Ibrahim Ali Khan calls Nadaaniyan ‘a really bad film’: ‘It’s a massive low’

Though Ibrahim Ali Khan admitted the shortcomings of Nadaaniyan, he also shared how the trolling deeply affected him. “It was really bad. It became a sort of culture to, ‘Oh, let’s troll that film.’ There were people who were trolling it just because they heard that some other person was trolling it. That’s uncalled for, but if I now give a blockbuster in the future, I want the same kind of response. They should go mad after me,” said Ibrahim.

Analysing his mistake, Ibrahim admitted that he might have jumped into making an acting debut too quickly at the age of 21–22, while his peers are often launched much later. “Of course, I was working very hard—like I’m still working hard on my speech issue. But in a way, I feel I must have rushed into that movie. I was 21 when I began shooting for it—others around me are doing it at 26, 27, 28—and I now think I could have been more mindful of the scale of what was going to happen,” he said.

Along with Ibrahim Ali Khan, Nadaaniyan marked Shauna Gautam’s directorial debut. Ibrahim’s second acting project was Sarzameen, which was also helmed by a debutant director – Kayoze Irani, son of Boman Irani. Ibrahim will next be seen in Diler, a sports drama directed by Kunal Deshmukh.