Actor-turned-director Aamir Khan Tired and badly needs off Relif.

Bollywood actor-turned-director Aamir Khan, whose directorial debut "Taare Zameen Par" has become a box-office hit, says that he is extremely tired and badly needs to unwind himself.

"My God! The past few months have been quite a ride. And the last month the most exciting, nerve racking, exhausting, rejuvenating, draining, enriching. Am I ever going to recover?" Aamir noted in his blog at www.aamirkhan.com this week.

"I feel like I've been stuffed into a washing machine, which doesn't have an off button. After this I really need to be put out to dry in the sun and left alone. But no such luck. I start shooting for 'Ghajini' on Jan 22," he penned.



"First things first... I have just smoked my last cigarette before sending this post. Yes, I have finally kicked the bad habit! I know I know I can already hear all of you all scream and shout. I was supposed to give up on Dec 31. But I didn't (which is one of the reasons I was avoiding posting).

"Second step: get back to sleeping early. Third: work out religiously.Fourth: get back on my healthy diet. Fifth: just stick to the above four for a while before taking the fifth step," he explained.

And while the actor shoots for "Ghajini" his to-do list includes: Work on the DVD of 'Taare...', work on the release plan of 'Jaane Tu...', Aamir Khan Production's next release, supervise preparations on 'Delhi Belly,' which starts shoot in March.

"Start preparation work on the other one that Aamir Khan Production is producing later this year yet untitled. Make innovations and progress on this site. Clean my study and my cupboard. So much junk has piled up in my rooms. Everyday I look at the mess and promise myself I'll get down to it at some point."


"In the meantime let us celebrate India's win over Australia. What a glorious win! Sweet and well deserved. We would have won the earlier test as well had it not been for remarkably bad luck with the umpiring.

"The victory is the more satisfying because we beat a team, which is unfortunately very arrogant and decidedly badly behaved on the cricket field. Incidentally, Aamir, a more-than-decent tennis player and admirer of Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, said that cricketers must take a lesson from tennis players.

"My sincere apologies to any fans of Australian cricket but I fail to understand why arguably the best team in the world has to behave so badly on the field. Or why this team feels the need to use excessively aggressive heckling to try and win a match. Can't they just play better?"

"I don't see Federer or (Andy) Roddick misbehaving with each other or anyone. I wish the Indian team didn't get influenced by the childish display and respond in kind. We should just quietly play better and win... or lose, as the case may be. But play with dignity."

Audience replay for TZP is an Sad Film.

Is it – really? Just a couple of questions to those who’ve been saying this and repeating it ever so often. Did you cry because it made you sad or because the film’s tender moments touched you? I am up to my ears with people saying Taare Zameen Par is a SAD film. “You cry throughout the film,” they wail. “The film is soooooo nice and the boy is sooooo wonderful but it’s succch a saaad film!”

But the film is about hope, it’s about giving and nurturing and laughing aloud with life, as it offers itself in all its myriad shades. A film which holds its own until the interval without the entry of the hero, who (when he enters) sprinkles sunshine all around him, a hero who makes you laugh and makes you cry (with joy) when he helps his ward realise his potential.

Did you cry because you fell in love with Ishaan Awasthi aka Darsheel Safary – the little dyslexic boy or because you felt happy with what he achieved? Or could it be that tears came unbidden because the film acted as a mirror of your insensitivity as an adult who failed to understand a special child? Why did you cry?

It is a very brave, courageous mainstream film which pulls you in, takes you head on, insists that you take a good hard look at yourselves as parents, guardians, teachers and individuals and not continue to view all the children with the same eye because ‘each child is special’.

TZP celebrates the achievements of these gifted children, who ‘we in all our wisdom’ fail to see as normal ’coz ‘we are more normal than them.’ Can there be a more twisted piece of logic than that? Now, that should make you cry.

Aamir Khan is relaxed after the release of his first directorial debut

AAMIR KHAN was blessed with a movie lineage, good looks and an inherent acting talent. He could do no wrong, one would think.

Aamir Khan is relieved and relaxed after the release of his first directorial debut. What makes him feel so happy is, "all his day dreams came true". He is overwhelmed by the response to TZP .

He had an art house release at the outset of his career, Holi by Ketan Mehta. This was a film to be shown in festivals and garner awards. For the public, his debut was Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak.





















Aamir calls himself a day dreamer and thanks his fans for making all his dreams come true. He says, "I am so moved by the response, I am unable to express myself properly.

He informs that the film is getting a standing ovation. TZP is receiving similar response which he got during Lagaan . He says, "Everyone is loving it - from parents, children, youth, teenagers, grandparents, people from different economic and social backgrounds, industry colleagues to taporis ."

He further adds that the most interesting response that his team received is from the gatekeeper from one of the theatres, who said, "I really need to see the film. What is there in it that everyone is loving it so much?"

Acting and directing together for the first time was a bit of a challenge.says Aamir khan

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan spoke candidly to South African journalists from Mumbai about his accidental debut as director in his latest film, "Taare Zameen Par", which opens worldwide this Friday, and his views on educating children today.

"It's about a kid who has a passion for painting but faces a lot of difficulty in his academic life. It's a story about his life and his relationship with his art teacher, which is the role that I play, by changing his life through caring and understanding. That is the key message of the film - that with caring and love you can actually do a lot," Aamir said.

"I think my character is very open-minded as a teacher. He doesn't believe in the rigid authority of what is conventional education."When teaching children, it's very important that kids enjoy what they are doing, and that's when they learn best because it's exciting for them. It's our responsibility to make it exciting for kids."

"About a week into the shooting I was not very happy and Amole Gupte (who wrote the script and was directing the film) and I had a meeting and I expressed my reservations.

"Obviously we realised that we had creative differences, so I offered to him that I would back off. Gupte gave it some thought and both of us decided that perhaps I should take over the responsibility."

"It is challenging and comes with its own demands so I did the best that I could. I think I'm quite happy with the way the film has turned out.

"While it was tough to do both things, it's not something that has not been done before. There are some great examples before us - Raj Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Guru Dutt, Charlie Chaplin. You know a lot of them have acted and directed at the same time."

Commenting on rumours that he may be seen on screen with Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan soon, and also on Madhuri Dixit's comment that he was the actor she would most want to act with again now that she has made a comeback after motherhood, Aamir said: "Madhuri is a wonderful co-star. I've really enjoyed working with her and if and when the opportunity comes up again, I'd love to repeat that.

"Again, I'm a big fan of Amitji and if I ever get the chance to work with him it will be my good fortune. Salman is a friend and I think we had a great time doing 'Andaaz Apna Apna', so while there is nothing definite on the cards with any of these three, if it does happen, I'd be happy."

Aamir Khan think towards Black

Aamir Khan has recently criticized superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s film ‘Black’ for being ‘insensitive’.

He said that certain things in the black movie don’t make any sense like, whether the house of the character played by Rani Mukherjee is a church, library or a house.














He also questioned the sense behind handing over a blind, deaf and dumb kid played by Ayesha to a drunkard teacher played by Amitabh Bachchan and also Amitabh’s slapping of the girl. Aamir was of the opinion that special kids are to be treated as shown in his upcoming movie ‘Taare Zameen Par’ and not like in Black.

Aamir Khan in his way

It has been reported that Aamir Khan has rejected a three film offer worth Rs. 60 crores from Adlabs because of no proper script in hand.

Money has not at all a prime concern for this actor. All he needs is a good script. Previously Adlabs offered Aamir Rs. 50 crores for this deal.

But they again raised the amount to Rs. 60 crore in a hope to draw his attention,as Aamir seems to be not interested.

Aamir refused the big deal by telling them that he does not do any film just for money and that the story is important to him.