Imran Khan explains why Aamir Khan doesn’t attend award functions, says no one in family is ‘enamoured’ by glamour: ‘We take our craft seriously’

Aamir Khan stopped attending Bollywood award shows in the 90s and has seen been vocal about them being high on glamour and low on honouring craft.

By: Entertainment Desk

Mumbai | May 21, 2024 11:46 AM IST

3 min read

Imran Khan talks about Aamir Khan and why the family doesn't attend award shows. (Photo: Aamir khan Productions, Imran Khan/Instagram)

What will it take for Amir Khan to attend Bollywood awards? Probably the same that will excite his nephew Imran Khan: honouring true craft over glitz. Imran, who has made a comeback in the public eye after more than a decade, has opened about why the family and his superstar mamu are not into collecting film awards.

In a new episode of Chill Sesh with comedians Sapan Verma, Raunaq Rajani and Prashasti Singh, Imran was asked about the lack of attendance of the Khan family at Bollywood award functions, which he said was because none in the family grew up starstruck with the glamour of the industry.

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“I grew up in a family of people, who dedicated themselves to the craft but none of them were enamoured by the glitz and the celebrity. What I was always taught was, ‘We take our craft seriously, we put our heart into that, the rest of it is sprinkling on the top, which you shouldn’t be enamoured with.’

Aamir stopped attending Bollywood award shows in the 90s and has seen been vocal about his stance on them. He had told Indianexpress.com earlier in an interview, how “commercial film awards are of no value” to him.

In the video, Imran Khan also spoke about how awards are given to film stars simply by their virtue of being available in the city when the event is taking place. Imran said he experienced it when a series of his award show functions were lined up after his debut film Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na in 2008.

“Right after my first film came out, we went through that phase. They don’t address it directly, they will ask, ‘Are you free on such and such date?’ Then if you say maybe, they will follow, ‘Achcha agar aap aa rahe hai toh…’ They don’t want to come out and directly talk about that thing. So, there were a bunch of these things which I felt were weird,” he added.

Imran Khan was last seen on the big screen in Katti Batti, co-starring Kangana Ranaut in 2015. The actor is in talks with multiple filmmakers to zero down on his comeback project.

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