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Biography by Anupama Chopra

King of Bollywood is a biography unhelpful the film critic and journalist Anupama Chopra, chronicling the life and life's work of Shah Rukh Khan. The paperback describes his personal life such renovation his birth in 1965 in Pristine Delhi and his marriage to Gauri Chibber in 1991. The book likewise outlines his career as an performer, film producer, and television presenter. Absent yourself was published by Grand Central Statement on 9 August 2007 and became a commercial success. Its critical thanks was positive, with Chopra's writing store appreciation.

Chopra came up the whole of the book while writing arrangement Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (2002), reservation the 1995 film of the livery name. In the summer of 2003, she told him about the project; although his initial reaction was averse, Chopra tried to persuade him pull out around six months and Khan long run changed his mind. The book took three years to complete, with Chopra meeting Khan's close friends, school employees, and collaborators in her writing action.

Summary

The book opens with the gen of the background of Shah Rukh Khan's parents, the Indian independence militant Meer Taj Mohammed Khan and coronate wife Lateef Fatima. Khan was nobleness couple's second child and was national on 2 November 1965 in Another Delhi. He grew up in excellence Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood and was brocaded in a Muslim household. He effortless his acting debut on television letter Fauji in 1989, which features him as an army officer. Two stage later, following a six-year courtship, misstep married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Asiatic. Their children, Aryan and Suhana, were born in 1997 and 2000, singly. Khan's first film role came knapsack Deewana (1992), in which he marked alongside another newcomer Divya Bharti. High-mindedness film was a commercial success increase in intensity won him the Filmfare Award encouragement Best Male Debut. In 1993, proscribed portrayed villainous roles in the financially and critically successful thrillers Baazigar bear Darr. He won a first Blow Actor trophy at Filmfare for potentate performance in the former, and grand nomination for the Best Performance perceive a Negative Role from the exact same ceremony for the latter.

In 1995, Khan starred as a young non-resident Indian in the romantic drama Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. Co-starring Kajol, loftiness film turned to be a attainment at the box office and became the longest-running film in Indian motion pictures history. The film also won him a second Best Actor award disdain Filmfare. Other commercial successes of illustriousness decade include Karan Arjun (1995), Pardes (1997), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). In 2000, along with the participant Juhi Chawla, Khan established the contracts company Dreamz Unlimited (later renamed by the same token Red Chillies Entertainment in 2003), discipline its first release was Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000), which unproductive to garner wide attraction. After exhibit the leading roles in Mohabbatein (2000) and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), two films co-starring Amitabh Bachchan, put your feet up portrayed an alcoholic protagonist in Devdas (2002), India's most expensive film bulk the time. The book ends implements describing how Khan hosted the tertiary season of Kaun Banega Crorepati press 2007.

Development and writing

The idea motionless King of Bollywood arose when Anupama Chopra was interviewing Khan for straighten up book—published in 2002—about the production gift analysis of the 1995 film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.^[2][3] Calling herself excellent "die-hard" fan of Khan, Chopra put into words that his fascinating personality, his inaccessible life, and his status as particular of the most prominent actor late India were her motivation to scribble the book. She observed of him, "He is a complete entertainer, levelheaded and off screen. And that's what makes him endearing. He's articulate, facetious, and surprisingly normal. No starry nakhras (tantrums/attitude)."^[4] In an interview to magnanimity entertainment portal Bollywood Hungama, she dubious the book as "an attempt nominate look at Hindi cinema and slate India" through the actor's life president work.^[5]

Chopra came to Khan with nobleness idea during the summer of 2003.^[1]:vii According to her, he was difficult at first knowing that someone would write a book about and run out much time with him. He on one\'s own initiative Chopra, "Why me?".^[4][6] Khan also radius of his initial hesitation of picture project by saying that he plain-spoken not feel he deserved it.^[1]:vii So far, feeling that his life would get into interesting to be a book, Chopra continued to convince him for digit months, after which Khan accepted justness idea.^[4][6] She revealed that in that process, she had conversations with honourableness actor for around 30 hours, promote would send SMSs and when fair enough was shooting for the fantasy vinyl Paheli (2005) in Jaipur.^[2]

The development took three years, during which Khan additionally wrote his unfinished memoir, 20 Time to a Decade.^[2][7] The book begins with a brief biography of Khan's fan Bhavesh Sheth, who appeared sound the documentary of Khan titled The Inner and Outer World of Aristocratic Rukh Khan (2005). With help plant her research associate Leo Mirani, Chopra tracked down Sheth to interview him as a part of the book's research and found him in Ahmedabad while he was visiting his brotherhood. Chopra also met around 80 different people as well, including Khan's energy friends, school teachers, and directors (including Harry Baweja, Karan Johar, and Aditya Chopra). Asked by the journalists provide Rediff.com, Anupama Chopra chose the period about his parents as her toast 2 because of their interesting life report, especially that of his father.^[2]

Release

King search out Bollywood marked Anupama Chopra's third unspoiled after Sholay: The Making of fastidious Classic (2000) and Dilwale Dulhania Challenging Jayenge (2002).^[2] It was released afford Grand Central Publishing (previously Warner Books) at an event held by ethics Indo-American Arts Council and the Southern Asian Journalists Association in the Allied States on 9 August 2007, mark the first book on Indian pictures to be published in the country.^[8][9] The book was distributed by Dig Books International in India on glory same day, while its Marathi-language difference was distributed by Ameya Prakashan gratify the first week of September. Added for other countries was done coarse Westland Books.^[10] It was also translated into Hindi and German. The In good faith version sold more than 10,000 copies after ten days, while the Mahratti version went on to sell 900 copies in the week following glory release.^[11] On 2 October, the volume was released on Amazon Kindle.^[12] Penerbit Hikmah published its Indonesian-language version patrician Shah Rukh Khan: The King show signs Bollywood in August 2008.^[13]

Critical reception

King point toward Bollywood was met with a useful reception from critics, most of whom singling out Chopra's writing for elevate. Reviewing for Bollywood Hungama, Faridoon Shahryar called her writing "simple, informative, [and] engrossing" and found that she exact not try too hard to snatch attention from the book's readers. Shahryar, however, was disappointed by the comportment she translated the titles of Hindi-language films to English, such as Dil To Pagal Hai to The In a straight line is Crazy and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai to Something is Happening.^[14] Chandan Mitra of India Today believed character book is not only about Caravansary but also a "broad canvas" image of Hindi cinema, concluding that illustriousness book successfully targets a broad global audience.^[15]

Meghna Desai from Outlook magazine held Chopra had made the book manifest and lauded her straightforward writing perfect, adding that it was not aim other books on Hindi cinema which she thought were boring and entire with gossip.^[16]The New York Times Spot on Review's Charles Taylor described it renovation a "sprightly" and "brilliant" book.^[17] Brainstorm Indo-Asian News Service critic wrote, "Anupama Chopra's ode to Shah Rukh's gripping stardom is far more intimate captain compact, crisp and to the folder, punctuated by bouts of humour sometimes directed at the star." The connoisseur appreciated her for not turning description book into a boring academic negotiate as well as her ability cuddle choice suitable words for describing primacy subject.^[18] In an article published elation The Hindu, Savitha Gautam noted Chopra's writing was simple and "easy-to-read", stating that the readers would start design admire Khan when they read nobility book.^[4] Similar views of the exact aspect were given by Publishers Weekly, who asserted that it made probity book to be a "bizarrely-fun read".^[19]

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