MUMBAI: Aamir Khan is a megastar of Bollywood who is also known as a perfectionist and is awaiting the release of his much-anticipated movie ‘Laal Singh Chada’. The superstar turned 57 on a Monday, he celebrated his birthday with the media and in those interactions shared a lot of details about his personal life.
Aamir Khan, who made his Hindi film debut at the age of 18 in 1988 with 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak,' recently opened up about regretting not devoting enough time to his family, spirituality, religion, and alcoholism.
Aamir did suffer from an alcohol problem, he used to drink alcohol on occasion but has been completely sober for quite some time now.
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"I used to drink sometimes, but I don't anymore," the 'Laal Singh Chaddha' actor said in Hindi during a recent interview with News 18 India.
He further elaborated how his problem was different, “ Some people take two pegs and they are sorted. But I was never one of those who drank regularly. I used to drink on occasions, but whenever I did sit down to drink, I would down the entire bottle. And I felt that that was not okay. And when you are intoxicated, you do or say certain things which you later regret. Not that anything major has happened like that until now, but the fact that a person is no longer under their own control, that didn't sit well with me."
Aamir also opened up on the fact that he felt a lot of times that he did not spend enough time with his family and that is something he regrets.
"Somewhere I didn't shoulder my responsibilities. My parents, my siblings, Reena ji --my first wife, Kiran ji, Reena ji's parents, Kiran ji's parents, my children...all these people are very close to me. I was 18 when I joined the film industry and I got so absorbed, I wanted to learn so much and do so much. Today I realize that these people, who were so close to me...I couldn't give them my time the way I would want to."
Aamir said he considers himself spiritual and that religion is a difficult concept to escape from, especially if one is born and raised in India.
"Our country is like that. As a child, you grow up listening to the tales of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. It resides in us, you cannot escape it if you are an Indian. As far as I am concerned, I have not done anything actively which is spiritual in nature. But in my own way, I consider myself spiritual too,” he said.
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Credits: DNA
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