Imran Khan 'glad' his spy thriller is shelved: 'Don't want to solve problems with a gun'

Actor Imran Khan is happy that his comeback project has been delayed indefinitely and may not resurrect ever. The actor was expected to star in Abbas Tyrewala’s spy thriller. However, the project has been put on the back burner, with chances of being shelved forever. Khan whose potential comeback has been the talk of the town for quite some time nnow, recently confessed that he is actually glad that the project might not release.

Speaking to Film Companion, Imran Khan shared details about the project and said, “We started talking about it in July of last year. Abbas Tyrewala called me up out of the blue. I was in San Francisco for a holiday, and he told me that he had written this amazing thing. It was a cool story, and he asked me to do it together. The project was in early development at Hotstar. This was before the acquisition. In the latter part of last year, Hotstar got amalgamated with Jio, and somewhere within all of this, that project felt wayside.”

He added, “All things said and done, that thing fell into limbo, and it doesn’t look like it will be resurrected. I am glad that that thing ended up not coming together.” Reasoning it out, he said, “I don’t want to play a character who solves problems with a gun.”

Imran expressed dismay over violence being celebrated in cinema, not just in India but globally. He said, "I have a sense of where cinema is going globally. There is a glamorization, fetishization, and sexualization of violence that makes me uncomfortable. I have grown up watching action films. My heroes were Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Indiana Jones. But there is a way to portray violence, and this is not a moral thing. Violence and action are a language within cinema, but when we communicate it and portray it in films, there is a way to do it where you feel the weight of it."

Khan added, “We have started making films where heroes will just go in and go boom and boom. They make it cool and sexy, and that makes me uncomfortable.”

Imran Khan is known for his performances in romantic comedies like 'Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na', 'Gori Tere Pyar Mein', and 'Mere Brother Ki Dulhan', among others. He was last seen in 'Katti Batti'.

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