Aamir Khan on 'Lagaan': Karan Johar, Aditya Chopra advised not to shoot in single schedule

Aamir Khan

In the two decades since its release, Lagaan has earned a place among the finest films of Indian cinema. The actor believes that the lion’s share of the credit goes to former wife Reena Dutta. “The one thing that has remained with me is the way Reena handled the film. I told her one night that I would need her help in producing the film. She said, ‘I don’t know anything about filmmaking. How will I help you?’ But then, she went on to meet producers to understand [what the job entails], cracked it and produced Lagaan as if she was a veteran. Till date, I wonder how a person, belonging to another field, came and took complete control over the project.”

Karan Johar and Aditya Chopra

The sports drama became the third Indian film to be nominated at the Oscars for the Best Foreign Language Feature Film. “I was disappointed that we lost. A lot of people then asked me what I could’ve done differently so that Lagaan could have won at the Oscars. But they fail to appreciate that the members in the foreign language committee loved our film, which is why it was among the top five nominees. That means nothing was wrong with our film.”

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