The Year 1988 saw a small movie "Qayamat se Qayamat tak" bring in a new trend in bollywood. Romantic love stories. In the string of loud action movies of the 80s, this movie with debutante Aamir khan and Juhi Chawla in the lead roles not only started the trend of romance again, also changed the scene of music. While Disco was ruling in the 80s, it bought melody back into reckoning. "Papa kehte hain bada naam karega" saw Aamir khan singing his way into the hearts of teenage girls throughout India. They called him the new chocolate hero, the romantic boy next door. The boy had made a sensational debut. The run away success of the movie made Aamir khan an instant star. However, there have been many one film wonders in Bollywood. Could this boy survive after the huge success of his debut movie.Success in Cinema is not only confined to the debut you make. It depends on the talent, the choices you make and unfortunately many times on luck.
The next couple of years saw Aamir khan face a number of failures. Failures which marked a question mark if his debut was a fluke, questions on his stardom, on his decision making and ultimately his future in bollwood. A series of bad choices made films like Jawani Zindabad, Deewana Mujsa Nahin, Isi ka naam Zindagi, Love Love Love, Daulat ki Jung, Tum Mere ho, Awwal Number which didn't do well at the box office. They were wrong choices and deservingly the films didn't work at the box office.
If you are a fan of Aamir khan, I would certainly recommend you to watch all the above movies too which were not great movies, which didn't work at the box office, for the simple reason to understand his journey. When you are aware of the bad, you can identify the good. We all do mistakes, however how we take a lesson out of it and emerge thereafter is the great thing. Aamir khan, the actor was sincere in all the above movies too, however the scripts were shoddy, direction half baked. Aamir khan has himself admitted in his interviews that these failures tought him the most in his stint in Bollywood.
The greatest of the stars had faced a slump in their career. Most of them sink with the slump, while few rise from the slump like a Phoenix. Which way would Aamir khan go?
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