Kiran Rao says Laal Singh Chaddha failure affected ‘creative animal’ Aamir Khan ‘quite deeply’: ‘Instead of being bitter, he reassessed…’

“It is really disheartening when you put in all the efforts, and it doesn’t work. Which happened with Laal Singh Chaddha. It definitely affected Aamir quite deeply, it affected all of us. It was a project that had seen a lot, done the COVID roller coaster and had been a dream project for Aamir. He had been working to get the rights of the film for a decade before we made it. It was disappointing.

“I am really happy that people are responding well on social media, because I do feel the film didn’t get as much of a chance but it didn’t work. We do have to accept the fact that people didn’t like it or didn’t want to see it.”

After the debacle, Aamir didn’t announce any film for two years and went on a break. The actor is now working on his next, Sitare Zameen Par. Describing Aamir as a “creative animal”, who is “exceedingly good at what he does”, Kiran said the actor needed that time off.

“After having a big box office disaster, he needed that time to recalibrate, to see where he had gone wrong. He is one of those people who won’t go out being bitter but will be like I will step away first and reassess what I am doing wrong and what I really want to be doing next. This renewed Aamir is now producing six films. So clearly the time off was useful and productive,” she added.

Kiran Rao is currently awaiting the release of her next, Laapataa Ladies. The film, starring Ravi Kishan, Nitanshi Goel, Pratibha Ranta, Sparsh Shrivastava, and Chhaya Kadam, will hit theatres on March 1.