"I'M ENVIOUS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITIES"

Aamir Khan is not sure if his childhood stories will make for very interesting reading, but Nishi Prem convinces him that since his relationship with the media is only very recent and new, every little nugget of information about him is consumed with relish. So after a brief conversation on Ghajini, Aamir Khan goes down memory lane for our readers, trying to dig out some of his earliest memories. Things that moved him, saddened him, changed him…And mind you, this is only the first part of the interview. There’s more to come in the following month. Aamir Khan is sleepless and tired, darting from pillar to post, trying to keep pace with his upturned schedule post the 26/11 attacks. Ghajini is on release. Life calls even though the actor is “still not completely over the shock and sadness”. We are talking to Aamir as his car cruises through the peak hour week day traffic. He looks a bit lost and disoriented as he peers outside the window in between our conversation. “I haven’t slept the whole of last night and I don’t know when I will finish off even today.” Not the perfect day for an interview but he respects deadlines, his own, and yours too. We finish one part of the Q and A in between long, withdrawn silences from Aamir. Till he smiles, “My mind is not working anymore. I am just blank.” The next day he’s shooting in the far flung outskirts of Mumbai. A place called Kanheri caves. He’s shooting for the Incredible India campaign. Slept only for a couple of hours, he says, but we manage to complete our interview. …Not so easy is it, as it all seems from the other side?