Mumbai, July 26: Entertainment Editor Rajeev Masand, actor Imran Khan speaks about his new film Luck, being compared to Aamir Khan and his friends in the industry.
Rajeev Masand: It’s been a little over a year since your debut film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, what is the one thing you know now that you didn’t know then?
Imran Khan: I know what to take more seriously. At that point I would take everything to heart, weather it is one comment or one article. I would take everything to heart. But it’s all water off a duck’s back; I now know what to take seriously.
Rajeev Masand: What is the one misconception about yourself that is stuck?
Imran Khan: There are many things like people like to compare me to Aamir a lot, whether about him being a perfectionist or choosy about his films. In the 12 months that I’ve been in the industry I’ve had three releases. Ranbir (Ranbir Kapoor) has been longer in the industry than me and has had fewer releases than me. Neil (Neil Nitin Mukesh) has been longer in the industry longer than Ranbir and has had has as many releases as me. So I don’t know how the idea of me being choosy came about.
Rajeev Masand: People have said Imran is very much like Aamir, opinionated and controlling, but he is not yet Aamir?
Imran Khan: Yes, well I guess I’m not nearly as successful or famous like him. But it’s the people who like to say, ‘you are not yet Aamir Khan, so you cannot have so many thoughts and ideas’. But I still have ideas.
Rajeev Masand: You are not afraid of expressing your thoughts?
Imran Khan: The thing about making a film is that it is a collaborative process. Everyone has some kind of a creative input. The director alone does not run the show; every department has its own creative input. There are directors who are megalomaniacs who like to control everything and it may work for them but I cannot work with a person like that.
Rajeev Masand: You have been accused of stepping into the roles of a director and scriptwriter?
Imran Khan: You are right. That has basis, which isn’t true. That whole thing came up when people were talking about 7 days in Paris a lot. It is a standard process, a director brings you a script and you give him feedback on it. Every actor does that. It was a process which took place with 7 days in Paris as well, now if you want you can turn that into merely writing a script.
It’s a process that has happened on every film that I’ve been on. I tell the director this what I like and don’t like. It is the same way that a director would give me feedback on my take. Like I can’t expect a director to accept whatever I’m giving him, he will give his feedback, similarly, I would give my feedback too. And ultimately it drives you to make a better product.
–Agencies