My movies should be a win-win for everyone: Aamir Khan

NEW DEHLI: Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has cemented himself as one of the biggest stars of the Hindi film industry. The actor is going through the best phase of his career and has had back-to-back hits with Ghajini achieving ‘Blockbuster’ status and 3 Idiots receiving the ‘Super Blockbuster’ status.

Khan’s last three films have raked in big money, proving that one doesn’t need massive budgets to make a blockbuster and the ideology behind it is simple - he wants everyone associated with the movie to make money.

“It has to be win-win for everyone. My sense would be, as a creative person I would like to take that responsibility to make sure that the film is not top heavy and everyone earns,” Aamir told NDTV in an interview.

“That’s a policy I have followed all along is that when I do business with someone, so whether it’s a distributor or whether I am an actor or it’s the producer I am concerned with, whoever I deal with ... should make money when they deal with me,” he said. Aamir, 45, is a filmmaker and has invested wisely in movies like Lagaan, Taare Zameen Par and Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. All of them went on to become hits at the box office.

As an actor, his last three releases (Taare Zameen Par, Ghajini and 3 Idiots) have made quite a bit of cash at the box-office with Ghajini being sold at INR600 million.

“I got very nervous when Ghajini was sold at a very high price because I feel that we shouldn’t go ... this race is mad. I am basically a very middle class kind of person and I feel that so much money is at stake and people are going to lose money,” said Khan. “I feel very stressed about that and I feel that there is no need to do that. When a film is good the upside will come to you,” he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 9^th, 2010.