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Flixster members are collaborating to create the definitive resource for Salman Khan information on the Internet. We're adding all the images, info, and ideas that best tell this actor's unique story. To add your knowledge of Salman Khan, just log in and click the EasyEdit button at the top of the wiki pages. (Click here for help.) |  Salman Khan mini-bio: Often known as Bollywood's Bad boy, his knack of walking into trouble has overshadowed people's perception of him as an actor. He may have been featured as the bad guy of the industry several times over. But many-a-common-man claims that this macho hunk has a heart made of pure gold. Salman Khan is the eldest son of the legendary writer Salim Khan, who penned many super-hits in the yesteryear's like Sholay, Deewar, and Don. He has two brothers, Sohail Khan and Arbaaz Khan. Both of them are actors; Sohail is also a film director and a producer. Salman started his acting carrier in 1988 by doing a supporting role in the movie "Biwi Ho To Aisi". The following year he came up with his leading role in the box office romantic hit Maine Pyar Kiya (1989). From there he became the heart throb of Indian cinema. Hehad his first commercial success with the blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya(1989), and won a Filmfare Best Male Debut Awardfor his performance. He went on to star in some of Bollywood's most successful films, such as Saajan(1991), Hum Aapke Hain Kaun(1994), Karan Arjun(1995), Biwi No.1(1999), having appeared in the highest earning films of five separate years during his career.In 1999, Khan won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Awardfor his extended appearance in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai(1998), and since then has starred in several critical and commercial successes, including Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam(1999), Tere Naam(2003), No Entry(2005) Partner(2007) and Wanted(2009). Khan has thus established himself as one of the most prominent leading actors of Hindi cinema.
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