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By Our Correspondent Š2006 Bollyvista.com |
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Aamir Khan |
Pavan: Your character is not studying at the university but does not want to go away from the atmosphere. How did you research for that and can you relate to that?
Aamir: He is in fact studying there but keeps taking different courses and then changes to something else but doesn't want to leave. He just wants to keep studying and find excuses to stay on. How did I research that? I really didn't need to research that because I have been a student myself so playing a student was not something I had to research really.
Adarsh (from India): Were any of the attributes that were in the characters of Rang De Basanti in the character of Aamir Khan in his own college days?
Aamir: (Laughs) I've been asked this question so many times you know for so many of the characters I've played. Is Bhuwan ('Lagaan') like me? Is Akash ('Dil Chahta Hai') like me? Is ACP Rathod ('Sarfarosh') like me? I have no idea! It's so difficult to answer that, I guess there is a bit of me in all the characters and a bit of all the characters in me. That's the best way I can put it.
Harman (from the UK):Did you have to undergo training for the Punjabi accent?
Aamir: I was worried about the accent part of it because I am not from the North, not only am I not Punjabi but I am not from the North so I have not spent a lot of time with Punjabi speaking people. So I had to be really careful about it. I had a person called Prakash helping me and he was really good, he was actually meant to help Alice (Patten) with her Hindi but I think I used him more than she did! (Laughs)
Pablo: What kind of things did he help you with? I'm a Punjabi so it's very interesting to know!
Aamir: He took my lines, played with them a bit and said them in his own way. I would listen very carefully to the way he would pronounce certain words. He is from the North so he would also give me a few lines that Punjabi boys would say. For example, when my character is watching television and there is FTV on, these models are walking the ramp and the line, "Oi Kake, kamal da leg piece hai yaar" is a phrase that he cooked up and I just cracked up laughing. He gave me little phrases here and there and little words that added the flavour.
Sandeep (from the UK):Do you feel that the youth of India today are losing their historical ties with the heroes of the past? And was this one of the attempts of the film to address this in a contemporary setting?
Aamir: It will be a sweeping statement on my part if I say all the youth have lost touch with their past. I think a lot of the youth is very responsible and aware of what has happened in our past and what our forefathers have sacrificed. So a lot of the youth is very aware but certainly there is a lot of the youth whom are not aware and have moved on and have taken things quite lightly when regarding social issues. So the film without really preaching is trying to say, listen society, actually not only our society, it is for people all over the world. It is a universal thought, no matter where you live you have to be responsible to a certain extent about what is happening around you in society. If something has to be solved, all of us have to roll up our sleeves and get to it as opposed to just sitting, watching and blaming. That's the core of the film. |
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