New Delhi: Shah Rukh Khan followed Salman Khan and Aamir Khan as the third Khan to gain fame in Bollywood. The actors have all been compared to one another on several occasions during the course of their careers, which have spanned more than three decades. In 1992, Shah Rukh Khan made his film debut with ‘Deewana’.
Shah Khan often had to explain how he was different from the other two Khans back when he started his career as an actor. Shah Rukh was asked about his decision to enter the industry after Salman and Aamir in a mid-90s interview with Lehren.
“Mr Salman Khan is easily the biggest star ever in terms of timespan. Mr Aamir Khan, I personally feel, is the finest actor in the country. Putting it politely, I have made my own positions. Some people very impolitely and stupidly, I feel, say I have displaced ABCD which I think is completely wrong. Everybody has their own style of acting and everybody is accepted not because they are copying others, or they’ve displaced others. [It’s not that] he’s better than Aamir or Salman, Ajay Devgn is better than him. This guy also has something, let him be, everyone is working at their own level,” Shah Rukh Khan said.
“The second thing is I have some acting talent. I have honed my technique. I can do a variety of roles. My face is not a regular sweet boy face or an action hero’s face. It is a mixture. I can get away with a role like Deewana, I can get away with a little comic [film] like in Chamatkar, I can get away with a romantic[film] like Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman,” he added.
Salman and Aamir Khan both come from Bollywood backgrounds and were raised in Mumbai. Shah Rukh, on the other hand, was raised in Delhi and had a theatre background. With the television shows ‘Fauji’ and ‘Cirkus’, he rose to fame.
The actor was last seen in the action flick ‘Pathaan’ along side Deepika Padukone and John Abraham. He is also said to have a cameo in the Salman-starrer ‘Tiger 3’.