Khan started his vocation with appearances in a few TV arrangement in the late 1980s. He influenced his Bollywood to make a big appearance in 1992 with Deewana. At a very early stage in his vocation, Khan was perceived for depicting abhorrent parts in the movies Darr (1993), Baazigar (1993) and Anjaam (1994). He at that point rose to unmistakable quality subsequent to featuring in a progression of sentimental movies, including Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Mohabbatein (2000) and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001). He earned basic recognition for his depiction of a drunkard in Devdas (2002), a NASA researcher in Swades (2004), a hockey mentor in Chak De! India (2007) and a man with Asperger disorder in My Name Is Khan (2010). His most elevated netting films incorporate the comedies Chennai Express (2013) and Happy New Year (2014). A considerable lot of his movies show subjects of Indian national personality and associations with diaspora groups, or sexual orientation, racial, social and religious contrasts and grievances. For his commitments to film, the Government of India respected him with the Padma Shri, and the Government of France granted him both the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Légion d'honneur.

Starting at 2015, Khan is co-director of the movie generation organization Red Chillies Entertainment and its auxiliaries, and is the co-proprietor of the Indian Premier League cricket group Kolkata Knight Riders. He is a successive TV moderator and stage indicate entertainer. The media frequently mark him as "Brand SRK" as a result of his numerous support and business enterprise wanders. Khan's charitable undertakings have given social insurance and fiasco alleviation, and he was respected with UNESCO's Pyramide con Marni grant in 2011 for his help of youngsters' training. He frequently includes in postings of the most persuasive individuals in Indian culture, and in 2008, Newsweek named him one of their fifty most capable individuals in the world.As of August 2017, he is the eighth most generously compensated on-screen character on the planet, and the most generously compensated in India, as per Forbes.