Happy birthday Shah Rukh Khan as he turns 57 today: TOP SRK controversies!

Megastar Shah Rukh Khan celebrates his 57th birthday today and like his every year ritual, an ocean of fan following thronged Mannat to wish their favourite star. SRK, waved at his fans from his residence's balcony with young son AbRam Khan accompanying him. SRK made his debut with Deewana and ever since there has been no looking back. Birthday boy Shah Rukh Khan has been loved by the audiences globally who are eagerly waiting for his three big releases - Pathaan, Jawan and Dunki in the coming year. However, living in the limelight is not always easy as controversies come handy.  Scrolling through some of his some major controversies which made headlines over the years - Take a look: 

October 3, 2021, the day that turned into a nightmare for the Khans, as Shah Rukh Khan's elder son Aryan Khan was held by the NCB in connection with a drug case which gathered a lot of controversies. During that time, the actor stood up and fought for his family. Sleepless nights, mobbed by the media and whatnot, a father had to go through for the sake of his son. After fighting the legal battle for approximately a month Aryan Khan was granted bail by the Mumbai High Court on October 28, 2021.

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As per reports, Shah Rukh Khan had a massive fallout with actor Salman Khan at actor Katrina Kaif`s birthday in 2008 after which both the celebs were not on talking terms but with time both the actor`s got their issues resolved and were seen sharing the screen space in `Tubelight` in the year 2017 for the first time after their fight. Salman even visited Shah Rukh Khan`s residence during Aryan Khan`s arrest.

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When on the subject of 'My Name is Khan', how can we not remember the three occasions when SRK, not unlike the son of the film's protagonist who gets killed because of his Muslim surname, was held back for questioning by immigration officials in US airports.

It happened for the first time in 2008 at Newark's Liberty International Airport, then in New York City in 2012, and finally in Los Angeles in 2016. Of course, Shah Rukh was let off with profuse apologies on each occasion, but, as he tweeted in 2016, "to be detained at US immigration every damn time really really sucks". Apparently, a namesake of the superstar was on the lookout list of the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service.

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Even before the IPL took off, SRK got into the crosshairs of the Shiv Sena in 2010, when he said he found it "humiliating" that there was pressure on him to not bid for Pakistani cricketers for the Kolkata Knight Riders. The Pakistanis, he said, were the best T20 players in the world.

It provoked the late Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena supremo and father of former Maharashtra Chief Minister, Uddhav Thackeray, to threaten to prevent the screening of his just-released film, 'My Name is Khan'. The Bollywood fraternity jumped to SRK's defence and evetually the controversy died down. 

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In 2012, after Kolkata Knight Riders beat Chennai Super Kings in the IPL final, an allegedly drunk SRK got into a scuffle in full public view with a security guard at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. In his defence, the superstar said the guard had stopped Suhana from joining the celebrations on the ground, but then he aggravated matters by verbally abusing the guard and officials of the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA), in full view of the television cameras around him.

A social media influencer promptly demanded that Shah Rukh be booked under the Juvenile Justice Act for using abusive language in the presence of children. The Mumbai Police filed an FIR and MCA banned his entry into the stadium, but after six years, the cops found no substance in the charges against SRK.

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In an incident reported by Anupama Chopra in her book on SRK and which he himself later recounted in his interview with David Letterman, the then fledgling actor was upset that the journalist had written about an intimate scene involving Deepa Sahi and him for Ketan Mehta's acclaimed film 'Maya Membsaab'. Sahi, incidentally, is Mehta's wife.

"I'm gonna take off your clothes and make you stand naked with me. Would you find that funny?" SRK, in his Letterman interview, recalled having said to the journalist and then going on to create a scene, which ended up in his arrest. Seeing the state of the lockup inside the Bandra police station, Shah Rukh made peace with both the journalist and the cops.

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In 1992 when he was just another new face with starry aspirations in Mumbai, that year, Shah Rukh Khan picked up a fight with a film journalist and got arrested for causing disorder in the office of the magazine that employed the target of his fury. 

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