The actor was busy editing the May 6 issues of Lokmat, Lokmat Times and Lokmat Samachar!
A day prior to making his debut on television with the first episode of Satyamev Jayate, actor Aamir Khan spent time at the Lower Parel office of the Lokmat Group, being Guest Editor of its flagship publications.
The Group had invited Khan to interact with the senior editorial team and edit the May 6 issues of Lokmat, Lokmat Times and Lokmat Samachar, as these were dedicated to celebrating ‘100 years of Indian Cinema’.
While at Lokmat, Khan spoke of various things close to his heart. “Oh, to make a film on Mahabharata is a dream... yes it is a dream. I am learning Marathi and dream of making a Marathi movie someday,” he said.
“The entertainment industry’s core responsibility is to entertain. Over 99 years, Indian cinema has been successfully fulfilling the core responsibility of entertaining the masses across different cultures and languages,” he added.
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Going back to his childhood, the actor said that he used to watch virtually every programme on Doordarshan, even films in languages he did not understand. “We even used to watch the DD signal which was shown before the channel was tuned on. Language films would be aired on Saturday and Hindi films on Sunday. I think DD happened in October, 1972. There was a lot of excitement about it. Whatever was on air was to be watched! By the time I was 17 or 18, my interest veered to sports and slowly I moved away from watching DD. TV was also changing then,” Khan reminisced.
“There used to be a programme on DD called Chimanrao. I met someone from DD recently and requested him to send me the recording of that programme. Now that I am learning Marathi, it will help me. The main character in Chimanrao is very funny, and I enjoy him.”
On MTV, Khan said that when MTV was born, 80% of the channel’s content was English music. In no time, 80% of the content in the same channel became Hinglish. “If a person who watches MTV in America comes to India, he would get a shock,” Khan quipped. “The key to this is our emotional connect. We take things from abroad but mould them into our own.”
