The famous actor and producer is set to play a 55-year-old man in upcoming film, \u2018Dangal\u2019, however Khan confessed he wanted to play this character after he turned 60.<\/p>\n
Speaking of his hesitation he said, \u201cWhen I read the story I just loved it. This story made me laugh, cry as the script was very exciting and inspirational.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to do it but I was fickle minded that I have just done \u2018Dhoom 3\u2019 and \u2018PK\u2019 and for this film Nitesh (director) wanted to show me as a 55-year-old man which is closer to my reality (laughs) so, honestly I had that fear.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had the fear that today when I am still doing young roles why am I getting into this old man’s role…I had to gain weight and go for grey hair so I was scared about my future and audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had this thing in my mind that I will do this film after five-six years when I will be 60. I was scared that if I play an old man\u2019s role now then tactically it won\u2019t be right\u2026 Then I called Nitesh again and said I want to hear the story again. After that I decided to leave the logic behind and do the film.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u2018Dangal\u2019 is an autobiographical sports film about Mahavir Singh Phogat, a man who taught his daughters to wrestle, one of them being Geeta Phogat who was India\u2019s first female wrestler to win a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Her sister meanwhile, Babita Kumari, won silver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The famous actor and producer is set to play a 55-year-old man in upcoming film, \u2018Dangal\u2019, however Khan confessed he wanted to play this character after he turned 60. Speaking of his hesitation he said, \u201cWhen I read the story I just loved it. This story made me laugh, cry as the script was very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,54,106,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desi_masala","category-desixpress","category-film","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}