“What I like is, it’s a young urban story, but at heart it has a classical romantic element to it,” said Khan.
Break Ke Baad is one of the rare Bollywood films that opened in the US before India because of Thanksgiving holiday here and is “about a couple that breaks up,and the events following when they are separated and how each ones grows individually. Both (characters) have got to start to figure out what to do in life and who they want to be,” said the 27-year-old actor.
Khan said it was “very enjoyable” working with a very young team and that he become close friends with director Danish Aslam, co-star Deepika Paduoke and producer Kunal Kohli.
“Deepika was a very accommodating and a very supportive co-star,” Khan said. “I really enjoy working with her because as an actor I believe that whoever is acting with me, the better they are, the better my performance becomes. I think her performance made my performance much better.”
But working with some of the senior Bollywood actors like Navin Nischol and Sharmila Tagore “was honestly a little intimidating”, said Khan. “But they were both very sweet, very gentle and very supportive of co-stars.”
“So, after a first couple of hours, you begin to see them as actors and forget the stars that they are,” he said. “But it takes me a little time to get over that initial nervousness.”
Khan said he was also very impressed by Aslam. “This is Danish’s first film as a director, but I think he is an extremely calm and confident director. The thing is when you are working on a set, 15 things can go wrong every day. But no matter what happened or what the situation was, he always took it in his stride.”
The actor said he fully supported Aslam’s rule of not allowing anyone to use a cell phone on the sets as films these days are shot in sync sound, which means the sound that’s recorded on the sets is used in the film.
If you have cell phones ringing it’s also very distracting for an actor,” he said. “All of my films, be it I Hate Love Stories, Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na, Break Ke Baad, and even my upcoming films, they are all shot with sync sound so it’s becoming a standard practice.”
Khan said that one day he would like to take on the director’s role as well. “Certainly it’s something I am very interested in and would like to do in life.”
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2010.
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