Aamir Khan still hasn’t been able to get over the failure of his 2022 film, Advait Chandan’s Laal Singh Chaddha, an official remake of Tom Hanks-starrer 1994 Hollywood film Forrest Gump. At the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) in Australia, Aamir recalled how that setback was very different from the one that came before that — Vijay Krishna Acharya’s 2018 period action adventure Thugs of Hindostan.
Aamir Khan ‘wasn’t surprised’ when Thugs of Hindostan flopped
“When Thugs didn’t do well, I wasn’t surprised because I didn’t like it. So, the audience and I were on the same side. Though I was sad because so much effort was put into it. Adi (Aditya Chopra) had put in so much money. He’s a great producer. He’d done so much for the film. And of course, we were all disappointed. But it was like an accident I could see happening in slow motion. But with Laal Singh Chaddha, I thought it’s a very nice film. It’s still a very good film,” Aamir confessed.
