Nearly 10 years ago, Imran Khan’s last film, Katti Batti (2015), was released in cinemas. And nearly two years ago, the actor hinted at his comeback. Imran started with a bang with Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (2008) and followed it up with several interesting films. A few years after he stopped working in cinemas, netizens began remembering him and his films fondly. In an interview with Planet Bollywood, Imran opened up on this aspect and what made him put up an Instagram post, announcing his comeback. However, before doing so, an amusing development happened and Imran talked about it as well in this interview.
Imran Khan’s comeback almost went unnoticed: “I posted on Threads but nobody saw it”; reveals what made him return to films, “I saw a collage comprising my film posters with the text ‘Life was good when this guy was doing rom-coms’”
Imran Khan began by saying, “Any kind of creative person, whether you are a poet, sculptor or musician, has to also live a life. That is where the material comes from. That is where the thoughts and ideas come from. You need to live life and gather experiences. All of those experiences will then seed into your craft and then, into your art. I guess I had to take a certain amount of time, go through a journey and find a place where I felt I had an understanding of how I want to engage creatively. There should be that fire within me that pushes me towards doing something. I now have something inside that I want to share and communicate. I took as long as it took. In the past one year, I started feeling that itch. I felt let’s do something creative. A major part of the journey was significantly accelerated by the online fan community. Over the past year, people were making these memes. Once in a while, my friends would send me screenshots. I was not active on any of the social media accounts, but my friends would show me all these memes and posts. I remember seeing this one post which had a collage comprising posters of my films and featured text which said, ‘Life was good when this guy was doing rom-coms’.”
He continued, “As I started to read, hear and perceive more of those, I started feeling that many people out there are reaching out to me and at some point, I started feeling that if I didn’t acknowledge them and say ‘I hear you’, it would be very rude of me. Up until that point, things were one-sided. People were making memes and writing down comments. I felt it was rude of me to ignore it or not acknowledge it. I felt compelled to stick my head out and say, ‘Hi, guys! I hear you’. I made this post first on Thread but nobody goes on Threads, so nobody saw it (laughs). I took a screenshot of that Thread post and shared it on Instagram. Instagram exploded and people started messaging me. It was very much a case of online fandom reaching out to me. People started saying, ‘Where are you? We want to see you’. A major reason behind my decision to come back to the movies was the response to that.”
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