Aryan Khan opened up recently about how his father, Shah Rukh Khan used to tell him about the intricacies of filmmaking as a child which left an impact on Aryan’s mind. Aryan recently made his web-series directorial debut with The Ba***ds of Bollywood, which was backed by Shah Rukh’s Red Chillies Entertainment.
In an interview with Variety, Aryan said, “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve preferred telling stories. I always felt I had a lot of things to say, and I just feel I could tell it in a different and interesting way. I just felt there’s more control behind the camera. And, it’s simply that you enjoy it more. It’s something you love more. And I feel if you do something that you love, you always do a better job. And it stops being a job after a point, you look forward to it every day, and it’s what you want to do.”
He added, “My father himself is extremely in-depth about the aspects of filmmaking, whether it is VFX, whether it is lighting, camera work, whatever. And ever since I was a kid, he would show me this- ‘You don’t actually get shot. This is how it happens.’ Or, how do you make a plane fly through the sky without actually making a plane fly? And all of that was, obviously, it’s like magic to a child.”
Aryan spoke about his fascination with the medium and added, “We can do an action sequence. We can suddenly break your heart by showing a death and then suddenly become a rom-com. We can suddenly become different because there are so many different genres and that’s also because of the length that we have.”
Speaking about how The Ba***ds of Bollywood was designed, Aryan said, “The first three episodes are light-hearted, slowly build into the sadness. We built all the characters in the earlier phases. Now we make you feel bad for them, and since the arcs are all defined, we go into a climax that is more rewarding, as you now have stakes for every character. And these are all things from different genres. So, it becomes very interesting. We can almost say anything from any genre. Since we are making a TV show about the film industry, we can say anything in this genre that we have.”
The Ba***ds of Bollywood was released on Netflix on September 18. The seven-episode series is created and directed by by Aryan along with co-creators Bilal Siddiqui and Manav Chauhan, all of whom have written the show.