SRK once had to change his name to Abhinav, know why

Mumbai: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan apart from being a successful actor is too a great family man. He loves his family more than anything else and is very loyal to his wife Gauri Khan. King Khan and Gauri Khan have been married for over 30 years now and they still teach others how to care for each other.

Both Gauri and SRK are lucky enough as they got married according to their own wish but do you know how many barriers they have crossed to make it happen? Yes, it is not everybody’s cup of tea to marry a girl from another caste with the consent of the girl’s parents. But, SRK and Gauri did it.

Recalling when her parents were not so keen on her decision to marry SRK, Gauri in an interview in 2008, said her parents were “obviously not for it.” She said, “We were so young and then we decided to get married and to a person who is going to join films, and being from a different religion,” she told Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla on their show First Ladies. Gauri Khan was only 21 years old at the time of marriage while Shah Rukh was 26 at the time.

Gauri also revealed how they changed Shah Rukh Khan’s name to Abhinav so that her parents could feel that he was Hindu. “We changed his name to Abhinav so they feel he is a Hindu boy but that was really silly and very childish,” she recalled.