Second Coming Of Imran Khan

Back on screen after a paternity break, Imraan Khan's raring to return to his kind of cinema. He's staying as low profile as ever - and telling it like it is.

- Shweta Mehta Sen

I expected my interview with Imran Khan to be boring. The obvious. It’s what a lot of friends, colleagues and fan opinions had led me to believe. And his shyness on the day of our photoshoot only compounded this theory. He’s an articulate guy. He’ll speak his mind and not mince words – even if they aren’t the most flattering towards him — but you know he’s thought about every one of them while framing his sentences. That’s why he was no good when we tried playing a word association game with him on camera. For heaven’s sake, who takes 15 seconds to utter the first thing that comes to their mind when you say ‘man’? 

“I’m not surprised. He’s the guy whose idea of a party is having 5-6 people over, bonding over drinks and classic rock,” said a friend of his, whom I happen to know. The actor himself tells me that recently, he left a party without finishing his first drink because “there were too many people, and someone stepped on my shoe”.