Here, I have uploaded my pictures from the interview in Singapore I had with CNN about my upcoming movie, A Different Love Story, which comes out worldwide on Diwali. Also, here is a preview of the interview that will be airing in all BestBuy stores in Mumbai and New Delhi, so you don't have to buy a TV to watch the interview:
Cole: "Have you enjoyed your stay here in Singapore so far?"
Khan: "It's been great! Of course, I already knew that everyone here is a fan of me, so I was not surprised when people were herding to me to get my autograph."
Cole: "Great! So in your upcoming film, who are the main characters?"
Khan: "There is no such thing as a main character, unless I'm in the movie. Therefore, I am the main character in A Different Love Story."
Cole: "I heard form a different source that you struggled to play your part. Is this true?"
Khan: "Most definitely! Out of the 16 years I've been acting, this was the hardest role I had to play. It's very different from your typical Bollywood movie."
Cole: "Okay then, why don't you tell us what the movie is about."
Khan: "Sure. My character, Kumar Metha, is a young twenty two year old man who just finished his courses in computer science at the Indian Institution of Technology in New Delhi. He is on break, and is in search for a job in Mumbai, where he and his family are from. For the past forty-five days, he has been searching and searching for a job, and his parents, Gopal and Geetha Metha, are getting worried. He needs to get married soon before it is too late. On the forty-sixth day, he goes to Patel Constructions for a job interview. He enters, and at that moment, the wind comes bursting through the door in slow motion, and there at the reception desk, is a mesmerizing girl with luscious dark brown hair and a wheatish complexion, wearing a salwar-kameez. He notices her, and a romantic Indian song starts playing in the background. She ignores him, and in fact, does not even notice him. He says to himself, 'What a great figure!', and snap! Kumar and a bunch of random dancers are at a wedding reception dancing to Bhangra music, and Kumar starts mouthing the words to the first of five songs in the movie. The songs ends, and movie comes back to reality. He tries to find his way up the forty-eight story skyscraper in the middle of Dharavi. He finally makes it to the floor where Mr. Patel’s office is, but he is not there. He asks Mr. Patel's co-worker, Madhu, where he was and he said, 'He ate too much tandoori chicken at his friend’s wedding'. Kumar, gloomily, walks back down and accidentally bumps into the girl he saw earlier, and they both fall to the ground, one on top of the other. Both of them hurry to get up, and they both say sorry to each other. They go their separate ways, but each one turns around when the other is not looking and they check each other out, and snap! They both end up in the Alps of Italy, dancing in the snow, and mouthing to the words of a song, yet again! The story keeps going, but you will have to go to the theaters to get the rest of the story."
Cole: "Interesting. So what is different about this story, hence the title, A Different Love Story?"
Khan: "Well'', everything I just said basically summarizes "different."
Cole: You you like to go more in depth?
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[Full interview comes on air March 31, 2011]
