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Riding high on the success of his directorial debut The Ba***ds of Bollywood, now streaming on Netflix, Aryan Khan is making headlines not just as Shah Rukh Khan’s son, but as a filmmaker carving his own path. Now, in a recent interview with Variety, Aryan opened up about how storytelling has been his lifelong passion.
“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve preferred telling stories. I always felt I had a lot of things to say, and I just feel I could tell it in a different and an interesting way. I just felt there’s more control behind the camera. And, it’s simply you enjoy it more. It’s something you love more. And I feel if you do something that you love, you always do a better job. And it stops being a job after a point, you look forward to it every day, and it’s what you want to do,” he said.
Aryan Khan also reflected on how his father, Shah Rukh Khan, introduced him to the world of filmmaking at a young age. “My father himself is extremely in depth about the aspects of filmmaking, whether it is VFX, whether it is lighting, camera work, whatever. And ever since I was a kid, he would show me this – ‘You don’t actually get shot. This is how it happens.’ Or, how do you make a plane fly through the sky without actually making a plane fly? And all of that was, obviously, it’s like magic to a child,” he recalled.
That early exposure turned into a hands-on passion. Aryan revealed that by the age of 10 or 11, he was already experimenting with VFX on iMovie and editing on Final Cut Pro. Speaking further about his love for cinema, Aryan shared how the pandemic became a period of creative exploration with his close friends and collaborators Bilal Siddiqi and Manav Chauhan. “We made at least 15 to 20 films together, short ones for different people, also for people trying to apply to film schools, for people who wanted to act,” he said.
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Even during the lockdown, the trio kept creating. “We wrote one during lockdown as well, which we just shot at home because we had two years of not much to do. And we shot it with my sister (Suhana Khan) and my dad, and I was just the DOP on that one,” Aryan shared. “So that’s how we actually got started. We were just jamming on multiple different things, thinking of storylines, plots, and we thought we should do it properly, and do it on a larger scale.”
Interestingly, Shah Rukh Khan himself once dreamed of becoming a filmmaker before fate led him to acting. He had even enrolled in a filmmaking course at Jamia Millia Islamia. While life took him down a different path, it seems his son Aryan Khan is now living the dream his father once envisioned for himself.
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