Indian actor Aamir Khan first appeared on screen at the age of eight in a minor role in his uncle Nasir Hussain's film Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973).
[6] He went on to establish himself with roles in several lucrative films of the 1990s, including the romantic drama Dil (1990), the comedy-drama Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993), and the romance Raja Hindustani (1996).
[20][21] Khan played a man with anterograde amnesia in the 2008 thriller Ghajini,[22][23] after which he portrayed an engineering student in the comedy-drama 3 Idiots (2009),[24] and a reclusive artist in the drama Dhobi Ghat (2010), which he also produced.
[26] Further success came when Khan played the antagonist of the adventure film Dhoom 3 (2013) and starred as the titular alien in the ₹7.4 billion (US$86 million)-grossing satire PK (2014).
[31][30] Khan's two subsequent releases—the period adventure film Thugs of Hindostan (2018) and the Forrest Gump remake, Laal Singh Chaddha (2022)—emerged as box-office bombs.