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Bollywood Superstar Aamir Khan Reveals He “Secretly Quit Filmmaking, But No One Noticed”


The Lagaan star said his children persuaded him to go back to work after the pandemic.

Aamir Khan has revealed that he secretly quit his stellar career for a period during the Covid pandemic, in order to spend more time with his loved ones. However, Khan added that nobody outside his family really noticed because of the major hiatus in the movie industry caused by the global pandemic – “no-one knew about it” – before his children persuaded him to go back to work. The pair separated in 2021 after 16 years of marriage, but Khan told the BBC he was determined Rao would helm the project:

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