Gauri Khan - Career

Career

In 2002, together with Shahrukh Khan, Gauri founded the motion picture production and distribution company, Red Chillies Entertainment where she serves as the main producer. She became producer of Farah Khan's directorial debut, Main Hoon Na which launched her career as a director in Bollywood. The film did well at the box office, becoming the second highest grossing film of the year. Since then she has produced seven films for the company including some of the projects in which her husband is the main actor. She also made a guest appearance in Om Shanti Om (2007).

She used to host a weekly Hindi music countdown show, Oye, for a music channel in the 1990s. She is also the face of the fashion line, Aftershock. Khan first expressed interest in interior design as hobby while doing up her Bandra bungalow, Mannat. However in 2010, she professionally ventured into interior designing in partnership with Sussanne Roshan to design exclusive interiors projects together. The same year, they collaborated on their first commercial project together in Vadodara of a massive 60 thousand sq ft private home.

In 2012, Khan launched her own line of furniture in partnership with Roshan's home store in Mumbai – The Charcoal Project. In an interview with Vogue magazine she stated that she choose interior design because of her interest in art, she explained: “I started off as an artist in school with various sketches. I continued that as a hobby for many years, and I think that is where my designs come from.