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Aamir Hussain Khan (Urdu: عامر خان, Devanāgarī: आमिर ख़ान), born March 14, 1965, in Mumbai, India, is a prominent Bollywood actor. He rose to stardom by owning a film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988).

Career
Aamir was natural into the film-industry kin group. His father Tahir Hussain is a producer; his uncle Nasir Hussain was a director. He has acted around two or three films directed by his full cousin Mansoor Khan. Aamir's brother Faisal Khan has also acted inside films.

Aamir began his career as a baby-actor in the film Yaadon Ki Baraat (1973), when he was eight years old. He acted & wrote a screenplay for the film Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke (1993). He has besides done playback singing for himself in the successful film Ghulam (1998).

Aamir is known for his efforts to produce credible characters, like than upright swimming himself within film when film. He may attend low lengths to give the convincing portrayal -- including, these are said, swallowing heavy sequentially to play the sottish scene around Raja Hindustani (1996), even though he doesn't drink real world. His memorable characters include:

Amar, a inept plotter (Andaz Apna Apna) Aakash, a college Lothario (Dil Chahta Hai) Munna, wall street hard (Rangeela) Bhuvan, a village dreamer (Lagaan) ACP Rathod, the crusading officer, Sarfarosh Raghu Jetly, an genial news newsperson (Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin)

Aamir is besides known for working in just a single film at once, unusual in the Bollywood screenland, because he wants to give his better to every film. Depreciator say that his taste for perfection another time leads to clashes by having directors world health organization don't listen to his objections or even let him re-shoot the scene he thinks sub-par.

Aamir's supposed perfectionism seems to keep around paid off for Aamir's foremost raid film-production, Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. This film was the large pack-professional profits inside India & was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 2001.

Aamir's latest release is the film "The Rising" which has been made each inside English and in Hindi. He plays a role of Mangal Pandey, a sepoy in the army of the British East India Company and a leader of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (which a British known as the Indian Mutiny). A motiin picture freed on August 12, 2005 to packed theatres all across India.

Apart from either "Rang De Basanti" and "The Rising", he recently signed a motion-picture show Fanah sustaining director Kunal Kohli opposite Kajol.

Family life
Aamir went directly into films from either college & processed his foremost large hit swimming ... the college man. Publicizer tried to position him as a adolescent idol, each college girl's dream. Sequentially to run soh, it buried tons grounds to believe of his 1988 marriage to Reenthe Dattthe, world health organization (though non the agent actress & already married to him at that period) manufactured a brief appearance inside a song sequence inside his number 1 hit film, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. It was large news once a marriage was 1st revealed.

But, Aamir's popularity survived a revelation, & his marriage to Reena seemed to use at times survived as well. It experienced 2 tykes & led the quietly, publicity-shunning personal life. Reena was possibly included, briefly, inside Aamir's career once she worked as a producer for Lagaan. It was the large surprise to the film-running public once Aamir Khan & Reena divorced within 2003. Aamir has since been linked romantically to many women, however is however lone.

Filmography

The Mahabharata (2006) (announced) Mr. Mehta & Mrs. Singh (2006) (pre-production) Fanaa (2006) (filming) Rang De Basanti (2005) (filming) The Rising (2005) ... Mangal Pandey Dil Chahta Hai (2001) ... Akash Malhotra Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) ... Bhuvan (Filmfare Best Actor Award) Mela (2000) ... Kishan Pyare Mann (1999) ... Karan Dev Singh Sarfarosh (1999) ... Ajay Singh Rathod Earth (1998) ... Dil Navaz, a Ice Confect Man Ghulam (1998) ... Siddharth Marathe Ishq (1997) ... Raja Raja Hindustani (1996) ... Raja Hindustani (Filmfare Best Actor Award) Akele Hum Akele Tum (1995) ... Rohit Rangeela (1995) ... Munna Aatank Hi Aatank (1995) ... Rohan Baazi (1995) ... Inspector Amar Damjee Andaz Apna Apna (1994) ... Amar Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke (1993) ... Rahul Malhotra Parampara (1993) ... Ranbir Singh Isi Ka Naam Zindagi (1992) ... Chotu Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992) ... Sanjaylal Verma Daulat Ki Jung (1991) ... Rajesh Chaudhry Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (1991) ... Raghu Jetley Afsana Pyaar Ka (1991) ... Raj Jawani Zindabad (1990) ... Shashi Deewana Mujh Sa Nahin (1990) ... Ajay Sharma Dil (1990) ... Raja Tum Mere Ho (1990) ... Shiva Awwal Number (1990) ... Sunny Love Love Love (1989) Raakh (1989) ... Aamir Hussein Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) ... Raj Holi (1984) ... Madan Sharma Madhosh (1974) ... Tyke artist Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973) ... Little one artist

Picture Gallery of Aamir Khan
Thumbnail gallery of Aamir's pictures.

Aamir Khan Pictures
Picture Gallery of the actor.

Dialindia: Aamir Khan
Picture Gallery of the actor.

the-south-asian.com: Aamir Khan - Lagaan
Interview about the making of the film, and the trials and tribulations of running his own production company.


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