When A Teetotaller Aamir Khan Ended Up Drinking A Bottle Of Vodka For This Movie!

To this, the actor replied saying, “Well, what I did for that simply was… since I’m a teetotaller and until then I had never drunk, I decided to do that scene, you know, under the influence of alcohol. Well, I ended up drinking a bottle of vodka (giggles). I wasn’t acting well. I told my director, I said, ‘look I’m not confident of playing this scene and I don’t know what it’s like to be drunk and I’m quite sure I’ll mess it up. So let me actually consume alcohol, so that the physicality is taken care of, you know, the way my eyes move, the way the body language happens, a bit of a speech and I have to be with the emotion, and I have to know my lines. But I’ll get this external help which I can use. So that is why I did that.”
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The fans who have seen ‘Raja Hindustani’ would acknowledge that indeed the scene where Aamir gets drunk and (emotionally) bursts out in anger on Karisma Kapoor, who plays the role of his wife, is one of the most intense ones where the actor stole the show hands down with his power-packed performance.
Later, Aamir went on to win the prestigious Filmfare Award for Best Actor (first time) for his performance in ‘Raja Hindustani’. But, sadly he didn’t attend the ceremony that year and never made it to any future ones also, as he decided to never attend them.
Check out the full interview of Aamir Khan below: