“Munnabhai Is a Great Film,” says Aamir Khan

“Munnabhai is a great film,” said Aamir Khan in a Mumbai Newspaper today. With his film ‘Rang De Basanti’ finding favours with the Indian jury as an official entry to the Oscars this year the ‘perfectionist’ Khan has gone in a Media overdrive. As he himself has said that he talks to the Press whenever he has something to talk about, Aamir has come out in open to support a film he truly believes in. But given a choice he admits if he would have been in the jury, it would have been difficult for him to make a selection between ‘Rang De Basanti’ and ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ as both are “very good films”.
Aamir has pledged all his support to the team of UTV CEO (Producer of RDB), Ronnie Screwvala and director Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra. His experience in the campaign for ‘Lagaan’ (‘Lagaan’ along with ‘Mother India’ and ‘Salaam Bombay’ are the only three films which have been selected in the final five of the Best Film in The Foreign Language) as a Producer will come in handy for the chances of ‘RDB’ at the Oscars. Aamir is repeatedly saying that the best way of making it to the Final Five is by showing the film to as many members of the jury as possible.
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Aamir on RDB's race at Oscars

Mumbai: After achieving cult status in the country, director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Rang de Basanti is going to be India’s official entry to the Oscars in the foreign film category. CNN-IBN correspondent Varsha Pillai caught up with a very happy Aamir Khan to know if he is playing an active part in promoting the film in the United States.
Varsha Pillai: Do you think you have been lucky for a second time with Rang de Basanti after your earlier film Lagaan's entry in the foreign film category to the Oscars.
Aamir Khan: Well I am keeping my fingers crossed. Let's see if we will be as lucky this time. Let's hope for the best.
Varsha Pillai: Will you be actively campaigning for the film in the United States?
Aamir Khan: I don’t think it will be necessary. I think both Ronny and Rakesh are extremely capable of handling this. And I have full confidence that they will manage to take the film to the members of the foreign language committee at the Oscars.
What needs to be done primarily is fairly simple actually. We need to try and make sure that more and more members see the film. And then you leave it to them as to what grades do they give to the film.

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Aamir's film finds a producer

If you have Aamir Khan in your film, we are sure there must be hundreds of producers who want to put in money – for, they know that it makes business sense. Resultantly, Aamir's first Tamil remake, by A R Murugadoss, will soon go on the floors. While several South Indian producers were willing to fund it, apparently, Allu Arvind, the man behind films like Kunwara and Calcutta Mail, has managed to beat others by acquiring the production.
The lure of Aamir film, we must say, hasn't spared him either
Source :eBolly