Orator: Amir Khan Interviewer: Zainab
For A Better India
Hello everyone. I am Zainab Salbiand. I greatest have the honor of being on stage with India’s biggest movie star, Aamir Khan. I mean we are talking beyond the actions of movies of James Bond and Daniel Craig. We are talking beyond the romances of Richard Gere. We are talking beyond the charms of George Clooney, we are talking ladies and gentlemen, above and beyond, all of that. A man who has been acting since the age of nine, who has conquered the hearts of six hundred million, yes, six hundred million Indians. This is half of the Indian Population. This man has done it. Unbelievable!
And in 2012, he surprises
India, he surprises the world, with launching a new TV talk show, Satyamev
Jate, that tackles social issues, and taboos heads-on, I mean you just put yourself
out there.
What inspired you to do that?
Amir Khan: Well, a big good evening
to everyone here. I think it started somewhere when I was a very small child
and it began with my mother, I think. Ahh, my mother has been a big influence on me and uh, I’ll an
incident of my life which stayed with me all along and that is I used to play a
lot of tennis when I was a kid and competitive tennis, you know, state level,
national level. I was pretty good at that time and she knew how anxious I was
about the game, how much I loved the game. And every time I had a match, she’d
be waiting for me to come home and when I would come home, she’d ask me: “Did
you win, did you lose?” usually I would win, so my answer would be I won. And
then after about five minutes, the first time she did it, it really shook me.
After about five minutes, she’d come to me and say: “You know the boy who lost
to you today, he would have reached home about now and his mom would have asked
him the same question and he would have said, he lost, so his mother must be
feeling really bad right now.” And the first time she said that to me, it like hit
me. I mean her ability to think for another, a mother she’s never seen, never
met, really hit home to me. I don’t think she was meaning to tell me or teach
me anything, that is just how she is and I think a lot of what I am, it is the
result of her. Uh, I think the second person who’s had been a big influence
on me, is my friend Satyajit Bhatkal. 3
The rest of the speech was not that
much interesting.
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