#Don_t_watch_PK_if you_don’t #like_it_Aamir_Khan Yahoo India Movies 15 hrs ago MUMBAI: Even as the war on Twitter shows no signs of abating, Aamir Khan takes questions on playing an alien, being a socially responsible superstar and more. Aamir Khan’s films have a special place among children. Azad (his three-year-old son) is said to have loved PK and even copied his dance moves. MUMBAI: Even as the war on Twitter shows no signs of abating, Aamir Khan takes questions on playing an alien, being a socially responsible superstar and more. Aamir Khan’s films have a special place among children. Azad (his three-year-old son) is said to have loved PK and even copied his dance moves. Asked if it has been the best compliment yet, the superstar said: “Azad loves film music. When he was about one-year-old, he went crazy over Ayan (Mukerji)’s film, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani. Every morning he would want to dance to the film’s songs and I had to dance with him.” “Some days Kiran (Aamir’s wife) would join in. While I was doing Dhoom 3, Azad would watch me practising tap dance and he would do the same. I am happy he loved this one too.” Certainly, movies run in the family. We ask him if rumours of his daughter wanting to get into films are true. Aamir says he would be happy if she does so, but he doesn’t know if that’s the case now. Instead, he talks about the staggering mental preparations he needed to play the role of PK, the alien. “The challenge was to really clear my head off everything that I know about humans. I had to just try and grasp as if I have never had any previous knowledge about this planet. To get to the mind space where I don’t understand how this planet works was the big challenge. Trying to grapple with what PK is coming across. Raju’s script is very funny. Language was yet another big challenge.” Done it all From a man without memory to a man from outside the planet, Aamir has done it all. Now with biopics having become the flavour of the season, would he want to be part of one too? Believe it or balk, there are some fans of Narendra Modi on Twitter who think this socially conscientious Bollywood perfectionist would be in fact perfect to essay the role of our current prime minister! Aamir doesn’t junk the idea of playing Narendra Modi altogether, but puts the onus on the scriptwriter. “It really depends on whether such a film is offered to me. I don’t like to plan ahead. That is not an organic way of doing things. A film is born after a writer finishes the script, I would only come in when the film is ready to be made. I really don’t want to plan what I would like to do,” he said. Yet this man without a plan is the brain behind the TV show Satyamev Jayate that tells billion-plus Indians what not to do. So how does it work with his films? Does he consciously pick films that have some sort of a social message? “No, I do not consciously do that. But I do get attracted to stuff based on what kind of person I am. Other actors might not have gotten attracted to Taare Zameen Par the way I did. It was not really a mainstream film. But it worked for me. Some films appeal to me when they match my thoughts. Otherwise, I don’t go out looking for films with social messages,” said Aamir. “It is the writer and director who want to say something and I join them. My primary concern is: am I entertaining? If there is a messages mean that it will take a toll on the box office collections? One expects high opening figures from all his films, but this was not as big as Dhoom 3. Aamir differs. “We collected Rs 26 crores on the first day and that’s a very high figure. It’s actually higher than Dhoom 3. Some films came out on holidays and this came out on a regular Friday. On Sunday it was Rs 38.4 crores, which is again higher than Dhoom 3.” On his reluctance to market PK, we ask him if this is a method to create more intrigue surrounding the film and the star? Marketing Aamir brushes off the charge. “I think each film is unique
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