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 had announced his intention to kick the butt, since he wrapped up Taare Zameen Par, but he hasn’t been successful yet.
The Ghajini stress took its toll and the perfectionist Khan found himself in the smoke trap again.
But now a source informs that Aamir has decided to take a three-month break for his son Junaid and he doesn’t want his habit to be a bad influence on his kids.
Junaid, who follows Aamir’s blog religiously, would show him excerpts and comments from fans who have criticised him for smoking, adds …

Mumbai: Aamir Khan may not look a day over 34 but the actor celebrated his 44th birthday on March 14 with media at his house in Bandra, Mumbai.
On this occasion Aamir who was recently declared as the most powerful man in the film industry by a leading film magazine reiterated that he was not in the numbers game.
“I have never bothered about numbers. I look for excellence and not success,” says Aamir.
The last year has been especially successful for Aamir. He made his debut as a successful director with Taare …

After pushing his physical limits to a new level in ‘Ghajini’, Aamir Khan seems to be in a mood to cool his heels for some time.
The actor, nowadays shooting Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots in Bangalore, is learnt to be thinking of taking a yearlong break to re-energize himself. He has been busy in work ever since he took the double responsibility of acting in and directing Taare Zameen Par two years back.
Ghajini followed and Aamir began his regular workouts to develop eight pack abs. At the same time his company …

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 …

Aamir Khan along with the entire star cast of Ghajini celebrated the second success party of the film on the occassion of the film crossing a total worldwide gross of Rs.200 crores. In a brief tete-a-tete Aamir revealed to us the success story of Ghajini.
What according to you are the reasons for Ghajini’s success?
The film did well across the country and also overseas. It had the potential to entertain the audience all over. People from different social backgrounds like the film and appreciated it. Marketing played a huge role in …

NEW DELHI: Actor Aamir Khan’s debut directorial venture Taare Zameen Par, a sensitive story of an eight-year-old dyslexic child, has failed to
make to the foreign language category for Oscars at the 81st annual Academy awards.
The film based was selected as India’s entry to the foreign language category for Oscars. Written by Amole Gupte, the film was released in 2007 and received critical and box-office acclaim.
Aamir Khan said ‘Taare Zameen Par’ is a film which is very special to him and all the audiences of Indian cinema.
“Well, I suppose the Academy …

Even before its release, the Aamir khan starrer ‘Ghajini’ has made history of sorts, recording the highest ever advance booking for any film in bollywood.
Turing out to be early cash Godzilla at the box office, Ghajini has zoomed ahead with a record – fifty percent advance booking, despite legal hiccups and its shre of controversies.
The advance booking, in terms of money generated, is four times more than any other film in celluloid history. ‘Ghajini’ has recorded an advance booking of fifty percent for the weekend across all multiplexes. It …

There have been pretty serious accusations against one of the best films of year and India’s entry to the Oscars –’Taare Zameen Par’.
Sad and surprising but true.
The 69 year old veteran writer Shakuntala Devi who has authored 22 books says that a lot of the content in ‘Taare Zameen Par’ has been copied from one her books titled ‘In the Wonderland Of Numbers’.
Reportedly the book’s main character is a nine year old girl suffering from dyslexia.
According to her it’s not just the idea of a kid suffering from the dyslexia …

Aamir Khan was reportedly at loggerheads with Amitabh Bachchan thanks to criticism in his blog about Big B’s film Black and his acting in it. This was at the time when Aamir’s directorial debut Taare Zameen Par was about to be released. Much was later written in the media about each other’s comments to each other.
But then all mouths got shut when Amitabh Bachchan made an appearance at Aamir’s production Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na premiere at PVR Multiplex in Goregaon, Mumbai. He not only congratulated Aamir’s nephew Imran Khan …