Salman Khan

Salman Khan (born Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on 27 December 1965)[2] is an Indian film actor, producer, television presenter & philanthropist.The son of actor and screenwriter Salim Khan, Khan began his acting career with Biwi Ho To Aisi but it was his second film Maine Pyar Kiya where he acted in a lead role and garnered Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.Khan has starred in several commercially successful films, Khan has been involved in several charities during his career.. He has started an NGO called Being Human which will sell T-shirts and other products online and in stores. A portion of the sales will go to a worthy cause supporting the underprivileged. Being Human Foundation is a registered charitable trust set up by Salman Khan for helping the cause of the underprivileged. In its early days, Salman Khan set up and funded the Foundation using his own money. The Foundation has two focus areas: Education and Healthcare. To increase the reach and corpus of the Foundation, Salman Khan has undertaken initiatives such as Being Human Art; Being Human merchandise; and Being Human Gitanjali Gold Coins. In 2011, he launched his own production company called SKBH Productions (Salman Khan Being Human Productions). Money which will be generated from film productions will be donated to Being Human. First film made under the banner was kids entertainer Chillar Party, which went on to win 3 National Awards, for Best Children's film, best original screenplay and Child Artist's Award ..

In January 2012, Khan has offered to pay 40 lakh (US$73,000) for releasing around 400 prisoners from around 63 prisons in the state of Uttar Pradesh via his NGO. The prisoners had completed their term but due to economical reasons, they were unable to pay a legal fine for their charges.. 2009present: commercial success 2009 marked a significant turning point in Khan's career.Starting with Wanted, directed by choreographer turned director Prabhu Deva became a boxoffice success and earned superhit status.[33] In the same year, he appeared in two other films, Main Aurr Mrs Khanna and London Dreams. While London Dreams doing average business, only due to the uninspiring music, but Main Aurr Mrs Khanna was a commercial failure.[34] Khan's first release of 2010 was Anil Sharma's commercially and critically unsuccessful film Veer. His next release, Dabangg was released on Eid, 10 September 2010.Khan played the role of a fearless cop with comic effect in the film.It opened to generally positive reviews and broke several boxoffice records upon release. The film set another box office record, grossing 80.87 crore in its first week, thus becoming the highest opening week grossing Bollywood film, overtaking the previous record of 3 Idiots. Dabangg went on to gross 215 crore worldwide and Box office India declared it an all-time blockbuster in the second week of its release. It is the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2010 and, as of 2012, the fourth highestgrossing Bollywood film of all time.[35] Dabangg went on to win several awards, including the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. It was later remade in Tamil and Telugu, The film was produced by his brother Arbaaz Khan, and released on 10 September 2010. It made a record opening at the box

office[36] and Box Office India declared it an all-time blockbuster.[37] Dabangg at that time was the second and now the fourh highest-grossing Bollywood film and for his performance, Khan received a Star Screen Award for Best Actor and a Stardust Award for Star of the Year Male and was nominated for his sixth Filmfare Award for Best Actor. Anupama Chopra from NDTV wrote about his performance, "It's the role of a lifetime and Salman Khan bites into it like a starving man devours a feast. He inhabits it fully, strutting and swaggering and even, spoofing himself."[38] Khan's first release of 2011 was Ready.Upon release, Ready became the second highest opening day grosser, as well as the second highest weekend grossing Bollywood film at that time, after Dabangg, another Salman Khan-starrer. It also held records for being the second highest grossing Bollywood film of 2011.[39][40] He next appeared in Bodyguard,a remake of the 2010 Malayalam film of the same name.The film was not well received by critics, though became a financial success, with a domestic total of 1,409.5 million (US$26 million)India's highest-earning film of the year.[41]

Salman Khan with Katrina Kaif at the launch of Ek Tha Tiger's first song 'Mashallah'. 2012 was a prolific year for Khan.His first release of 2012 was Ek Tha Tiger where Khan starred opposite Katrina Kaif and act as Indian Spy.The film garnered positive to mixed reactions from critics[42] whilst opening to extremely strong box office collections.[43] The film went on to break the opening boxofice record with a collection of 31.23 crore (US$5.7 million)[44] and became the second Bollywood film to gross over 300 crore (US$55

million) worldwide behind only 3 Idiots with an eventual gross of 310 crore (US$57 million).[45] It marks his first association with Yash Raj Films.[46] The film also broke the record of Opening weekend net gross (First 3 Days of Release),[47] Opening week net gross (First 7 Days of Release) and entered 100 crore club the fastest in just 5 days of release breaking Salman Khan's own record set by Bodyguard in 7 Days.[48] Salman Khan's 2nd release of 2012 is Dabangg 2 which is a sequel of his blockbuster Dabangg under production of Arbaaz Khan.Upon release,the film netted an excellent 19.21 crore (US$3.5 million) on its opening day and became the biggest opener for a non-holiday Friday in India, beating the previous record held by Don 2.[49] and collected 58.26 crore (US$11 million), beating the previous threeday record set by Ek Tha Tiger.[50][51] Dabangg 2 eventually emerged as a huge financial success with revenues of 250 crore (US$46 million) globally.