Aamir Khan On Producing Awards Contender ‘Laapataa Ladies’ & How Young Indian Filmmakers Are Helping The Country “Move Beyond” Traditional Storytelling Conventions

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Aamir Khan, one of India’s biggest movie stars, is currently doing the international media rounds to support Laapataa Ladies (Lost Ladies), the latest flick he produced through his eponymous production house.

The Hindi film, which is directed by Kiran Rao, follows two brides, whose identities are hidden by an elaborate bridal head covering, who get mixed up on the eve of their wedding days, setting them on the paths of very different destinies from those they had envisaged.

Khan, who has starred in some of India’s most enduring big screen hits like 3 Idiots and Peepli Live, found the screenplay for Laapataa Ladies a few years back while serving on a screenplay competition jury in India.  “I thought it was a beautiful script and knew I wanted to make it into a film,” he told us during an interview in London where he hosted a series of screenings for awards voters. “I also knew Kiran [Rao] had been looking for a script to direct.” Laapataa Ladies is Rao’s second feature as a director and her first film in 13 years.

Her debut, Mumbai Diaries (2010), screened at the Toronto Film Festival and became a cult hit in India, finding acclaim with critics and the arthouse crowd.