Back in 2010, Imran Khan talked about seeing box office failure after his debut and second guessing his career in films.
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00:00I kind of stumbled into acting at the last minute.
00:03It wasn't my lifelong dream.
00:04It wasn't something that I really planned to do.
00:06And it's something that I'm kind of finding my way in.
00:08I'm still kind of finding my feet.
00:10So when I had two failures back to back, I did honestly question whether I was doing
00:15the right thing.
00:16Yeah.
00:17And did you think you made mistakes?
00:18No.
00:20Because I kind of, I pulled myself out of that very quickly.
00:22I said, no, this is a trap.
00:23Don't fall into this.
00:26You can't brush off failure, but you can't let it drag you down either.
00:56Clearly, both of you are contemporaries.
01:04Is there a driving kind of force with you that wanting to achieve and be the leader
01:07of your generation?
01:08I don't.
01:09No.
01:10I've never been a person who thinks of competition, of competing.
01:14I want to do the best that I can, and it doesn't really bother me if someone else is better
01:19than me.
01:20Do you think Ranbir is better than you?
01:21I think so.
01:22Oh, okay.
01:23I do feel he's a better actor than I am.
01:27I kind of stumbled into acting at the last minute.
01:30It wasn't my lifelong dream.
01:31It wasn't something I'd really planned to do.
01:34And it's something that I'm kind of finding my way in.
01:36I'm still kind of finding my feet.
01:38I think there's a lot of times that I watch him on screen, I say that, dude, he's damn
01:42good.
01:43I wish I could do that.
01:44Do you lose any sleep over a failure?
01:46I don't lose sleep, no.
01:49I don't know.
01:50I've seen it.
01:51You actually have been through a very strange graph, Imran.
01:52You had a huge hit in your first film, as opposed to you, actually, who had your success
01:56much later.
01:57And then you went through two films that really shook you up, I'm sure, in terms of both luck
02:02and kidnap.
02:03Yeah.
02:04Both in succession failed.
02:05Yeah.
02:06What was your headspace post that phase in your life?
02:09That was a very low time.
02:10Yeah.
02:11Did you actually question your place in the movie business?
02:13I totally did.
02:15As I said, I had never planned to act.
02:17It's something that I kind of stumbled into.
02:18So when I had two failures back to back, I did honestly question whether I was doing
02:23the right thing.
02:24Yeah.
02:25And did you think you made mistakes?
02:26No.
02:27Because I kind of, I pulled myself out of that very quickly.
02:30I said, no, this is a trap.
02:32Don't fall into this.
02:34You can't brush off failure, but you can't let it drag you down either.
02:37You have to say, okay, fine.
02:39I failed.
02:40How do I get back?
02:42And I think it was after luck, actually, that my second consecutive failure, that you
02:48called me for I Hate Love Stories.
02:49Right.
02:50Correct.
02:51And I don't know.
02:53I saw great potential in that.
02:55All right.
02:56And when that clicked and it did well, that was a big relief for me.
02:59It was kind of a vindication.
03:00Kind of validated that you're here to stay.
03:02Yeah.
03:03I said, okay, fine.
03:04I know what I'm doing.