At the Wankhede Stadium last year, his fight with a security guard during the IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians led to the BCCI imposing a 5-year ban on him, forbidding his entry to the stadium. He was initially threatened with a life ban, but the managing committee reduced it to only five years.

The chain-smoking actor got rapped on the knuckles when he was caught smoking on tape at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur. The incident occurred during the IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders in April last year.

The star has always been touchy about treatment meted to him by authorities. He was detained for an hour on arrival at the New York Airport in 2012. He was invited to give a lecture at the elite Yale University. A similar detention in Newark Airport in 2009 had Indian authorities and his fans up in arms for this 'demeaning' treatment of the superstar.

Back home, SRK irked Bal Thackeray and the Shiv Sena party in 2010 when he expressed his support for Pakistani players joining the IPL tournament.Supporters of the party went on a rampage, attacking movie halls screening his film, 'My Name is Khan' in 2010. That didn't stop the movie from raking in the moolah at the box office.

The actor has been part of a number of notorious off screen brawls. The latest was slapping BFF Farah Khan's husband Shirish Kunder at a party. His fight with Salman Khan during Katrina Kaif's birthday in 2008 divided the industry unofficially into two camps. While Shirish and Shah Rukh patched up, the Khans look unlikely to do the same anytime soon.