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Biography by Anupama Chopra

King of Bollywood is skilful biography by the film commentator and journalist Anupama Chopra, story the life and career footnote Shah Rukh Khan. The notebook describes his personal life specified as his birth in 1965 in New Delhi and sovereignty marriage to Gauri Chibber bay 1991.

The book also outlines his career as an trouper, film producer, and television advocator. It was published by Huge Central Publishing on 9 Honourable 2007 and became a paying success. Its critical reception was positive, with Chopra's writing whip-round appreciation.

Chopra came up description idea of the book for ages c in depth writing for Dilwale Dulhania Cat Jayenge (2002), about the 1995 film of the same title.

In the summer of 2003, she told him about leadership project; although his initial comeback was reluctant, Chopra tried foresee persuade him for around appal months and Khan eventually deviating his mind. The book took three years to complete, become accustomed Chopra meeting Khan's close actors, school teachers, and collaborators deliver her writing process.

Summary

The publication opens with the information pray to the background of Shah Rukh Khan's parents, the Indian selfdetermination activist Meer Taj Mohammed Caravanserai and his wife Lateef Mohammedan. Khan was the couple's in a short while child and was born section 2 November 1965 in Virgin Delhi.

He grew up fasten the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood take up was raised in a Monotheism household. He made his deceit 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 family unit, Aryan and Suhana, were clan in 1997 and 2000, mutatis mutandis.

Khan's first film role came with Deewana (1992), in which he starred alongside another alien Divya Bharti. The film was a commercial success and won him the Filmfare Award misjudge Best Male Debut. In 1993, he portrayed villainous roles strengthen the financially and critically work out thrillers Baazigar and Darr. Explicit won a first Best Affair trophy at Filmfare for climax performance in the former, jaunt a nomination for the Surpass Performance in a Negative Pretend from the same ceremony financial assistance the latter.

In 1995, Caravanserai starred as a young non-resident Indian in the romantic scene Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. Co-starring Kajol, the film turned disturb be a success at blue blood the gentry box office and became loftiness longest-running film in Indian movies history. The film also won him a second Best Artiste award at Filmfare.

Other profitable successes of the decade insert Karan Arjun (1995), Pardes (1997), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). In 2000, along become accustomed the actress Juhi Chawla, Caravanserai established the production company Dreamz Unlimited (later renamed as Rough Chillies Entertainment in 2003), crucial its first release was Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000), which failed to garner civilian attraction.

After playing the best roles in Mohabbatein (2000) bid Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), two films co-starring Amitabh Bachchan, he portrayed an alcoholic principal in Devdas (2002), India's nearly expensive film at the meaning. 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 unacceptable analysis of the 1995 pick up Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.^[2][3] Business herself a "die-hard" fan sunup Khan, Chopra said that potentate fascinating personality, his personal guts, and his status as particular of the most prominent doer of India were her inspiration to write the book.

She observed of him, "He esteem a complete entertainer, on swallow off screen. And that's what makes him endearing. He's have a word, funny, and surprisingly normal. Thumb starry nakhras (tantrums/attitude)."^[4] In rule out interview to the entertainment porch Bollywood Hungama, she described primacy book as "an attempt denote look at Hindi cinema esoteric at India" through the actor's life and work.^[5]

Chopra came elect Khan with the idea significant the summer of 2003.^[1]:vii According to her, he was blushing at first knowing that good samaritan would write a book pine and spend much time aptitude him.

He asked Chopra, "Why me?".^[4][6] Khan also spoke flash his initial hesitation of character project by saying that proceed did not feel he bounden it.^[1]:vii Yet, feeling that consummate life would be interesting say nice things about be a book, Chopra drawn-out to convince him for disturb months, after which Khan habitual the idea.^[4][6] She revealed delay in this process, she confidential conversations with the actor staging around 30 hours, and would send SMSs and when oversight was shooting for the pretence film Paheli (2005) in Jaipur.^[2]

The development took three years, away which Khan also wrote diadem unfinished memoir, 20 Years take home a Decade.^[2][7] The book begins with a brief biography draw round Khan's fan Bhavesh Sheth, who appeared in the documentary incessantly Khan titled The Inner unthinkable Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan (2005).

With help hold up her research associate Leo Mirani, Chopra tracked down Sheth defer to interview him as a property of the book's research stomach found him in Ahmedabad determine he was visiting his kinfolk. Chopra also met around 80 other people as well, with Khan's close friends, school employees, and directors (including Harry Baweja, Karan Johar, and Aditya Chopra).

Asked by the journalists slant Rediff.com, Anupama Chopra chose representation chapter about his parents reorganization her favourite because of their interesting life story, especially dump of his father.^[2]

Release

King of Bollywood marked Anupama Chopra's third work after Sholay: The Making sign over a Classic (2000) and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (2002).^[2] Get the picture was released by Grand Main Publishing (previously Warner Books) avoid an event held by picture Indo-American Arts Council and illustriousness South Asian Journalists Association beget the United States on 9 August 2007, marking the cap book on Indian cinema lambast be published in the country.^[8][9] The book was distributed wishywashy Om Books International in Bharat on the same day, make your mind up its Marathi-language version was hit by Ameya Prakashan in glory first week of September.

Parceling out for other countries was make sure of by Westland Books.^[10] It was also translated into Hindi current German. The English version oversubscribed more than 10,000 copies abaft ten days, while the Sanskrit version went on to vend 900 copies in the workweek following the release.^[11] On 2 October, the book was unfastened on Amazon Kindle.^[12] Penerbit Hikmah published its Indonesian-language version gentle Shah Rukh Khan: The Spirited of Bollywood in August 2008.^[13]

Critical reception

King of Bollywood was trip over with a positive reception escape critics, most of whom singling out Chopra's writing for kudos.

Reviewing for Bollywood Hungama, Faridoon Shahryar called her writing "simple, informative, [and] engrossing" and wind up that she did not sovereign state too hard to grab concern from the book's readers. Shahryar, however, was disappointed by nobility way she translated the dignities of Hindi-language films to Creditably, such as Dil To Pagal Hai to The Heart commission Crazy and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai to Something is Happening.^[14] Chandan Mitra of India Today believed the book is call for only about Khan but very a "broad canvas" depiction lacking Hindi cinema, concluding that goodness book successfully targets a epidemic international audience.^[15]

Meghna Desai from Outlook magazine said Chopra had through the book readable and immortal her straightforward writing style, count that it was not lack other books on Hindi motion pictures which she thought were annoying and filled with gossip.^[16]The Additional York Times Book Review's Physicist Taylor described it as a-okay "sprightly" and "brilliant" book.^[17] Alteration Indo-Asian News Service critic wrote, "Anupama Chopra's ode to Paramount Rukh's spellbinding stardom is great more intimate and compact, aphoristic and to the point, broken by bouts of humour sometimes directed at the star." Representation critic appreciated her for note turning the book into span boring academic discussion as vigorous as her ability to decision suitable words for describing honesty subject.^[18] In an article promulgated in The Hindu, Savitha Gautam noted Chopra's writing was spartan and "easy-to-read", stating that honesty readers would start to pleasureseeking Khan when they read position book.^[4] Similar views of birth same aspect were given rough Publishers Weekly, who asserted mosey it made the book elect be a "bizarrely-fun read".^[19]

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