No quitting: Bollywood's Aamir Khan wants to keep acting

Now, turning 60 in March, Khan, who lives in Mumbai, wants to "continue to act and produce for some time".

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Indian actor Aamir Khan poses for a portrait inside a hotel during an interview with AFP in London on December 3, 2024. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Bollywood superstar and filmmaker Aamir Khan considered quitting cinema for good after dominating the Indian film industry for more than four decades. Now, on the eve of turning 60 in March, Khan, who lives in Mumbai, wants to "continue to act and produce for some time". He also wants to use his company Aamir Khan Productions "as a platform to encourage new talent... whose sensibility is close to mine. And (who) want to tell stories which affect me." (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

2024-12-22 12:09:57

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Bollywood superstar and filmmaker Aamir Khan considered quitting cinema for good after dominating the Indian film industry for more than four decades.

"It was in the middle of Covid and I was... thinking of a lot of things, and I suddenly felt that I had spent all of my adult life in this magical world of cinema," Khan told AFP in London, draped in a heavy purple shawl and sporting a handlebar moustache.

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