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Aamir Khan on 'Lagaan': Karan, Adi advised not to shoot in single schedule
Updated On: 15 June, 2021 08:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Uma Ramasubramanian
From not paying heed to peers’ advice to taking `Lagaan` to Oscars, producer-actor Aamir Khan discusses it all as his masterpiece completes 20 years
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A still from the `Lagaan`
In theory, `Lagaan` (2001) is the classic underdog story. But on screen, it transformed into a masterpiece, becoming so much more than the David-versus-Goliath premise. Steeped in India’s history, the movie spoke of the oppression meted out to Indians during the British Raj, while questioning our country’s social evils of casteism and untouchability. It’s hardly surprising that the gem came from one of Hindi cinema’s brightest minds, Aamir Khan. Such was his faith in director Ashutosh Gowariker’s material that the actor turned producer with the magnum opus, mounting it on a budget unheard of in the early 2000s.
As the film completes 20 years today, Khan remembers Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar had advised him before he took the project on floors in Gujarat. “Karan and Adi were concerned for me. They said, ‘We heard you are planning it as a single-schedule shoot and [will employ] sync sound.’ They advised me against both ideas, stating that no one has used sync sound for years. But I went ahead [with my instinct]. The experiment was so successful that since then, I have only done sync sounds and all my projects have been filmed over one long schedule. It made me realise that I was thinking in the right direction,” says the superstar.
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