Aamir recalls working as AD

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan recently opened up about his early association with Sunny Deol. Revealing that he worked as an assistant director on two of the latter’s films, Manzil Manzil and Zabardast, before making his acting debut, Aamir recalled his AD days.

Aamir shared the lesser-known anecdote while appearing with Sunny Deol, Amitabh Bachchan and Preity Zinta while making a special appearance on the quiz reality show, Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 18. During an open question-and-answer session with the studio audience, Aamir was asked about his first experience of working with Sunny on Batwara 1947.

Recalling the time, Aamir said he was only 18 when he joined the film industry as an assistant director and first met Sunny while working on his films.

“Yeh bahut kam log jaante hai Sir shayad, ke jab maine career mein entry meri hui, mein as an assistant director aaya tha, toh first time jab main Sunny se mila tab main assistant director tha unki film mein. Manzil Manzil aur Zabardast, yeh do filme banrahi thi, Sir, joh mere chachajaan Nasir Hussain sahab banarahein thein and Sunny was the lead in both the films and I was the assistant director,” he said.

“Kareeb 3 saal maine as an assistant with Sunny kaam kiya. Main 18 saal ka tha, aur Sunny to bahut bade star thein to humlog bahut excited thein,” he added.