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Amid the war of words between the three Khans - Aamir, Shah Rukh and Salman - the Ghajini star Aamir has declared that it is none other than superstar Amitabh Bachchan who is still the number one in Bollywood.
“For me Amitabh Bachchan is No 1. Do Lata Mangeshkar, Sachin Tendulkar and Amitabh Bachchan say they are number one? No one who sits on the top needs to say he is number one. Others keep claiming to be there,” said Aamir. Recently, Shah Rukh sparked a controversy by proclaiming himself the biggest brand and saying there cannot be any competition with him. Commenting on that Aamir said: “I don’t believe in competitions with others. I only compete with myself.”After a phase of cold war with his contemporary Shah Rukh, Aamir says he can’t dare to fight with him.”Do you think I could dare to fight with Shah Rukh. He is a good friend and so I can’t fight with him. I respect him a lot,” said Aamir, who was in capital over the weekend to promote his forthcoming film Ghajini.
The actor, who was is town giving his fans the Ghajini cut at an event, was in a jovial mood but tried his best to avoid queries about his cold war with Shah Rukh.He joked that by turning into a barber for a day, he was even promoting Shah Rukh’s next venture Billo Barber.His antics did not just end at that.Aamir’s forthcoming ventures is titled Three Idiots and the actor said the title should be rightfully given to the three Khans of Bollywood - including himself, Shah Rukh and Salman.“My forthcoming film after Ghajini is Rajkumar Hirani’s Three Idiots and I play the character of an idiot with R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi. But I think Shah Rukh, Salman and I are truly the three idiots of Bollywood,” Aamir said.He also cast a dig at Salman when he asked the crowd whether they want him to flaunt his body that he has toned up especially for Ghajini.”Who wants to see my eight packs?” he asked. But when there was a loud “Yes, we want to” from the audience, Aamir said: “Only Salman can show his packs. I can’t do it. It’s not my cup of tea.”
All those following the proceedings in Bollywood know that A R Murugadoss is the director of Aamir Khan’s Christmas release, Ghajini. He was also the director of the original Tamil version of Ghajini, which was a blockbuster down south and as a result the intelligent Aamir Khan agreed to keep Murugadoss on as the director of its Hindi remake too. There is a buzz that director Murugadoss was very nervous at the time when Aamir Khan was to watch the final rough cut of the film. The reason being that Aamir Khan being a perfectionist is not easily satisfied and Murugadoss was not sure how the film had turned out to be and whether the unedited version of the film would please the actor or not. The director however heaved a sigh of relief when (after watching the rough cut) Aamir passed the film suggesting a few changes here and there, which included a few re–shoots too. Needless to add that Murugadoss was highly pleased to have passed the acid test, knowing fully well the consequences (remember Amol Gupte in TZP?) if his efforts had not pleased the actor perfectionist, and now director perfectionist too! Well, we have full faith in Aamir Khan’s judgment and it appears that we have another excellent film in the form of Ghajini, after the superlative Taare Zameen Par!
