List of Hindi Film Clans - The Khan Family (of Salim Khan)

The Khan Family (of Salim Khan)

Story and script writer Salim Khan has written and produced a majority of the successful movies all through the 1970s and 1980s era. Salim Khan was earlier a junior technician for various films had not made any considerable mark in the field. Realizing the lack of writers in the movie making industry, he gradually learnt about story telling and writing techniques used in films, along with close friend and then business associate Javed Akhtar and began writing short transcripts. Salim-Javed (as they are famously called) have scripted innumerable commercially and critically accepted movies for movie making giants like Nasir Hussain (Yaadon Ki Baraat), Yash Chopra (Deewar), Yash Johar (Dostana), Ramesh Sippy (Sholay), Shekhar Kapoor (Mr. India) and Farhan Akhtar (Don - The Chase Begins Again). The duo split up in the early 1980s and ended their 15 year professional relationship for unknown reasons. Salim Khan married his first wife Salma Khan and had four children with her; Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Sohail Khan and Alvira Khan. His marriage to Salma, however, did not last as Salim Khan married film star Helen thus making her, his second wife. The newlywed couple lived separately and adopted a girl child, Arpita Khan, while Khan's first wife, Salma, singlehandedly raised all the four kids. Salma Khan's eldest son, Salman, made his film debut at the age of twenty four with Maine Pyaar Kiya in the year 1989 and eventually went on to become one of the most successful actors in the history of Indian Cinema and is till date considered to be one, among the most influential people of the country, enjoying heavy commercial and critical success throughout his career. Salman Khan, however, for unknown reasons, has never collaborated with his (writer) father on any film project in his two decade old career. The entire Khan family currently lives with their eldest son Salman Khan, in Galaxy Apartments on Bandra Bandstand Mumbai.

• Salim Khan
• Salma Khan (Salim Khan's First Wife)
  • Salman Khan (Hindi Film Jr Artiste & Eldest Son Of Salim Khan and Salma Khan)
  • Arbaaz Khan (Director, Producer, Writer & Actor and Second Son Of Salim Khan and Salma Khan)
    • Malaika Arora Khan (Arbaaz Khan's Wife)
    • Amrita Arora (younger sister of Malaika actress and VJ)
  • Sohail Khan (Director, Producer, Writer & Actor and Third Son Of Salim Khan and Salma Khan)
    • Seema Khan (Sohail Khan's Wife)
  • Alvira Khan (Eldest Daughter of Salim Khan and Salma Khan)
  • Atul Agnihotri (Director, Producer & Writer and Alvira Khan's Husband)
• Helen (Salim Khan's Second Wife)
  • Arpita Khan (Adopted girl by Salim Khan and Helen)