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- The world knows him best as the filmmaker who gave himself, and his cousin Aamir Khan, a stupendous break through the film, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. But Mansoor Khan insists he was only ‘passing through’ filmmaking; he always preferred to experiment with electronic circuits in his basement and dreamt of escaping the city life to live in a farm.
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Mansoor Khan's last two films; Akele Hum Akele Tum (1995) and Josh (2000) were moderately successful. In 2008, he made a comeback, albeit as a producer, and has co-produced the movie Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na along with Aamir Khan , which marked the debut of his nephew Imran Khan .
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“I would not say it was a very sudden decision. It was a deep-rooted desire from my childhood days , we had land near Panvel and I just felt deeply connected , when my sister and I would go and plant bhindiwith our bare hands. I went abroad to Cornell and then to MIT but just wasn’t happy. My father that time suggested why don’t you try your hand i...
“While I was making films, I used to come to Coonoor for shoots and my nephew Imran (Khan) was studying here in Boarding school. That’s when I decided this place gave me peace, this is where I wanted to be. That’s why in the year 2003-4 I started coming here for longer spells. We already had a family house in Coonoor but I started spending more tim...
“That moment when my wife Tina and our kids decided to move to Coonoor with me was my ‘THIS IS IT’ moment. It felt real. The fact that my family was going to join me here made it real. Then we started reading up on cheese making on the internet , it was important for me that Tina had something to do, which she liked and before we knew it the cheese...
“I do feel the urgency now to take what I wrote in this book forward maybe as a feature film. But this isn’t the kind of film I would want should be part of the 100 crore club. I need to work on the script I need to drub the language and graphs – approach it in an entirely different way. That’s the challenge. I talk in an intuitive way, I need to w...
Nov 3, 2017 · Filmmaker Mansoor Khan turned his back to the movies, to live a simple life off the land. He has another passion now -- Mother Earth.
Dec 2, 2016 · Far from being interested in film-making, Mansoor Khan was never even fond of Hindi cinema as a child. Even though he was born into a house frequented by some of the most popular film stars...
Khan himself chose not to slave it with the hacks, gracefully retiring after three more films — Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander, Akele Hum Akele Tum and Josh — to take up organic cheese farming, a new trend he is backing in an attempt to break the dependence on an agriculture that he calls “taking steroids”.
Apr 29, 2018 · qayamat se qayamant tak. Once Mansoor Khan took over the film from his father Nasir Hussain, he introduced plenty of changes to make the script more contemporary. One of the biggest arguments they had was over killing the protagonists at the end.
