`I am not quite hero material`

Imran Khan is candid as he voices his concerns about the Hindi film industry. It's not so much about the industrywallahs as about, "me, Imran, and whether I fit here at all". As a film journalist, it's a line we've heard before: Most actors have repeated it, often in a bid to applaud themselves, to reiterate that they don't fit the mould of partygoers, never mind they do end up at every film do.

 

But a genuine concern in Imran's tone makes us want to believe him. "I am a very reserved person, I like being on my own," he reiterates, admitting that press interviews, promotional gigs for his film, are, after a point, not his cup of tea.

It's ironical that Imran even mentions this at all; after all, he's three films-old already