Aamir Khan telling about Sachin in his interview
Sachin Tendulkar actually came to see the body, to check whether the look in the posters is real?
No, no, he came to see the film. He wanted to see the film. It was a media thing that he wanted to see the body, that he asked if it is real, aisa kuch nahi hua tha.
How long have you known him?
It goes as far back as the shooting of Andaz Apna Apna. It was the mahurat shot, and Sachin was invited to give the clap. Before that, I’d seen him once at Brabourne stadium, when he was doing net practice with the team, but he hadn’t been selected. I was talking to Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar and I asked them, who’s that kid, he’s playing really well yaar. They said he’s a young guy, Tendulkar, we’re trying him out. I said, just as a layman, yeh toh kamaal ka khel raha hai, he’s middling the ball perfectly, he should be in the team! I didn’t know then that he would actually be selected very soon after. Over time, we’ve met more often and kept in touch.
You like his batting, he likes your movies?
Actually we don’t talk much about our careers when we meet. But once, I got what I count as the biggest compliment from him. We were at a party where the Australian team was there – McGrath, Shane Warne, Brett Lee and so on. He was introducing me to them, and he said to them, you know how I am on the pitch, that’s him, on screen! I was very happy to hear that (and that has an ear to ear grin accompanying it).
You’ve spoken of his predicting bowlers’ strategies during the last IPL, when you watched matches with him.
Yes, he’s amazing. But even I made a good prediction recently! In the previous Test match, when things were balanced evenly early on the last day, I had this feeling that he would score a century, and we would win. So I texted (Sachin’s wife) Anjali, saying, aaj Sachin ki century hone wali hai, hum jeetne waale hain. Ya, I should have texted him, but I have a superstition about this. Whenever I would text Sachin before a match, saying all the best or something like that, he would get out very quickly. Yeh teen-char baar ho gaya, and I said, yaar, main isko good luck wish karta hoon aur yeh out ho jaata hai. Now I’m not generally superstitious in life, but when it comes to cricket, I get superstitious. So I stopped texting him around matches, and told him why. So this time, when I got that feeling, I was about to text him – and then I stopped, I said yeh phir out ho jayega, and texted Anjali instead. After the match, after seeing it, Sachin texted me back. That’s when I told him, see, I’m not so bad in my predictions either!
No, no, he came to see the film. He wanted to see the film. It was a media thing that he wanted to see the body, that he asked if it is real, aisa kuch nahi hua tha.
How long have you known him?
It goes as far back as the shooting of Andaz Apna Apna. It was the mahurat shot, and Sachin was invited to give the clap. Before that, I’d seen him once at Brabourne stadium, when he was doing net practice with the team, but he hadn’t been selected. I was talking to Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar and I asked them, who’s that kid, he’s playing really well yaar. They said he’s a young guy, Tendulkar, we’re trying him out. I said, just as a layman, yeh toh kamaal ka khel raha hai, he’s middling the ball perfectly, he should be in the team! I didn’t know then that he would actually be selected very soon after. Over time, we’ve met more often and kept in touch.
You like his batting, he likes your movies?
Actually we don’t talk much about our careers when we meet. But once, I got what I count as the biggest compliment from him. We were at a party where the Australian team was there – McGrath, Shane Warne, Brett Lee and so on. He was introducing me to them, and he said to them, you know how I am on the pitch, that’s him, on screen! I was very happy to hear that (and that has an ear to ear grin accompanying it).
You’ve spoken of his predicting bowlers’ strategies during the last IPL, when you watched matches with him.
Yes, he’s amazing. But even I made a good prediction recently! In the previous Test match, when things were balanced evenly early on the last day, I had this feeling that he would score a century, and we would win. So I texted (Sachin’s wife) Anjali, saying, aaj Sachin ki century hone wali hai, hum jeetne waale hain. Ya, I should have texted him, but I have a superstition about this. Whenever I would text Sachin before a match, saying all the best or something like that, he would get out very quickly. Yeh teen-char baar ho gaya, and I said, yaar, main isko good luck wish karta hoon aur yeh out ho jaata hai. Now I’m not generally superstitious in life, but when it comes to cricket, I get superstitious. So I stopped texting him around matches, and told him why. So this time, when I got that feeling, I was about to text him – and then I stopped, I said yeh phir out ho jayega, and texted Anjali instead. After the match, after seeing it, Sachin texted me back. That’s when I told him, see, I’m not so bad in my predictions either!
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