Farah Khan's Bollywood Journey: From Start to Stardom

By Bollyy 09 Jan 2024 in Birthday Special

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Bollywood's famous choreographer, director, producer, and actor Farah Khan is celebrating her birthday today. Today she is celebrating her 59th birthday. Farah is known as the Dabangg Lady of Bollywood. Farah has choreographed many great songs. Farah has shown her choreography in more than 100 songs so far. The signature steps of many of Farah Khan's dancing numbers are so imprinted on the hearts and minds that whether the song is remembered or not, people remember the steps. Similarly, in his films too, people get a lot of spice, drama, and comedy, which the audience likes very much. So today on his birthday, let us tell you some special things related to him...

Farah Khan shares her birthday with her cousin Farhan Akhtar

- Farah Khan was born on 9 January 1965 in Mumbai. Farah Khan's mother's name is Maneka she is the sister of screenwriter Honey Irani. Her brother's name is Sajid Khan he is a famous film director. Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar are Farah's cousins. The special thing is that Farhan Akhtar's birthday also falls on January 9, which means Farhan and Farah share their birthday on the same day.

She learned dance on her own

- Farah studied Sociology at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She was greatly influenced by Michael Jackson and pursued dance as her career. She learned to dance on her own and formed a dance group. When choreographer Saroj Khan left the film 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar', Farah took her place. After this, she choreographed many songs.

Received the Filmfare Best Choreography Award 5 times

- She met Shahrukh Khan on the sets of 'Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na' and since then they have become good friends and started working together. She was nominated for the 2004 Tony Award for Best Choreographer for her work in Monsoon Wedding, Bombay Dreams, and Vanity Fair. She has also received the Filmfare Best Choreography Award 5 times.

Her first film as director

- Her first film as a director was 'Main Hoon Na' in which Shahrukh was the hero of the film. This film was a super hit at the box office. Her second film 'Om Shanti Om' earned the highest amount during its release and was highly appreciated in the country as well as abroad. The film 'Tees Maar Khan' directed by her flopped.

Farah debut as a lead actress

- Farah made her debut as a lead actress in films with the film 'Shirin Farhad Ki To Nikal Padi' in which her hero was Boman Irani. Her film 'Happy New Year' proved to be a big hit, was a film with a long star cast and once again the lead actor of the film was Shahrukh Khan. She also choreographed Kylie Minogue for the song 'Chiggy Wiggy' from the film 'Blue'.

Farah as a Host

- She hosted the celebrity chat show 'Tere Mere Beech Mein' and was also a judge on shows like Indian Idol Season 1 and Season 2, Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar, Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega, and Dance India Dance Li'l Masters. She also appeared as a judge in the show Just Dance aired on Star Plus along with Hrithik Roshan and Vaibhavi Merchant. She has also hosted Bigg Boss.

Farah personal life

- Farah's husband Shirish Kunder was an electronic engineer before coming to Bollywood and worked at Motorola company. After working in the company for four years, Shirish changed the industry and came to try his luck in Bollywood. Shirish worked as an editor in the film industry. Shirish's first meeting with Farah was on the sets of the film 'Main Hoon Na'.

- No one thought that both of them would ever get married, but suddenly one day Shirish proposed to Farah. At that time Farah was 32 and Shirish was 25. It took a long time for Farah to say yes to Shirish, but finally, they got married in the year 2004. After four years of marriage, Farah Khan gave birth to triplets.

Shirish was the reason for the rift between Shahrukh and Farah

- After marrying Farah Khan, Shirish also wrote the story of films like 'Tees Maar Khan and Joker', but both the films flopped at the box office. Because of Shirish, there was a rift in the relationship between Farah Khan and Shahrukh Khan. Both were famous in the industry as brother and sister, but Shirish had once tweeted something wrong about Shahrukh's film 'Raavan'. Due to this Shahrukh Khan became very angry with him.

- Once at Sanjay Dutt's party, Shahrukh slapped Shirish. Then Farah pacified both of them. Shirish Kunder is also often in the news for his objectionable tweets. He had made a tweet calling UP CM Yogi Adityanath a 'goonda'. For which an FIR was filed against him. Seeing the uproar, Shirish had deleted his tweet from Twitter.

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