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Aamir Khan: I am totally indiscipline

Aamir Khan is popularly known as Bollywood’s Mr Perfectionist. His films are an epitome of him being a brilliant actor and a filmmaker. People often perceive Aamir Khan as the disciplinarian. On being asked about the same, Aamir who was present as the chief guest at the book launch of Rajkumar Hirani's wife Manjeet Hirani said, "I am totally indiscipline. It’s hard to believe but this is a fact. The only thing that takes me back to work is my passion for acting. Rest, I am not disciplined."

Earlier, in an interview with a leading Indian daily, Aamir spoke about the factors to judge anyone’s stardom during the period of the 90s. He said, "Back in the '90s when there wasn't so much talk about box-office numbers, how could you tell someone is finally a star? From the time I was seven, I remember reading Trade Guide, and other box-office journals. We would check out the figures of dad's films, and there would be a circuit-wise breakup. Within the industry, the [box-office] knowledge was always there, since cinema has always been around as a business."


Aamir further added, "Today, mainstream media is picking up box-office figures, and that's a choice you're making. In small towns, for instance, when people didn't know box-office numbers, one way to gauge stardom was if people had begun copying an actor's haircut. True? There are many yardsticks for measuring how popular a star is. Copying style is one of them. I remember when Mr Bachchan became a huge star; I wanted to get bell-bottoms made like his. For me, it is essentially about how many seats one fills. It means that people love you and your work, and now they want to go and experience it. That's important."

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