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Maulana Azad is inspiration for Aamir Khan

Pallab Bhattacharya, New Delhi
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India's first Education Minister, had predicted in an interview published in 1946 that it would not be possible for ‘East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to stay with West Pakistan for any considerable period of
"[here is nothing common between the two regions except that they call themselves Muslims," recalled Bollywood actor Aamir Khan quoting Maulana Azad as having said in the interview published in Lahore- based Urdu magazine ‘Chattan" in April 1946.
Aamir is so impressed by the prophetic words of Maulana Azad that he wants to make a film on the “extremely intelligent" personage with a “progressive mind" whose predictions have come true.
‘I hope that some day ..this is the dream 1 have... 1 can use the capabilities that 1 have and the art form that 1 practice to make a film on Maulana Azad and to bring his life to a larger populace of India,* the actor said speaking at the fifth edition of Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival inaugurated on Wednesday.
Speaking on "Maulana Azad: His Belief in Secularism and His Foresight’ at the lawns of the Victoria Memorial Hall, a landmark in Kolkata, Aamir Khan referred to the interview by Maulana Azad in 1946 and said every word he said had come true.
Reading out excerpts from the interview, he pointed out that Maulana Azad had predicted that Pakistan that was being set up on grounds of religion will have problems like any other military dictatorship - absence of friendly relations with neighbours and armed conflict, heavy burden of foreign debt and internal unrest and regional conflict.
“It is really amazing that he had such clear thoughts back then in 1946, a year before the Partition and Independence and lists out, point-wise, what is going to happen. And about 65 years later, we stand and see what he had predicted comes out to be true to the very word," the actor said.
A few words Maulana Azad had given to Aamir's uncle Nasir Hussain, a leading Bollywood director, have left an indelible mark on the actor's mind.
‘Follow the heart and not listen to what others say"-Aamir recalled Hussain having heard from Maulana Azad and said it has a bearing on the actor's own career in cin-
"If he (Maulana) had not given the advice to my uncle, he might not have been in films. If my uncle had not joined films, my father would not have joined films and if my father had not, I might be somewhere else. So 1 want to thank him (Maulana Azad] for the advice," said the actor basking in the glory of his latest Bollywood action thriller ‘Dhoom 3“ enjoying stupendous box office success having garnered more than Rs 500 crore since its release recently and become the first Indian movie to do so.
Aamir said he had followed Azad's 'follow-the-heart' advice in making his box office hit *3 Idiots" some years ago.