Aamir Khan shares views on ‘The Art of Acting' at WAVES 2025

Mumbai, May 3: Master actor-creator Aamir Khan won many a heart with his down-to-earth tips on ‘The Art of Acting’ given from the Creatosphere stage in WAVES 2025 on Saturday.

The practical advice came from his years of experience in film-making. “I am not a trained actor. I wanted to go to the National School of Drama, but couldn't. I have picked up tips on the way, which work for me," he said.

Speaking about the future of film-making, Aamir Khan said, that AI technology has enabled films to be shot without the actor in the scene! AI and technology is capable of adding the Actor later in the scene.

"The first and foremost task for an actor is to get into the mind of the character," he said.

Aamir Khan said he spends a lot of time with scripts. "I read the script again and again. If the script is good, you will understand the character, its physicality, attitude will all come from it," he said.

He said that the discussions on the character and story with the director also gives an idea.

Briefing about his hard-working nature, Khan revealed that he has a weak memory and "I hand-write dialogues. I take up the difficult scenes first."

"The dialogues must be by heart. On first day, I just work on it. I do it every day for 3-4 months, and then it gets into me. The dialogues have to become yours. You have to own it. When it was written it was the script-writer’s. It later becomes yours. When you repeat the same line, you realize, you can do it many a way," he said.

He said that the difficult task for actors was to repeat and go for retake of scenes with same emotional intensity every day.

“The more honest you are, the better you will perform," he advised the budding actors.

About his practice on scenes, Aamir Khan said he visualise scenes before giving shots. "I never look into mirror while practicing scenes," he said.

He further said that ‘Taare Zameen Par’ was his all time favourite movie as it taught many parents to be patient with their children, support them and be empathetic with their little ones.