Aamir Khan Recalls Career Going 'Down The Drain' After Back-To-Back Flops: I Used To Come Home And Cry

Aamir Khan made a grand debut with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. Although it turned him into an overnight star and brought him many offers, none of the directors he actually wanted to work with approached him. He recalled signing 8–9 films because he felt other actors were doing 30–40. However, once the shoots began, he realised he wasn’t built to juggle multiple films. Aamir Khan Recalls Career Going 'Down The Drain'At the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2025, he recalled the difficult phase and said, “I realised in the first 6-8 months of working in these films that 3 things are very crucial in every film; the script, the director and the producer. Until these 3 are ticked off, I realised I won't do a film again. I was very unhappy with the work I was doing.

In the first couple of years in my career as an actor, after QSQT, I was not happy with the projects. My sensibility did not match the people I was working with. To cut a long story short, these films started releasing eventually, and they started bombing. Ek flop hui, dusri flop hui, teesri flop hui (One flopped, then another flopped, then a third one too). I was labelled ‘one film wonder,’ and rightly so.” Aamir added, “Those 3-4 films which had not done well brought me to the situation, and the remaining 5-6 films which I was working on… I knew how bad they were! I was like, ‘I am sunk! My career is going to go down the drain in this manner!’ I used to come home in the evening and cry. I swore to myself that never again will I compromise with my work.”Mr Perfectionist was last seen in Sitaare Zameen Par. He will be next seen in a biopic on Dadasaheb Phalke and a superhero film with Lokesh Kanagraj.