Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan talks of his family being against his entering films, how he has no plans to shake ‘King Khan’ from his pedestal, visiting cinema halls to catch audience reaction and more. Below is the transcript of the interview on CNN’s Talk Asia.
Your most recent film Ghajini is now the biggest Bollywood success ever. Did you have any idea that it would be quite as huge as it is?
Aamir Khan (AK): You can hope that, you can hope that for all of your films. But you can never …

Aamir Khan, the Perfectionist, is unpredictable. If we are to look back at his last few films, well, he switched from Lagaan to Dil Chahta Hai to Mangal Pandey: The Rising to Rang De Basanti to Fanaa to Taare Zameen Par and finally to Ghajini. All these films belong to different genres. Now, the talks are doing the rounds that the actor is making a film based on the problems of the farmers.
It is said that Aamir is producing a film on the plight of the farmers in Bhopal. Anusha …

Mumbai: It’s birthday of super ‘bubbly’ Preity Zinta. Preity Zinta made her acting debut in ‘Dil Se’ in 1998 followed by a role in ‘Soldier’ the same year.
These performances earned her a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award, and she was later recognised for her role as a teenage single mother in Kya Kehna.
Preity Zinta shook the entire cinegoer crowd with her on-screen question rendition of ‘Are you a virgin?’ to none other than the ‘Baadshah’ of Bollywood…Shahrukh Khan, no less!
What followed after ‘Dil Se’ were films that were no less …

Farhan Akhtar must be blessed as he has got an opportunity to show case his talent in a film, LUCKY BY CHANCE, which again has an urban setting, and is coming in the wake of the awards that have been conferred on him in the recently concluded Screen Awards. The memory of his presence is still fresh in the minds of the audience on account of the serial that he is anchoring on NDTV Imagine, and in which he has featured the stars with whom he has worked either as …

Karachi rocked with Sushmita Sen, Saif Ali Khan and Malaika Arora who flew in exclusively to perform here.
With the latest wave of cultural exchange between India and Pakistan a number of Indian actors have flown in to Karachi and Lahore, either to perform or to promote their films, and of course the message of peace.
Sushmita, Saif and Malaika were least expected because unlike Akshay Kumar, Urmila and Pooja Bhatt, they hadn’t been expressing their desire to come to this side of the divide. So when they got here, they were …

Although Farhan Akhtar had scripted his debut film DIL CHAHTA HAI, his next film – LAKSHYA – won’t be scripted by the talented director, but by his father, writer Javed Akhtar. The reason? “That’s because the idea is dad’s,” Zoya Akhtar, Farhan’s sister, reveals, “When dad bounced off the idea of LAKSHYA to Farhan, he liked it immensely and that’s how dad decided to pen the script.”
Meanwhile, LAKSHYA is all set to roll in April with non-stop shooting. The final cast is Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Sushant Singh …

Karishma and Kareena Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Shushmita Sen, Sanjay Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Rishi Kapoor and Neeto Singh, Yash Chopra, Rakesh Roshan, Mahesh and Pooja Bhatt are just some of the Bollywood giants who have been invited by their Lollywood counterparts to spend this Basant in the city.
Most of these actors already have a Pakistani visa and others were in the process of getting one, said film director and writer Asif Ali Pota. He said the proposed programme includes a night at the Lahore Fort, which will be recorded by Prime …

Mukta Arts as a pioneer once again in innovative techniques decided to release the music of its forthcoming film ‘Ek Aur Ek Gyarah’ in a unique way by donating 11000 sets of stationary to students from various schools in Mumbai.
Showcasing their support towards the noble cause and marking the release of the film’s music, the leading stars of ‘Ek aur Ek Gyarah’, Sanjay Dutt and Govinda along with Producer Subhash Ghai, Director David Dhawan and CMD - Super Cassettes Industries Bhushan Kumar and Director Super Cassettes Industries Krishan Kumar gave …