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Salman Khan

Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan is an Indian film actor, producer, and television personality who has had a film career spanning over thirty years. He has received numerous awards, including two National Film Awards as a film producer. Khan also hosts the reality show Bigg Boss and is known for his charity, the Being Human Foundation, which provides education and healthcare to the underprivileged in India. However, Khan's personal life has been marred by legal troubles, including a 2015 conviction for culpable homicide and a 2018 conviction for blackbuck poaching.

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Salman Khan

Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan is an Indian film actor, producer, and television personality who has had a film career spanning over thirty years. He has received numerous awards, including two National Film Awards as a film producer. Khan also hosts the reality show Bigg Boss and is known for his charity, the Being Human Foundation, which provides education and healthcare to the underprivileged in India. However, Khan's personal life has been marred by legal troubles, including a 2015 conviction for culpable homicide and a 2018 conviction for blackbuck poaching.

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Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan 27 December 1965 is

an Indian film actor, producer, occasional singer and


television personality. In a film career spanning over
thirty years, Khan has received numerous awards,
including two National Film Awards as a film producer,
and two Filmfare Awards for acting.He has a significant
following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide,] and
is cited in the media as one of the most commercially
successful actors of both world and Indian cinema.
According to the Forbes 2018 list of Top-Paid 100
Celebrity Entertainers in world, Khan was the highest
ranked Indian with 82nd rank with earnings of $37.7
million. He is also known as the host of the reality show,
Bigg Boss since 2010.
In addition to his acting career, Khan is a television
presenter and promotes humanitarian causes through his
charity, Being Human Foundation. Khan's off-screen life is
marred by controversy and legal troubles. In 2015 he was
convicted of culpable homicide for a negligent driving
case in which he ran over five people with his car, killing
one, but his conviction was set aside on appeal.On 5 April
2018, Khan was convicted in a blackbuck poaching case
and sentenced to five years imprisonment. He is currently
out on bail while an appeal is being heard.The Being
Human Foundation is a Mumbai-based charity, founded
by Bollywood star Salman Khan in 2007, that provides
education and healthcare services for the underprivileged
in India. The organization is primarily funded by sales of
Being Human-branded merchandise, which amounted to
sales of Rs 2460 crore till 2018 August.
The foundation performs many charitable activities. It
funds the education of 200 children at the Akshara High
School in Mumbai and another 300 through Aseema, a
Mumbai-based non-profit. The foundation supports the
VEER Initiative, a program to train differently-abled
people. As of December 2015, the program has trained
1909 individuals, 1194 of whom have gained
employment. The organization has set up programs to
improve basic skills for students and career development
centers.
Being Human has provided funding to treat children with
congenital heart defects and craniofacial deformities. It
has provided drought relief in Maharashtra and blankets
for flood victims in Kashmir, conducted free eye camps to
provide cataract surgeries, and helped conduct bone-
marrow donor registration camps in Mumbai.
In 2018, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
threatened to blacklist the foundation for failing to set up
dialysis machines in Bandra. The project was a public-
private partnership where the municipal government
would provide the space while the foundation was to
maintain and staff the low-cost dialysis facility. The
foundation's representative denied that the organization
signed any formal contract with the civic body.

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