Kabir Khan.
Bollywood’s famous director Kabir Khan is known for his best films. He has worked with many A-listers like Salman Khan, Ranveer Singh, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Katrina Kaif. The filmmaker has given many hit films in his 9 -year film career. He started his career by working in documentary films and then started the feature film direction in 2006 with the Adventure thriller ‘Kabul Express’. He is known for the direction of ‘New York’ (2009), ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ (2012), ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ (2015) and ’83’ (2021). His film ‘Chandu Champion’ (2024), released in 2024, also received good reviews. This was his second sports biopic after Ranveer Singh’s ’83’.
Kabir Khan’s journey in the film industry
Kabir Khan made many revelations about his education and career. He informed that apart from Kirodimal College of Delhi University, he has also studied the art of making a film in Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi. In the early days of his career, he worked as a cameraman with well-known journalist Saeed Naqvi and traveled around the world covering many international issues. He traveled to about 60 countries for five years and shot documentary films with a senior journalist.
Travel to 60 countries in five years
Recalling his journey, Kabir Khan said, ‘Imagine that at the age of 22 to 27 you travel to about 60 countries and this is not a normal journey, where you go somewhere, eat regional food and return. Here, we were trying to understand the hearts and minds of the people, we were knowing about their achievements and sorrows. And now that I think about it, whatever I am today, I am because of those five years. Those years taught me a lot and I am safe to say that I really understood the meaning of shooting, imprisoned the moments from there.
How did Kabir move to the film from the documentary?
Taking forward the conversation, Kabir said that during the position of life and death in Afghanistan, the filmmaker understood the real power of Bollywood and decided that if he escapes alive from there, he would make feature films. And exactly the same thing happened, Kabir and his friends came out safely and wrote a story about their experience and persuaded Yash Raj Films to support their project. The film was 2006’s John Abraham and Arshad Warsi starrer Kabul Express, which also won Kabir Khan their first national award in the National Film Award category for the first film of Best Director.
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