Actor Imran Khan recently spoke about how he views competition and comparisons in the film industry. After making a return to acting, he shared that he has never believed in treating cinema as a competitive field.
In an interview on The Right Angle with Sonal Kalra, Season 3, produced by Gautam Thakker Films, the discussion focused on how actors are often compared to each other. During his earlier years in Bollywood, Imran was frequently compared to actors like Ranbir Kapoor.
Talking about this, Imran explained that he does not agree with the idea of creative competition. “I had never bought into the notion of creative competition. It again reduces cinema and our art form into some kind of a competitive sport and I don’t see that as doing full justice to the films that we make,” he said.
He further shared that films should not be judged only by numbers or comparisons. For him, the emotional impact of a film matters more than its measurable success. “Someone may be emotionally moved by a film, someone may not. That’s fine. But measuring it as a metric of numbers, I have never bought into that. I don’t really subscribe to that,” he added.
Imran also spoke about what motivated him to return to acting after a break. He said that social media and internet trends played a big role in bringing him back. Over the past few years, many fans shared memes and posts remembering his romantic comedy films and asking about him.
“It was the Internet. In the last couple of years, these memes started popping up about where is Imran, life was good when Imran was making romantic comedies and then I kind of felt like telling people I am here and I am doing good. And such appreciation kind of started to stir the creative part of me and I thought I would like to tell more stories,” he said.
For those who may not know, Imran recently made a brief appearance in the film Happy Patel, directed by Vir Das. He will next be seen in Adhoore Hum Adhoore Tum, directed by Danish Aslam and starring Bhumi Pednekar. The film is expected to release later this year, although the exact date has not been announced yet.