“I think very few journalists today live up to their primary responsibility of reporting facts accurately and responsibly. About 90 per cent of the stuff written about me is made up. I see interviews which I have not even given”"The background kids have done extremely well. For a scene to work, the background action has to really come alive,” the actor said on Friday about his directorial debut Taare Zameen Par, which will release on December 21, in an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times.
Taare Zameen Par has been followed by another private storm, with his mentally ill brother Faisal publicly accusing him of ill-treatment.
Instead of hitting back, he responds with a fiercely private silence. “I am not comfortable discussing it at a public platform. And quite frankly, I don’t think it is anyone’s business,” said the 42-year-old.
“The media, by just writing about somebody’s mental illness, has only damaged him and aggravated his condition.”
Did he have a problematic relationship with the media?
“Did I? I am not quite sure it is in the past tense. I think very few journalists today live up to their primary responsibility of reporting facts accurately and responsibly. About 90 per .cent stuff written about me is made up. I see interviews which I have not even given appear,” he said.
Turning down an Rs 20-crore acting offer recently because there was no script, for instance, or refusing to have his bust at Madame Tussauds (now home for a couple of India’s other superstars).
“Being at Tussauds does not really interest me,” he said.
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