Imran Khan opened up about hitting a low in 2016, a year after his last film Katti Batti released and failed at the box office. Imran has been away from the limelight for eight years now. He last shared the screen with Kangana Ranaut in Katti Batti. The film’s failure impacted Imran’s career choices. In a new interview, Imran spoke about how he went into a shell after his films flopped and he began looking at his contemporaries career choices to see where he stands.
Speaking with Vogue India, he said, “When Katti Batti flopped, I wanted to understand some things, so I began working backwards. What had been the biggest hits of the last two or three years? What were the films that had brought my contemporaries success? Do I like those films? Would I have said yes had they been offered to me? The answer was always no. And that clarified something for me. What I actually wanted was for the films I was in to be successful.”
A year after Katti Batti released, Imran said that he hit a low and felt broken inside. “I hit a low in 2016 where I felt broken inside. Luckily, I was working in an industry that had rewarded me financially, so by the time I was 30, I didn’t have to worry about money,” he recalled. “At that point, it wasn’t my career because I wasn’t excited by it enough to want to work hard for it,” he added.
At the time, he had embraced fatherhood and decided to focus on his daughter. “I had recently become a father and thought, ‘This is valuable. This is something I take seriously.’ I wanted to be the best version of myself for Imara. I decided it was no longer my job to be an actor. Now, I had to fix myself; be at my healthiest and strongest for my daughter,” Imran said.
The actor is now planning to make his acting comeback but has not announced a project yet.
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