Dalip Tahil reveals Aamir Khan questioned Inder Kumar about scenes in Ishq: ‘You just do what I am telling you to do…’

He added, “When you are working with a director, you have to follow his vision. Especially with Inder Kumar, he used to have a clear vision about his style of storytelling and characters. He told Aamir jokingly 2-3 times, ‘Baba, tu apni picture bana, meri film mai jaise main bolraha hu vaise kar,’ because Aamir has a different approach. He actually went and made Lagaan after that, he made it after Ishq.”

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The veteran actor also revealed that during the 1980s, Aamir Khan was not only frustrated with the lack of bound scripts but also growing weary of repetitive roles. “Aamir had been in that situation for a very long time. He was frustrated, it was happening in the earlier films also. After QSQT also, when he would ask for the scenes, people were blank. There weren’t any bound scripts at that time. It was a basic outline. I could see his frustration mounting over the years,” he shared.

Dalip continued, “People only cast Aamir because he was a bankable star, then uske baap ke role mai kaun hai? Dalip Tahil ko le lo, because that’s a combination that works. If you see that state of movies, you will realise that it was chaotic. Aamir came from a line of people who worked with completed scripts, like his uncle Nasir Hussain and father Tahir. They came from a different film background where people were organised.”

Aamir Khan always aimed to be a part of a different kind of cinema, and eventually started making films to fulfill that dream. “After 80s, it was all about putting proposals together and Aamir suffered in that system, until he started making his own movies. There were a lot of films that we did that were really good, but some were frustrating. Everyone wanted us to do the same kind of thing. Aamir was restless; he wanted to be a part of a different kind of cinema,” he concluded.