Saturday, March 1, 2008

Aamir Khan and his Six pack or Twelve Pack

Aamir Khan, the perfectionist actor of bollywood who plays the lead role in the Hindi remake of ‘Ghajini’, has acquired a perfect six pack abs in flat twenty one days to complete a dance number of the film which was earlier shot in October in South Africa. Aamir Khan had to undergo rigorous training and dieting to achieve this seemingly miraculous figure as the choreographer Ahmed Khan felt that he was too plump looking in comparison to his South African look, and the dance number would look odd with two different looks of the Khan in it. Later, the dance number was completed at the Film City with Aamir Khan giving his four days to choreographer Ahmed Khan for doing this. Sources say that the dance number has turned out excellent and will be used as one of the highlights of the film during promotion campaign. Sources say that the dance number required Aamir Khan to flaunt his six pack abs and accordingly he had acquired it for the month long South African spell in October. But at that time, even after completing the song choreographer wanted to introduce some variations in it and had asked the Khan to give some extra time. Aamir Khan was already neck deep in his home production ‘Taare Zameen Par’ and so could not give the required time to re-shoot some portion and returned to India.

Now, after the release of his directorial venture ‘Taare Zameen Par’, when Aamir had time and wanted to shoot for the remaining portion of the dance sequence, choreographer Ahmed Khan felt that Aamir did not have the same physique and continuity of the number will be disturbed. Aamir did not insist on shooting and instead asked for three weeks to get back into shape and to everyone surprise he kept his promise. The film is a Hindi remake of Tamil super hit film ‘Ghajini’ being directed by Murugadass. While Aamir Khan is playing the main lead in the film, Asit, who had played the female lead in the original version, will depict the same character in this Hindi remake. Jiah Khan, the sexy bombshell of bollywood, also plays a pivotal character opposite Aamir Khan in the film. In any case, Aamir Khan’s perfectionist ways has paid him handsomely and the recent example of it was his home production ‘ Taare Zameen Par’. It may be recalled that the film was initially being directed by Amol Gupte but perfectionist Aamir was not satisfied with his direction and took over the reigns of direction in his own hands. The result was super sensitive and super cool film about a special child, appreciated by masses and classes alike, and winning Aamir several prizes as a director and actor. Perhaps perfectionist Aamir wants to make his ‘Ghajini’ too a super cool film …..and why not…..keep it up!!