With Kisaan, Main Aurr Mrs Khanna and Do Knot Disturb releasing in 2009 and Season’s Greetings and Veer early next year, should we say you’re on a roll?
I want to be a part of the film industry and the process of filmmaking; it doesn’t matter in what capacity. I enjoy acting and hence these movies. But I also equally relish other roles in the filmmaking process like editing or working on a background score, which is where being a producer helps. Late next year, my directorial project should take off too.

The perception often borders on your career having hinged on your superstar brother Salman Khan’s.
There are only a handful of actors, like Salman, Aamir Khan or Shah Rukh Khan, who see success in their first or first few movies. Others take time and have to struggle to establish themselves in the industry. I naturally belong to the latter group. But I now sense a change in the industry’s perception.

But that perception also stems from the fact that we often see you co-starring with either Arbaaz Khan or Salman in films.
That is hardly intentional. I’m aware that such a perception exists, we are more wary of working together. In fact, even as producers, Arbaaz and I are often given multiple scripts to choose from. When we bounce it off Salman, he gets extra cautious because it is a home production and he would not like to do a film where he does not suit the role. And if Main Aurr Mrs Khanna needed a younger guy, I would have instead approached one of the new lot, like Ranbir Kapoor or Imran Khan. As actors, however, please also understand that we are often approached with scripts that require us to act together. If we like them, we take them up. I will also not deny that working with my brother allows me a comfort zone which I relish.

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