Read also: Aamir Khan's follow-up to hit Indian movie 'Dangal' opens in China "My criteria in selecting a script involve not trying to estimate the audience's reaction, but determining whether the story touches him." "When I fall for the story is when I get drawn to a film script," Khan said. Khan, who was born in the western Indian city of Mumbai, where Bollywood studios are located, began his career as a child actor in the film Yaadon Ki Baaraat in 1973. Also, they have found that some local humor and jokes can be understood by people from different cultural backgrounds," Khan said, adding that art creators are the bonds that connect the world together, allowing people of different cultures to understand each other.
Through my work, quite a few foreign viewers start to know the sorrows and happiness of ordinary Indian people. "Many people get to know a certain country through watching their movies. Last year, his biographical sports film Dangal, inspired by the real journey of an Indian wrestler through a conservative landscape to turn his daughters into world-class athletes, made nearly 1.3 billion yuan ($188 million) in box office performance, marking the highest-grossing Indian film of all time in China.
Likewise, my interpretation of a stubborn, hard-bitten former wrestler in Dangal has made Chinese families aware about the great love of an Indian father for the daughter," the film star said. Though I was not involved in that period, the movie manages to send me back to the tragic times and generated great empathy in me with those victims. "For instance, I cried after watching an Italian movie on World War II.