Aryan Khan Reveals He Made Film With Shah Rukh Khan, Suhana; Learnt VFX When He Was 14

Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan, recently made his directorial debut with The Ba***ds Of Bollywood on Netflix. In a recent interview with Variety, he revealed that he was always drawn to filmmaking over acting, as it gave him more control over the project. He also revealed how Shah Rukh Khan influenced his direction, and that he was experimenting with VFX as a 10-year-old.

Aryan Khan said, “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve preferred telling stories. I always felt I had a lot of things to say, and I just feel I could tell it in a different and interesting way. I just felt there’s more control behind the camera. And, it’s simply, you enjoy it more.”

He explained, “It’s something you love more. And I feel if you do something that you love, you always

do a better job. And it stops being a job after a point, you look forward to it every day, and it’s what you want to do.”

Shah Rukh Khan influenced his son’s interest. Aryan said, “My father himself is extremely in-depth about the aspects of filmmaking, whether it is VFX, whether it is lighting, camera work, whatever. And ever since I was a kid, he would show me this – ‘You don’t actually get shot. This is how it happens.’”

“Or, how do you make a plane fly through the sky without actually making a plane fly? And all of that was, obviously, it’s like magic to a child,” he recalled. Aryan mentioned that by the time he was 10 or 11 years old, he was doing VFX work on the iMovie app and editing on Final Cut Pro.

Aryan was joined by Bilal Siddiqi and Manav Chauhan for the interview. Bilal and Manav are the co-creators of The Ba***ds of Bollywood. Aryan revealed that he has been making short films with Bilal and Manav since the trio was 14-15 years old.

“We wrote one during lockdown as well, which we just shot at home because we had two years of not much to do. And we shot it with my sister [Suhana Khan] and my dad, and I was just the DOP on that one,” Aryan shared.

He mentioned, “So that’s how we actually got started. We were just jamming on multiple different things, thinking of storylines, plots, and we thought we should do it properly, and do it on a larger scale.” Manav even revealed that Aryan Khan is a “great dialogue writer”, who eventually stepped into direction.