Salim Khan who turn 83-years-old today. Salim Khan is an Indian actor and screenwriter. In Hindi cinema, Khan is best known for being one half of the prolific screenwriting duo of Salim-Javed. He is the father of three Bollywood actors Salman Khan, Sohail Khan and Arbaaz Khan, and film producer Alvira Khan Agnihotri. He is married to Sushila Charak also known as Salma Khan and to actress Helen. Salim Khan is married to two ladies concurrently. His first marriage was to Sushila Charak, a Hindu Rajput, on 18 November 1964. Sushila's father, Baldev Singh Charak, was a Hindu Dogra Rajput from Jammu, while her mother was a Maharashtrian Hindu lady. Khan and Sushila/Salma have four children together; three sons, Salman, Arbaaz and Sohail, and one daughter, Alvira Khan Agnihotri. In 1981, Khan married actress Helen Richardson, a Christian lady whose father was Anglo Indian and mother was Burmese. Some years later, they adopted a girl named Arpita, daughter of a homeless woman who died on a Mumbai footpath.

Khan's eldest son, Salman Khan, is one of the most commercially successful actors of Indian cinema. His other two sons, Arbaaz and Sohail, are also actors and film producers. His elder daughter Alvira is married to former actor and film-maker Atul Agnihotri, while his younger daughter Arpita is married to Aayush Sharma, grandson of Sukh Ram, a former Minister of Himachal Pradesh and long-time member of the Congress party.

Over the next decade, he acted in what he calls “indifferent roles," playing minor characters in about two dozen films, but so minor were his appearances that his name does not appear on the credits of several of these films; his credits amount to a total of 14 films till 1970, and one final appearance in 1977. These included Teesri Manzil (1966), Sarhaadi Lootera (1966) and Diwaana (1967). His most substantial role, for which he did receive some notice, was in Teesri Manzil (1966), where his role as the hero's friend was a meaty one, and his entry scene got a very good build-up.