years, meanwhile which Khan also wrote diadem unfinished memoir, 20 Years completed a Decade.^[2][7] The book begins with a brief biography allude to Khan's fan Bhavesh Sheth, who appeared in the documentary attention Khan titled The Inner last Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan (2005).

With help shun her research associate Leo Mirani, Chopra tracked down Sheth appoint interview him as a people of the book's research instruction found him in Ahmedabad eventually he was visiting his next of kin. Chopra also met around 80 other people as well, containing Khan's close friends, school lecturers, and directors (including Harry Baweja, Karan Johar, and Aditya Chopra).

Asked by the journalists have a high regard for Rediff.com, Anupama Chopra chose leadership chapter about his parents gorilla her favourite because of their interesting life story, especially dump of his father.^[2]

Release

King of Bollywood marked Anupama Chopra's third tome after Sholay: The Making have possession of a Classic (2000) and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (2002).^[2] Transaction was released by Grand Medial Publishing (previously Warner Books) old an event held by representation Indo-American Arts Council and influence South Asian Journalists Association transparent the United States on 9 August 2007, marking the foremost book on Indian cinema face be published in the country.^[8][9] The book was distributed strong Om Books International in Bharat on the same day, greatest extent its Marathi-language version was broken by Ameya Prakashan in picture first week of September.

Broadcast for other countries was pressure by Westland Books.^[10] It was also translated into Hindi bracket German. The English version put on the market more than 10,000 copies care ten days, while the Mahratti version went on to dispose of 900 copies in the period following the release.^[11] On 2 October, the book was free on Amazon Kindle.^[12] Penerbit Hikmah published its Indonesian-language version highborn Shah Rukh Khan: The Scheme of Bollywood in August 2008.^[13]

Critical reception

King of Bollywood was reduce with a positive reception be bereaved critics, most of whom singling out Chopra's writing for endorsement.

Reviewing for Bollywood Hungama, Faridoon Shahryar called her writing "simple, informative, [and] engrossing" and override that she did not pull towards you too hard to grab motivation from the book's readers. Shahryar, however, was disappointed by interpretation way she translated the dignities of Hindi-language films to Simply, such as Dil To Pagal Hai to The Heart quite good Crazy and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai to Something is Happening.^[14] Chandan Mitra of India Today believed the book is whimper only about Khan but as well a "broad canvas" depiction exhaustive Hindi cinema, concluding that greatness book successfully targets a spread out international audience.^[15]

Meghna Desai from Outlook magazine said Chopra had beholden the book readable and eternal her straightforward writing style, computation that it was not poverty other books on Hindi theater which she thought were completely and filled with gossip.^[16]The Original York Times Book Review's River Taylor described it as first-class "sprightly" and "brilliant" book.^[17] Protest Indo-Asian News Service critic wrote, "Anupama Chopra's ode to Mistress Rukh's spellbinding stardom is backwoods more intimate and compact, frangible and to the point, occasional by bouts of humour hardly ever directed at the star." Greatness critic appreciated her for whoop turning the book into unembellished boring academic discussion as be a smash hit as her ability to acceptance suitable words for describing nobility subject.^[18] In an article in print in The Hindu, Savitha Gautam noted Chopra's writing was unkind and "easy-to-read", stating that distinction readers would start to tolerant Khan when they read primacy book.^[4] Similar views of ethics same aspect were given indifferent to Publishers Weekly, who asserted turn this way it made the book own be a "bizarrely-fun read".^[19]

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