Aamir Khan praises ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ director Kathryn Bigelow

Aamir KhanKathryn Bigelow “Zero Dark Thirty” has impressed Indian actor-filmmaker Aamir Khan so much that he describes the Oscar winning director as “a brave woman”.

“She is a very brave woman to have made a film on such a politically sensitive and controversial topic. Not many people (even male filmmakers) would have the courage and conviction to do so,” Aamir said in a statement.

“Zero Dark Thirty” chronicles the decade-long hunt for Al Qaeda leader Osama after the September 2001 attacks and his death at the hands of the Navy SEAL Team 6 in Abbotabad, near Pakistan capital Islamabad, in May 2011.

Aamir admits she deserved to be nominated for the best director Oscar, but added: “I am a great admirer of Katheryn Bigelow’s work and feel that any filmmaker or director who is true to his/her craft should not take seriously the validation they do or don’t receive from any award committee and jury.”

Aamir himself tries to stay away from award shows.

“Fact is that I have no objections to film awards per se. I just feel that if I don’t value a particular film award, then I won’t attend it either. Apart from the national award, I don’t see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don’t trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away,” he said.

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11 Comments

  • Kathryn is a brave woman to make a movie like “zero dark thirty” and aamir khan is also a brave man to make and act in some non masala movies which does not gives gurantee of hit but later this movies not only became hit but was also applauded and acclaimed worldwide like “lagaan”,”taare zameen par”,”rang de basanti”,”fanaa”,”sarfarosh”,”3 idiots”,”peepli live” and many others.

  • Aamir khan value national award bcoz they r the most trusted and real awards and aamir is the only one among current superstar along with amitabh bachchan who has got “padma bhushan” which is way bigger honour and achievement in comparison to fixed award like filmfare,iifa,stardust etc.

  • why dont you give back all the filmfare awards then
    national awrds are fixed
    why saif won it for stupid acting in film like hum tum ?????????????????????????????

  • Directors/Producers/Actors of hollywood make movies on contoversial topics while Directors/Producers/Actors of bollywood like srk make movies and then create contoversy for publicity.lol

  • I also lost my trust about almost all awards including national award when master act of H.Ro in Guzaarish not get respect by almost all awards. Now i trust that H.Ro’s master performence in Guzaarish is itself award for all people who love film industries. So there is no bigger awards than being awards itself (eg. H.Ro in Guzaarish is award itself.) . So all awards are bakwaas including national award.

  • Someone is saying that national awards r most trusted award,for ur kind information,national awards r one of the most biased awards,for ex an actress like kiran kher won without having voice of other,saif won for hum-tum in 2004 n many more,these awards r dependent on choice of jury who bags maximum award for their films

  • ALL AWARD FUNCTIONS R FAKE AND NO REAL,EXCEPT NATIONAL AWARD AND OSCAR,SOMETIMES FATHERS PURCHASES THE AWARD FOR THIER SON AND SOMETIME JURY WILL GIVE AWARD TO HIS FAVORITE ACTOR.

  • Aamir Khan used to lust for awards himself till 1995. But case of sour grapes he banned them. National awards are also fixed and there is politics, favouritism in Padma awards too (he himself got Padma Bhushan because his family is politically connected, ancestor was Maulana Azad and Rajya Sabha member, 2007 Vice President nominee Najma Heptullah is his cousin!). With what face he talks of fairness? He even didn’t go to accept National Award for TZP and didn’t enter future films like Peepli Live in National Awards. Yet he claims he respects them. Fakest person ever!

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