Aamir Khan on Laapataa Ladies, Oscar aspirations, and future films | BBC News India

[@SohilNikam]

He is such a earnest man. So in touch with his inner self. Man, I hope I come even close to being so true to my emotions when talking to people someday.

[@ayonmitra8967]

Love you Aamir....you were are and will be my favorite...Always..

[@SuperNarula]

I find him to be very intelligent who always gives well thought out responses. I resonate with his thinking.

[@AbhishekSingh-xq7hy]

Indian movies are so diverse and even great film here can't get all type of audience. Also, academy won't try to understand any culture (indian, japanese, chinese etc.) They just think what's trending and feels them good. It's very tough for us, but it's ofcourse not most important.

[@Dheeraj-y4f]

oscar is focused on american movies

[@AbhishekSingh-xq7hy]

@@Dheeraj-y4f yes, so we should focus on the quality of our films, not Oscars

[@kanishkkumar5046]

My favourite actor

[@Shagufta-ss-l8j]

His words choice is very articulate he is so well spoken man

[@bluesque9687]

Aamir Khan is the top tier legend of Indian Cinema. Aamir Khan's integrity and grit is unquestionable. He is brave and he has a big heart. And he has made better movies than any of his contemporaries. He has done a lot for the people and society as well. Aamir khan is an all-round legend of India. This is now unquestionably true. ❤

[@enjoystraveling]

I like how Aamir Khan really thinks about his answer instead of just giving a short, humorous and cliché answer like some celebrities or actors

[@ShahidShai-w7c]

Aamir khan Sir Real Legend ❤️‍🔥

[@Trackandshield]

Why majority of Oscar winning movies are American made hollywood movies??? Because oscar is an American award show. Stop pitting it as some sort of international award.

[@divyvihanatal4783]

Ye baat rajamoli ke time yaad nhi aayi

[@lakshya_dagur]

Oscar isn’t given to the best movie of the year but to the best movie among the most popular movies and hollywood promotes and release their movies across countries and that’s why hollywood movies are most famous and have the most probability to win it

[@Dheeraj-y4f]

its true, oscar takes place only in usa

[@Trackandshield]

​@@lakshya_dagurlast year 54 movies nominate Hui jisme 51 movies hollywood made thi... Ab bata konsa international award hai

[@fabulously695]

The oscars, like the Grammys and Tonys, are a popularity contest.

[@SamimSiddiqui-d5h]

Amir Khan ❤

[@s.rgalaxy1228]

Nice person

[@RyanA-yp2vu]

You hardly asked him about his upcoming movies and which movies he is currently acting in

[@kamalrajregmi100]

Amir is alwaqys fav , he does have cult classic movies

[@Jude2352]

We are to lucky to have him

[@jeojoseph8652]

He is a true legend

[@musarrathasan1506]

Cant believe he is almost 60. He looks like 40

[@kitibanra1909]

Mr Amit khan is a real hero but I like action and thinking

[@shushunk00]

Global recognition=american recognition 😂

[@Ratinalinsaan]

Ur comment cheap local jealousy and stupidity

[@coffin789-if9pl]

Just bullywood PR things 😂😂😂

[@therealkendallroy]

i don't ever see anyone else complain and whine as much as Indians do with their whole "woe is me" bullshit

[@VarunArora-lm9ls]

It sincerely surprises me how an interviewer who gets the opportunity to interview such an interesting man can ask such generic beat up cliche questions about India-and-oscars which he has answered oh so many times.

[@kalaapighoshroy2772]

Good to know, he is learning Hindustani Classical Music

[@sm9474]

An Indian documentary did win the best documentary Oscar. I wish we consider documentaries at par with movies. Elephant Whisperers was in no way less Indian. It was an Indian tale loved by one and all around the world!

[@psixpointer]

6:58 i think that was deliberate

[@crazyfriendist]

2:54 gross generalization, I hv been to so many weddings, I hv nvr seen the bride with covered up veil, in fact in many states brides dress up very royally and do wear make up on the wedding day, everyone who comes to wedding takes photos with brides , even in rural places. The veil thing is mostly in very few states in northern India. And muslim weddings are very diff from Hindu weddings , in my state in Muslim weddings the couple don’t even sit together, there is a separator deviding the wedding stage for men and women. The backwardness in India is limited to some places, but of course the west wants to fantasize that whole of India is like that.

[@raja-jl9os]

Bollywood was always mediocre industry

[@Aalokwon]

The movie is based in 2000 and it's still in culture in many villages.

[@Ursfrndlyneena]

The worst culprits are Rajasthani culture. The bride is required to be in ghoonghat in front everyone the time she spends in sasural. Was surprised when my friend who used to rides bikes, was an MBA graduate who grew up in Tamilnadu was in ghoonghat the entire time. I'm talking about 2024.

[@crazyfriendist]

@ no where in south India women had veils covering their faces even 3 or 4 decades back either.

[@raja-jl9os]

@Ursfrndlyneena burkha is good but ghoont is bad

[@stylishboy004]

Aatank hi Aatank (1995) is Aamir Khan's best movie.

[@mayamemsaab8397]

Legend

[@kalaapighoshroy2772]

The Mangal Pandey look again

[@KaramatHussainJahangiri]

Big fan❤❤❤

[@rahulb4638]

I love this man

[@PapriDasReporting]

why is bbc interviewing him and not Kiran?!c wtf

[@saadamirbutt5988]

He doesn't contribute even 10% of Amir Khan contribution towards Indian Cinema....💯👍 Also You have to understand that He chooses kiran for the subject 'Laapata Ladies'... She Doesn't knows even the A B C of Film Making💯

[@Vict-nu4id]

Aamir is brand. BBC wants him

[@bublabasu9509]

Why not interview the director?

[@muhammadabdullah7756]

23:54 thank you please never sing again 😂😂 like your acting and personality though ❤❤

[@spylock8816]

❤🙌✨

[@sangamkharade]

Oscar is not a benchmark really, why their is so much obsession... He is right, no need to take awards seriously

[@ridy9710]

It's just that if a movie has made it to the oscar, more people comes to know about the film.

[@charuduttmalhara]

Why do all the Aamir Khan interviews around Laapata Ladies feels the same? Almost same questions and same scripted answers

[@AbhishekSingh-xq7hy]

Ofcourse, interviewers won't have any idea what to ask about the plot..they are clueless

[@MOHMMADMUDDAASSIR]

Thanxx 999sabscriber

[@SenorSol]

Aamir Khan can speak English very well, unlike India's PM! LOL!

[@Vict-nu4id]

He is real genius actor and star

[@ExplorerXyz-om6mz]

Tbh ,Oscar award is baseless in foreign category because the judges can't understand local humor, cultural context, coherent dialogues & the delicacy of poetic devices used in dialogues all they see is running pictures with English subtitles which cannot deliver the same euphoria which locals received while watching. Why do we need " gora validation to appreciate films we liked"? Oscar in foreign category is an adjustment to make it a global award which it isn't .

[@Melvin_rego]

It is quite surprising India sends every Aamir film for oscars?

[@susmoybasak2971]

Maybe others are not competent enough?

[@subhamdas943]

@@susmoybasak2971 All We Imagine as Light, won the Grand Prix at Cannes this year, so its definitely competent. They are just biased.

[@RR-oo2wf]

No They Don't

[@coffin789-if9pl]

Poor amir pays so much for the oscars and every damn time he got insulted by oscars😂😂😂

[@subhradeepghosh7209]

Manjummel boys Thangalam Goat Life Legends know what i am talking about

[@RaniDevi-gp6vb]

😮

[@thapaajay]

AR Rahman winning Oscars for Jai Ho while it is not even his Top 5 best composition tells Oscars is for American [English] movies. And I am not even Indian defending this.

[@RahilSethi]

Why is she doubling down on why Indian movies don't win Oscars for the best film? Well, Oscars is for Hollywood movies in English language! If there were Hollywood movies that had directors, actors, producers from India, some of them actually won! A few of then: Gandhi, Slumdog millionaire, Life of Pi etc. So her question seems silly. The only category Indian movies in local Indian language(s) will make it to Oscars is in foreign category. Sometimes they do bend the rules if the movie has been so popular in the west. Like RRR got recognition, which was partly in English.

[@Saurav0701]

Lapata ladies is a nice film and I'm happy it was successful, but its in no way oscar worthy. I don't think that a nice message is enough to pivot a film to sn Oscar. There were better indie films which were actually taking bold steps in filmmaking and had something new to say, but too bad they weren't backed by amir khan. Still i wish them luck

[@insearchofnemo]

That accent of hers is so annoying.

[@fabulously695]

Is it helpful? Is it kind? Just because you can say something doesn't mean you should. Her accent reflects her roots-a tapestry of her history. Comments like yours risk appearing uneducated and classist. Please, aim to do better. In a world already filled with negativity, let’s seize every opportunity to lift one another up.

[@AnthroHistorian]

Aamir Khan used his clout to get his own production Laapata Ladies selected as India's official entry to Oscars, thus preventing India from getting an easy nomination for All We Imagine As Light

[@kalaapighoshroy2772]

Unfortunately it didn't won at the finals because of the name change, I guess.. from lapatta ladies to lost ladies. Its a story related to rural India toh naam bhi Laapata Mahilayen rakhtein film ka..

[@nirbhaydiwan3760]

If this is an Oscar worthy 🤦movie Than I am the president of America.

[@JJ-rv4lq]

This is an Oscar worth movie ... But you are a president of the gutka chaap chapris like the MF sarukh khan

[@aroosaqasim5414]

I have a question anything which is against indian customs, tradition or culture nominated in Oscar 😅 why they glorify it too much, while in West science fictions get Oscars, why?

[@rajeev20230]

Lapata ladies is a copy of a 1999 movie "ghughat ke pat khol" by anant mahadevan

[@Freefirelover-oy9qq]

Really shame on Bollywood

[@DDKulturzGaming]

Thats an aussie or kiwi accent

[@anamraficorp.7343]

If Mother India or Lagaan did not or could not win the Oscar, there is no way any other Indian movie would win it. The reason is that nowadays Indian movies do not have the quality, capability and the touch needed to win. Indian movies have become simply empty and simply 'bad'.

[@HasteHsate]

Sirf remake bnata hai.. Aur bari bari bate krta hai... Esse Bach kr rhe ho apne bhai ka sath etn galat kr skta hai wo aapke sath kya Karega..

[@camelkarma]

He copied the movie

[@Brts44]

This guy looks unwell. And clearly not an Oscar material in acting capabilities.

[@muhammadabdullah7756]

It's crazy the idea that if no one can see the bride in veil but the bride can see everything did not came to a single person's mind 😂

[@anamraficorp.7343]

Other than movies made by Amir Khan such as this movie he is talking about, Indian or Bollywood movies, in particular, have become trashy. No longer do you watch an Indian movie and for days you either sing the tune of one of the songs or remember the dialogue or some emotional scenes from the film. Bollywood movies are nothing but a bunch of skin flicks. Basically, they suck. I used to be a great supporter and lover of Indian movies but those days are gone. It is sad to see them becoming more like South Indian movies, basically idiotic.

[@DebaprasadSamal-ok2mt]

Bollywood 🤡🤮

[@itsnotsocool]

He is the most insecure actor of Indian cinema, only few people can see it.

[@AbhishekSingh-xq7hy]

Not most, not put correctly😂

[@LS5565]

BS. Aamir is no more or less insecure than any other actor, worldwide. Actors , by very nature of their profession tend to be insecure. And Aamir is all right for the most part He wears his heart openly on his sleeve , speaks earnestly, frankly, empathetically, sensibly. There are worse ppl around. Ppl who term him insecure are either fans of rival stars or those who have bought into the negativity created against Aamir for political reasons through past decade..

[@DharvNarraidoo]

If he was insecure to that extent he would never want to retire so soon even if he changed his mind

[@kiranpeter5630]

Haen 😂

[@itsnotsocool]

@@DharvNarraidoo that drama he did to gain sympathy after laal singh chadha failure.

[@Scribbly_Chi_10]

Laapata ladies is an okay movie, it's not oscar worthy movie though, if this is oscar worthy, then every Ayushman Khurana movie is oscar worthy, there are so many other movies that needed to be nominated by our committee, but i guess naah, they are either too corrupted or too high to see that, sardar udham, was a movie, that could've actually won something, the screenplay of that movie was oscarworthy, but the committee is just too tired to look at deep nuanced movies, all they want is surface level stuff.

[@gruntgobshite]

Ayushman Khurana’s movies usually veers into melodrama which the Academy and critics outside India scoff at. Far from nuanced filmmaking. Laapataa is an extremely well made film, but you are right, it’s not Oscar-worthy. The film that should have been selected is Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light. Comparable to the finest works of Wong kar-wai. As for Sardar Udham, it’s a well shot film and that’s about it. The best film Shoojit Sircar has made till date is October. Only film of his close to world class quality. And I’m not saying it, it’s Shoojit himself who has said it. That film was poetry and also so nuanced. But again none of them Oscar-worthy.

[@shankar5497]

Oscar is given or nominated to movies which shows indians poor, hungry, illiterate which they love to see such as slumdog, lagaaan, lapata ladies. Its as simple as that.

[@ExplorerXyz-om6mz]

​@@shankar5497 Oscar is an American award show . It's not an international award, give away only 2-3 awards in foreign category. 95% is Hollywood movies 🤦. Judges are also "gora pakora" or should I say either American or British.

[@anamraficorp.7343]

And when it comes to music and singing, Indian movies have hit rock bottom. Songs suck, the voices are terrible, lyrics are unbearable, and the music itself does not have the Indian touch.

[@mdsobujhossainbonohorit]

With OSCAR and AMIR KHAN relation between them is ancient ....LAGAN film had went to OSCAR and fought for best movie of the year..May Oscar would be an aspire for Kiran Rao and she deserve's it but Amir Khan had spun Oscar..❤❤❤❤❤❤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

[@nirbhaydiwan3760]

This . movie doesn't deserve oscar.

[@Gamover123]

Pushpa 2 deserve 😂

[@coffin789-if9pl]

That's why oscars threw them out😂😂

[@nirbhaydiwan3760]

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[@MustafaKhan-wk1fp]

Amir Khan is a good actor but not good enough to win an Oscar yet. Indian movies still lag far behind in terms of quality and story when it comes to attracting international audience. Long way to go tho.

[@alvinvazha1144]

Not really. Look at the movie 'Green book'. It's retelling the age old issue of racism, yet it won the Oscar. Oscars are more about publicity than the story. India hasn't won't yet because the production houses can't match the PR budget of movies from other countries. Aamir is filling that gap with Laapata ladies.

[@Megha-h7k]

@@alvinvazha1144 exactly there are so many actors in the west even in east asian countries who can't act that gr8 but still are plauded by our indian audience just cause they know how to hate their own people only and we do have gr8 actors actually a many who are applauded by producers and directors world wide and india we even take micro expressions seriously so i donno why such people have the mentality about indian actors

[@MustafaKhan-wk1fp]

@ I think it’s not about the money but the quality of movies and the whole shebang that wins you movies at the Oscars.

[@alvinvazha1144]

@@MustafaKhan-wk1fp not always the case. Yes quality matters, but only if it reaches majority of the academy members who votes. And for each screening, it costs millions, which most studios outside the US cannot compete. Honestly, Laapata ladies isn't the best Indian movie this year, yet it is the best bet to go the distance because its backed by a good production house. Also look at the case of last years oscar winner Naatu Naatu from RRR. Thats not even Keeravani's best work, but it was well marketed. They went to all the late night shows they could afford.

[@Megha-h7k]

@@MustafaKhan-wk1fp it is actually do u think anyone can do period drama better than Sanjay Leela Bhansali atleast not the set and dresses still no oscar