When SRK was paid just Rs 50

The superstar earned his first pay by working as an usher at a concert

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He maybe a superstar now but the first ever pay that Shah Rukh Khan received was a mere Rs 50 for working as an usher at a concert by ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas. The 44-year-old actor used the money to visit Taj Mahal. "Asked so telling. i earned my first salary ushering for a pankaj udhas concert in delhi Rs.50. took a train & saw Taj Mahal with the money (sic)," Shah Rukh tweeted today.

Shah Rukh got his big break in 1988 with the television series Fauji, where he played the role of Commando Abhimanyu Rai. His first Bollywood film was Deewana in 1992. Shah Rukh is currently working on his upcoming film Ra.One, where he will play a superhero for the first time in his career. "Red chillies v/fx & jeff from america. also a few other studios involved to complete work on ra.one. its quite a task for an indian film,(sic)," Khan wrote in a post on the micro-blogging website Twitter