With a successful 37-year run since he made his industry debut with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988), Aamir Khan has established his place among the actors who have been most instrumental in creating the identity of Bollywood. The first Khan to breach the age of 60, Aamir, ahead of the big day on March 14, celebrated in the company of the media, giving them a glimpse of his life behind the cameras. 

With Aamir’s ‘Khan’ contemporaries Shah Rukh and Salman set to hit the milestone only months after him, we open the conversation asking him how it feels to be the first from the trio to turn 60. “There have been times when I have mistakenly called 30-somethings ‘uncles’,” he chuckles, adding, “Truly, I don’t feel any different. I feel like an 18-year-old.”