Aamir Khan explains why he cried after watching Katti Batti

Aamir Khan reacts to all the noise about why he cries at the movies; reveals how a recent film took him back to an intense chapter in his life

Aamir Khan was recently a top trending topic on Twitter. Not because of a film or his talk show that he usually trends for, but because he cried at two back-to-back film screenings — Salman Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Kangana Ranaut's upcoming Katti Batti. Unaffected by the jokes and memes, the actor says that he is not afraid to show his emotional side, and in fact, had a good laugh at all the tweets.



"I read all the jokes (on ). I was reading them and laughing. I don’t remember the jokes now, but there were some really good ones. I quite enjoyed all the attention," says the actor, speaking to us from Amritsar, on his way to Ludhiana, where he is shooting for his film Dangal. The network is not favourable, and we keep getting disconnected. It’s not his fault, but the actor is profusely apologetic.







The big, brown towel that he walked out wiping his tears with after watching Bajrangi Bhaijaan was quite the target of Twitterati, but Khan says that he had no other option. "When I started watching the film, I didn’t have a towel or anything. But I got very emotional in the second half, so I asked my boy to get me something, and he got me that," he laughs.

Aamir Khan was seen wiping his tears with a towel after watching Salman Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan. He was also spotted crying after watching Imran Khan-Kangana Ranaut-starrer Katti Batti. (Photo: Yogen Shah)

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Aamir Khan exiting theatre after watching Salman Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The actor got very emotional and was seen wiping his tears.



Not every actor would be comfortable being in the midst of flashbulbs, crying and wiping tears, but the 50-year-old says that he had no issues being photographed like that. "Why should I hide what kind of a person I am... I’m a highly emotional person and I’m not afraid to show it," he says.







The climax of Bajrangi Bhaijaan moved many to tears, but what touched him so much about Katti Batti — his nephew Imran Khan’s upcoming romantic film — we ask, and Khan reveals that it reminded him of his own life. "It’s an extremely emotional and moving story about the beliefs one has in love and the extent to which one goes for those beliefs. It reminded me of moments from my own life. I am an obsessive kind of an emotional ... I am a sucker for Mills & Boon stories. The film reminded me of moments that I have been through that were highly romantic, intense and obsessive," he says.



However, he does not tell us which part of his life or who he is referring to. "We should not go into that. Let’s not talk about my personal life," he says. Since he is talking about the past, is he referring to his former wife ? "No, no," he laughs.

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