Imran Khan Calls Turning Down More Money Than Accepting A ‘Khandaani Bimaari’; Says ‘Aamir Khan Or My Uncle Mansoor…’

Bollywood actor Imran Khan had disappeared from the silver screen after the release of his last movie Katti Batti in 2015. The actor never made any public appearances for several years. Now, due to his personal and professional life, he is grabbing all the attention. While his upcoming project has not been announced yet, Imran seems to be excited for his grand comeback to the entertainment world. 

While comparing himself with his uncles Aamir Khan and Mansoor Khan, he stated that it is their family's tendency to focus only on the movie business. In an interview with Zoom, Imran said “From the moment I entered the business with Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na, I have turned down more money than I have accepted. You can show up at events and they will pay you. You can walk the ramps and they will pay you. You go to the launch of a shopping mall, you cut a ribbon and they pay you. I never accepted those things. The number of people who would call and say come and cut a ribbon and take so much money. For me, I would always tend to pull away from those things. Truthfully, I have turned down more money than I have accepted.”

“That is kind of a family tendency — Aamir or my uncle Mansoor. Mansoor, famously after making four films, left the city, moved to Coonoor. I could say, yeh thodi khandaani bimaari hai (it’s a family ailment). A little bit of disengagement and disenchantment with which a lot of people hold such value, for us, in my family that is what I have seen and that is how I have been raised that don’t put stock in these things. This comes and goes like a tide. You don’t put your stock in that. You put stock in your craft, you put stock in your film. Film is forever,” he added.