When Karan Johar And Aditya Chopra Had Warned Aamir Khan Against Lagaan: “They Told Me I Was Making A Big Mistake”

New Delhi:

On 20 years of Lagaan, Aamir Khan revealed what his filmmaker associates Karan Johar and Aditya Chopra had stated in regards to the movie earlier than he began capturing for it. Oscar-nominated Lagaan was directed by Ashutosh Gowariker and produced by Aamir Khan, who starred because the lead actor within the movie. It was shot in Gujarat in a single schedule, which was “something that had never happened before” when Ashutosh Gowariker made Lagaan. In an interview with information company PTI, Aamir Khan revealed that he was informed by Karan Johar and Aditya Chopra that he was making “a big mistake” by engaged on Lagaan they usually additionally “advised him to not shoot the film in a single schedule” because it “will become a mess.” However, Aamir listened to his heart and the rest is history.

“I remember I met Karan Johar and Adi (Aditya Chopra) at a party just a few days before the outdoor and they told me I was making a big mistake. They advised me to not shoot in a single schedule. They said it will become a mess but I stuck to my guts. And today both Adi and Karan are doing sync sound and single schedule,” Aamir informed PTI and termed his decision to act in the film and work on it a “turning point” in his life.

Lagaan is among the most iconic movies of Indian cinema. It garnered a complete lot of reward on nationwide and worldwide platforms – the film received an Oscar nomination in 2002 under the Best Foreign Language Film and gained eight National Film Awards, together with Best Choreography, Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment, Best Music Direction, Best Audiography, Best Lyricist and Best Art Direction. It remodeled Rs 650 million worldwide and turned out to be the third highest-grossing Hindi movie of 2001 after Karan Johar’s Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... and Sunny Deol’s Gadar: Ek Prem Katha.

Lagaan, which is ready within the pre-independence period and is a few small village within the central India, was Aamir’s first movie as a producer and whereas speaking to PTI, the actor stated he’s glad he determined to enterprise into manufacturing with Lagaan because it helped him to take choices like using the then-latest sync-sound recording and in addition introducing the primary assistant director system.

It’s not like Aamir Khan stated sure to Lagaan proper after Ashutosh Gowariker narrated him the script. The actor was doubtful too and he had his causes – the movie broke many guidelines in its time and was rather a lot totally different than different Bollywood movies again within the Nineties. It was set in opposition to cricket and had a runtime of practically 4 hours. “Ashutosh narrated the story to me and I really liked it but I thought, ‘This is too complex a film, I’m not getting into this.’ Ashutosh went around the industry with the script and every six months, I would hear about it. I’m talking about the year 1997-98, when he was still taking the script around,” Aamir informed PTI.

“But in the case of Lagaan… It was made at a time when people were wearing designer clothes and shooting in Switzerland. Here we were wearing a ‘bandi‘ and ‘dhoti‘ and speaking in Awadhi. We were breaking a lot of rules of mainstream cinema,” he added.

Lagaan reveals how a bunch of villagers, led by Bhuvan (Aamir Khan), stand in opposition to British officer Captain Russell (Paul Blackthorne) and problem the British Army for a recreation of cricket to keep away from the heavy tax burden.

The film also starred Gracy Singh, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajendra Gupta, Raghubir Yadav, Rajesh Vivek, Pradeep Rawat and British actors Rachel Shelley and Paul Blackthorne amongst many others.

(With inputs from PTI)