Aryan Khan opens up about directorial debut ‘The Bads of Bollywood’ and dad Shah Rukh Khan's influence

Aryan Khan on his directorial debut

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan has recently made his directorial debut with the Netflix series, The Bads of Bollywood. However, Aryan has revealed how he loved telling stories since childhood.

In a recent interview with Variety, Aryan also reflected on how his father, aka Shah Rukh Khan, helped him follow his dreams.

Talking about being behind the camera, Aryan said, “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve preferred telling stories,” Khan tells Variety. “I always felt I had a lot of things to say, and I just feel I could tell it in a different and an interesting way. I just felt there’s more control behind the camera.”

He added, “And, it’s simply 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.”

However, Aryan further recalled how Shah Rukh helped him pursue his dreams. He said, “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.’”

He added, “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,” he recalls. By age 10 or 11, Khan was doing VFX on iMovie and editing on Final Cut Pro.”

In the same interview, Aryan Khan talked about how the first three episodes of The Bads of Bollywood were light-hearted, with the further episodes slowly building into sadness.

He explained, “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.”

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The Bads of Bollywood stars Lakshya, Sahher Bambba, Mona Singh, Raghav Juyal, Bobby Deol, Anya Singh, Manish Chaudhari, Vijayant Kohli, Gautami Kapoor, Manoj Pahwa and Rajat Bedi in the key roles.

The series is produced by Gauri Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment. Aryan Khan has served as writer and director of the series in collaboration with co-creators and writers Bilal Siddiqi and Manav Chauhan.