Shah Rukh Khan voted as India’s most popular father

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has added one more feather up his cap. The Badshah has been voted India’s most popular father. It so happens that Father’s day will be celebrated this Sunday. Ahead of Father’s Day, US President Barack Obama and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan have emerged as the most admired dads in a new survey. The online survey was conducted by Matrimony website Shaadi.com, with over 5,500 respondents to find out who the most popular father is.

Rh online survey had Indian women being asked about the country’s most popular father, SRK, who has three children, got the lion’s share of votes, while Obama topped the charts when the ladies were asked about famous fathers of other nationalities. Interestingly, 42.5 percent of the women surveyed voted for Shah Rukh Khan as ‘India’s Most Popular Father’, followed by master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who got 36.9 percent votes and then Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who received 20.6 percent votes.

The respondents were also asked to choose ‘India’s Most Admired Father-Daughter Relationship’. As many as 43.2 percent of them voted for the camaraderie that Shah Rukh Khan shares with his daughter Suhana. The duo was closely followed by Mahesh Bhatt and Alia Bhatt (27.3 percent), Prakash Padukone and Deepika Padukone (17.2 percent) and Anil Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor (12.3 percent).

When it came to the ‘Most Admired Father-Son Relationship’, 33.4 percent Indian women voted for Rishi Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor, followed by Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan (31.2 percent), Shah Rukh and Aryan (23.3 percent), and Sunil Gavaskar and Rohan Gavaskar (12.1 percent).

Well looks like people do admire those celebrities that spend quality time with their children.