

Khan introduced Slumdog Millionaire, a movie he had previously turned down, along with a star from the film, Freida Pinto. While on one shoot in Los Angeles, along with his wife Gauriand director Karan Johar, he took a break from filming to attend the 66th Golden Globe Awards, held in Los Angeles, on 11 January 2009, where he was introduced as the King of Bollywood. Filming commenced in December 2008 in Los Angeles and ended in October 2009. Khan's next film was My Name Is Khan, his fourth collaboration with director Karan Johar and the sixth movie in which he is paired with Kajol. The performance itself is, like the best in the business, played well enough to come across as effortless, as non-acting." He's cool and flippant, but sincere enough to appeal to the junta. In that same year's retrospective review by Rediff, Raja Sen stated, "Khan gives a fabulous performance, redefining the Lover for the 1990s with great panache. In 2005, Indiatimes Movies ranked the movie amongst the 25 Must See Bollywood Films, citing it as a "trendsetter of sorts".

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge won ten Filmfare Awards, and Khan's performance as a young NRI who falls for Kajol's character while on a college vacation, won him his second Best Actor Award. By then the movie had grossed over 12 billion rupees, making it one of India's biggest movie blockbusters.

In 2007, it entered its twelfth year in Mumbai cinemas. A major critical and commercial success, the movie became the year's top-grossing production in India. He followed it with Aditya Chopra's directorial debut, the romance Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. The film, which dealt with reincarnation, became the second-highest grossing film of the year. His first release was Rakesh Roshan's Karan Arjun. In 1995, Khan starred in the two biggest hits of the year in India. Though the movie was not a box office success, Khan's performance earned him the Filmfare Best Villain Award. In 1994, Khan once again played an obsessive lover/psycho's role in Anjaam, co-starring alongside Madhuri Dixit. Khan maintains that this is his all-time favourite among the movies he has acted in. In that same year, Khan played the role of a young musician in Kundan Shah's Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, a performance that earned him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance. His performance won him his first Filmfare Best Actor Award. Baazigar, which saw Khan portraying an ambiguous avenger who murders his girlfriend, shocked its Indian audience with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula. In Khan's entry in Encyclopedia Britannica's "Encyclopedia of Hindi Cinema" it was stated that "he defied the image of the conventional hero in both these films and created his own version of the revisionist hero." Darr marked his first collaboration with renowned film-maker Yash Chopra and his banner Yash Raj Films, the largest production company in Bollywood. In 1993, Khan won acclaim for his performances in villainous roles as an obsessive lover and a murderer, respectively, in the box office hits, Darr and Baazigar.
