salman khan

Intro Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (pronounced [səlˈmɑːn xɑːn]; born 27 December 1965)[1] is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who predominantly works in Hindi films. In a career spanning over three decades, Khan's awards, include two National Film Awards as a film producer, and two Filmfare Awards as an actor.[2] He is cited in the media as one of the most commercially successful actors of Indian cinema.[3][4] Forbes has included Khan in listings of the highest-paid celebrities in the world, in 2015 and 2018, with him being the highest-ranked Indian in the latter year.[5][6][7] Khan has starred in the annual highest-grossing Hindi film of 10 individual years, the highest for any actor.[8] Salman KhanSalman Khan is the second eldest son of screenwriter Salim Khan and his first wife Sushila Charak, who adopted the name Salma.[18][19] Born to a Muslim father and Hindu mother on 27 December 1965, Salman Khan was brought up in both faiths.[20] In 1981, when Salim married the actress Helen, the children's relationship with their father grew hostile and only recovered years later.[21] Salman Khan's paternal great-grandparents are believed to be Alakozai Pashtuns from Afghanistan who immigrated to Indore State, Indore Residency (now in Madhya Pradesh), British India in the mid-1800s;[22][23][24][25] however, Jasim Khan in his biography of the actor states that his ancestors belonged to the Akuzai sub-tribe of the Yusufzai Pashtuns from Malakand in the Swat Valley of North-West Frontier Province, British India (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan).[26] His grandfather Abdul Rashid Khan was a Deputy Inspector General of the Indore state who was awarded the Diler Jung award of the Holkar times.[27] Khan's mother is a homemaker,[28][29] whose father Baldev Singh Charak,[30] a Dogra Rajput,[31] comes from Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir[30][32] and whose Maratha mother comes from Maharashtra.[29] Khan can also speak Marathi, in addition to Hindi and Eng