The 45-year-old, who has produced Peepli Live, a satire on farmer's suicides and subsequent media and political response in the country, rues filmmakers ignore rural India.
"There is a clear divide between Bharat (Hindustan) and India. If I were to go to Hollywood to earn my living, I would feel much cut off from my roots, my home in Mumbai. Filmmakers these days no longer care about rural India," he added.
Aamir, who is playing one of the lead actors in Dhobi Ghaat, says getting the role in his wife Kiran Rao's directorial debut was not a cakewalk.
"Kiran is a fantastic director. People think that I am a perfectionist, but I had to go through an audition, to help her decide that I am good for the role and then she cast me. I am one of the four lead actors in the movie"
I do kida agree with Aamir that seldom there are film makers who actually are trying to make movies for single screen audience, forget about rural India. Big reason why Aamir is leading the pack right now.
ReplyDeleteSaw the entire interview on Zee News. He never said he only liked his movies. It was only the interviewer who commented that the movies he's naming as universal are his own. Aamir also included Munnabhai series in his list. Recently in another interview he's said that he liked Raajneeti. The reporters obviously cooked up another malicious report against him, which is now being splashed around everywhere.
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