I’ve no success recipe: Aamir Khan

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He has given back to back hits like “Taare Zameen Par”, “Ghajini” and “3 Idiots” in the last three years but Bollywood actor Aamir Khan claims he has “no recipe” to make a successful film and he doesn’t know what audiences want.
“I don’t have any recipe (for success). Lot of us often forget that the business we are in by definition is basically selling stories… We have to be different each time. I have to reinvent myself, I have to be different - that’s the demand of my job. It’s not something that I am thinking and doing,” Aamir said.
“I am attracted to scripts that move me emotionally and when you have such stories to tell, it doesn’t matter how unusual it is, people connect to it,” he added.
The 44-year-old who was here at the Economic Times Awards also stressed that he is oblivious to the audience demand in terms of content.
“I’ve no idea what audiences want. I only have an idea about what I want… When I read a script, I go with my gut and then it just happens,” he said.
Aamir’s latest outing “3 Idiots” has smashed all records and become Hindi cinema’s highest grosser till date with collections crossing Rs. 240 crore worldwide.

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Jackson’s family hopes his killer will be caught

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With the coroner stating that pop legend Michael Jackson was murdered, his family members are pinning hopes on the police to catch the person who killed him.
The news came after the emergence of the death certificate stating that Jackson was murdered. While a original July 7 certificate has no cause of death on it, further probes in the case by medical examiner Christopher Rogers amended on August 31, 2009, call his accidental death on June 25 last year a ‘homicide’, reports newsoftheworld.co.uk.

Rogers concludes Jackson died from ‘acute Propofol intoxication’ due to an ‘intra-venous injection by another’ and the family is hoping to find out the culprit.

‘We are all keeping our faith with the police. We want them to do this case properly and put away the man who we feel is responsible for Michael’s death. We want the authorities though to release details of what happened to Michael in his last few hours,’ said a family source, on condition of anonymity.

‘We want the paperwork to come out to show just what drugs were put inside him and what happened in his last few hours alive. Much of the documentation has been kept secret - and we can’t understand it. We still feel that there is more than one person responsible for Michael’s tragic death. Joe (Jackson’s father) won’t give up on getting justice for his son and a lawsuit is his focus,’ the source added.

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Big-B named best actor at Star Screen Awards

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Amitabh Bachchan bagged the best actor award for ‘Paa’, while Vidya Balan was named the best actress for the same movie at the Nokia 16th Annual Star Screen Awards here late Saturday.
Rajkumar Hirani bagged the best director award and shared the best screenplay award with Abhijat Joshi for ‘3 Idiots’.

‘3 idiots’ claimed the best film award.

The awards function, held at the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) grounds, was a star-studded affair.

The best female singer award was bagged by Kavita Sethi for ‘Ek tara’ from ‘Wake Up Sid’, while the best male singer award went to Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for ‘Aaj din chadeya’ from ‘Love Aaj Kal’.

Imitiaz Ali bagged the best story award for ‘Love Aaj Kal’. The award for the best performance in a comic role went to Omi Vaidya for ‘3 Idiots’, while the award for the best actor in a negative role went to Boman Irani for ‘3 idiots’.

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Amitabh, Abhishek Bollywood’s ‘best jodi’

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Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek were honoured with the best jodi award for their chemistry in ‘Paa’ at the STAR Screen Awards.
Amitabh played Abhishek’s son who suffers from progeria, a disease that accelerates the ageing process. The father-son duo also entertained the audiences at the event Saturday by doing the Auro dance at the behest of their hosts Shah Rukh Khan and Shahid Kapoor.

After Shah Rukh’s repeated request, Big B and Abhishek danced on the ‘Paa’ number and Shahid and Shah Rukh too tried to match steps with them.


In all, ‘Paa’ won five awards including best actor award for Amitabh, best actor female for Vidya Balan, best child actor for Pratik and best supporting actor female for Arundhati.

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We must encourage children to question: Aamir Khan

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Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, who tackled the problem of dyslexia in his 2007 hit ‘Taare Zameen Par’ and threw light on the pressure of studies in his latest outing ‘3 Idiots’, Sunday called for encouraging children to question rather than just memorising facts.
‘We put our children in compartments and teach them to memorise… We must encourage them to be free thinkers and free spirited. It has to start from the young age. We must encourage them to question and make mistakes. We must hear a child’s view,’ Aamir said.

The 44-year-old was here at The Economic Times Awards.

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