Aamir Khan plays a cop in Talaash
Mumbai:
Director Reema Kagti, who has teamedup with Aamir for her second film Talaash, has rubbishedreports that she and the actor had creative differences whileworking on the film.
`"There were no creative differences ... There was nointerference from him but yes there were lot of inputs. But henever stepped on my toes, he never forced me," Reema told PTIin an interview here.
"From the time Aamir has come on board he has been veryhelpful from taking this script to making it into a verygood film," she said. Though it's a first where Reema is directing Aamir, butshe has been an assistant for his films like Lagaan and DilChahta Hai. "He is co-operative, supportive and it's wonderful towork with him. He is a very talented actor, he has gotwonderful inputs. Aamir is obsessive about films and so am I.I know he followed me. He was respectful of me being adirector," Reema said.
"I have worked with him while I was assisting duringLagaan and Dil Chahta Hai so I knew him from before. I wascomfortable and there was no such problem," she said.Aamir has been accused of being interfering in the pastwhile working on Taare Zameen Par and Peepli Live.
Talaash has a stellar cast comprising of Aamir, KareenaKapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and others.
"Both Rani and Kareena are the finest actresses but havedifferent process of approaching their work. Rani needs a lotof preparation.. she wants to know everything while Kareena iscompletely opposite," Reema said.
"Rani is the proverbial front bencher and Kareena is theback bencher. But both of them have terrific control overtheir art," said Reema, whose first film as a director wasHoneymoon Travels Pvt Ltd.
On the casting she said, "I don't think I chose themthey chose me. It was something about the script that theyconnected with. When we got nod from Aamir we took it toKareena and Rani, we did couple of narrations and then theycame on board."
"We were trying to have bankable stars as it gives thefilm a good start...They were all very cool and I never feltthey were like superstars. I felt I was working with regularpeople and credit goes to them," she said.
Even Shah Rukh Khan was approached to play the role ofa cop Surjan Singh Shekhawat now played by Aamir in thesuspense drama."When Zoya and I finished writing the script the firstperson we approached was Aamir but at that point he wasshooting for Ghajini and was not reading scripts for a whileat all," Reema said.
"We moved on and we contacted a couple of actors butno one came on board, nobody agreed to do the part. Afterone-and-half-two years Aamir started hearing scripts again..so that's when we got chance to narrate him the script," shesaid.
The suspense drama jointly produced by ExcelEntertainment and Aamir Khan Productions, releases on November30.
`"There were no creative differences ... There was nointerference from him but yes there were lot of inputs. But henever stepped on my toes, he never forced me," Reema told PTIin an interview here.
"From the time Aamir has come on board he has been veryhelpful from taking this script to making it into a verygood film," she said. Though it's a first where Reema is directing Aamir, butshe has been an assistant for his films like Lagaan and DilChahta Hai. "He is co-operative, supportive and it's wonderful towork with him. He is a very talented actor, he has gotwonderful inputs. Aamir is obsessive about films and so am I.I know he followed me. He was respectful of me being adirector," Reema said.
"I have worked with him while I was assisting duringLagaan and Dil Chahta Hai so I knew him from before. I wascomfortable and there was no such problem," she said.Aamir has been accused of being interfering in the pastwhile working on Taare Zameen Par and Peepli Live.
Talaash has a stellar cast comprising of Aamir, KareenaKapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and others.
"Both Rani and Kareena are the finest actresses but havedifferent process of approaching their work. Rani needs a lotof preparation.. she wants to know everything while Kareena iscompletely opposite," Reema said.
"Rani is the proverbial front bencher and Kareena is theback bencher. But both of them have terrific control overtheir art," said Reema, whose first film as a director wasHoneymoon Travels Pvt Ltd.
On the casting she said, "I don't think I chose themthey chose me. It was something about the script that theyconnected with. When we got nod from Aamir we took it toKareena and Rani, we did couple of narrations and then theycame on board."
"We were trying to have bankable stars as it gives thefilm a good start...They were all very cool and I never feltthey were like superstars. I felt I was working with regularpeople and credit goes to them," she said.
Even Shah Rukh Khan was approached to play the role ofa cop Surjan Singh Shekhawat now played by Aamir in thesuspense drama."When Zoya and I finished writing the script the firstperson we approached was Aamir but at that point he wasshooting for Ghajini and was not reading scripts for a whileat all," Reema said.
"We moved on and we contacted a couple of actors butno one came on board, nobody agreed to do the part. Afterone-and-half-two years Aamir started hearing scripts again..so that's when we got chance to narrate him the script," shesaid.
The suspense drama jointly produced by ExcelEntertainment and Aamir Khan Productions, releases on November30.
