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* ''[[Mr. Mehta & Mrs. Singh]]'' ([[2006]]) ... Mr. Mehta (Aamir out of the movie)
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* ''[[The Rising (Indian movie)|The Rising]]'' ([[2005]]) ... Mangal Pandey
* ''[[The Rising (Indian movie)|The Rising]]'' ([[2005]]) ... Mangal Pandey
* ''[[Dil Chahta Hai]]'' ([[2001]]) ... Akash Malhotra (Nominated, [[Filmfare Best Actor Award]])
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This article discusses Aamir Khan, an actor. See also the disambiguation page for Amir Khan.
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Aamir Khan

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 with the film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988).

Career

Aamir was born into a film-industry clan. His father Tahir Hussain is a producer; his uncle Nasir Hussain was a director. He has acted in a few films directed by his cousin Mansoor Khan. Aamir's brother Faisal Khan has also acted in films.

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

Aamir is known for his efforts to create believable characters, rather than just playing himself in film after film. He will go to great lengths to give a convincing portrayal -- including, it is said, drinking heavily in order to play a drunken scene in Raja Hindustani (1996), even though he doesn't drink in real life. His memorable characters include:

Aamir is also known for working on only one film at a time, unusual in the Bollywood film industry, because he wants to give his best to each film. Detractors say that his penchant for perfection sometimes leads to clashes with directors who don't listen to his objections or let him re-shoot a scene he thinks sub-par.

Aamir's reputed perfectionism seems to have paid off for Aamir's first foray into film-production, Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. This film was a big box-office success in India and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 2001.

Aamir's latest release is the The Rising which has been made both in English and in Hindi. He plays the 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 the British called the Indian Mutiny). The movie released on August 12, 2005. It has done fairly well at the box office, but has not equalled the success of Lagaan.

Apart from "Rang De Basanti" and "The Rising", he recently signed a movie Fanaah with director Kunal Kohli opposite Kajol.

Family life

Aamir went directly into films from college and made his first big hit playing ... a college boy. Publicists tried to position him as a teen idol, every college girl's dream. In order to do so, they buried all evidence of his 1988 marriage to Reena Datta, who (though not a professional actress and already married to him at that time) made a brief appearance in a song sequence in his first hit film, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. It was big news when the marriage was first revealed.

However, Aamir's popularity survived the revelation, and his marriage to Reena seemed to have survived too. They had two children (son Junaid and daughter Aaira) and led a quiet, publicity-shunning family life. Reena was even involved, briefly, in Aamir's career when she worked as a producer for Lagaan. It was a big surprise to the film-going public when Aamir Khan and Reena divorced in 2003. Aamir was later linked romantically to Kiran Rao, an assistant to director Ashutosh Gowariker. The two wed on December 28, 2005.

Awards

Aamir Khan has won three Filmfare awards so far:-

He has been nominated seven times for Best Actor and has won twice.

His other achievements include: one IIFA Award, one Screen Award, two Zee Cine Awards, and a National Award.

Filmography

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