As a child I wanted to be like Amitabh Bachchan, says Talaash director
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By Puri
Mumbai:
Director
Reema
Kagti
has
revealed
that
as
a
child,
she
wanted
to
be
like
megastar
Amitabh
Bachchan
and
would
imitate
him.
Reema,
who
is
looking
forward
to
the
release
of
her
upcoming
movie
Talaash
starring
Aamir
Khan,
Rani
Mukherjee
and
Kareena
Kapoor,
has
also
expressed
that
she
would
like
to
direct
Bachchan
someday.
"When
I
was
a
kid
I
used
to
see
all
'masala'
commercial
Hindi
films.
I
loved
Mr
Amitabh
Bachchan,
I
was
in
fact
obsessed.
I
wanted
to
be
like
him.
As
a
kid
I
used
to
imitate
him,
I
used
to
have
middle
parting
hair,
try
and
speak
dialogues
from
his
films," Kagti
told
PTI.
"I
was
influenced
by
Hindi
films
and
world
cinema.
I
am
a
film
buff.
I
don't
like
horror.
I
find
love
stories
boring,"
she
said.
Kagti
is
ecstatic
that
she
got
to
work
with
Bachchan
while
she
was
an
assistant
director.
"I
have
worked
with
him
while
I
was
assisting
for
Lakshya
and
Armaan.
But
I
never
got
time
to
talk
to
him
or
tell
him
that
I
am
his
huge
fan,"
she
said.
Lakshya
(2004),
directed
by
Farhan
Akhtar,
had
a
fictionalised
backdrop
of
the
1999
Kargil
conflict
in
which
Bachchan
playing
the
role
of
Col
Sunil
Damle.
In
Honey
Irani's
2003
directorial
venture
Armaan,
he
was
seen
playing
the
role
of
a
doctor.
Reema
said
she
would
love
to
direct
the
70-year-old
megastar
but
has
to
think
of
something
out-of-the-box
for
him.
"I
think
you
will
have
to
come
up
with
something
very
special,
as
he
has
done
everything.
So
you
will
have
to
be
very
special
to
grab
his
fancy,"
Kagti
said.