I wouldn't have managed to do any of the these things

I wouldn't have managed to do any of the these things. She said, 'Oh you're Tahir sahab's son! I must tell him you're a fantastic actor!' I said, 'No! You can't tell him that!' She said, 'You are a fantastic actor, you should be acting'. I felt so good," Aamir recalled."At that time almost everyone felt, film industry was not a good place to be. My own family, Nasir sahab (Nasir Hussain) and papa jaan were telling me, 'No. Engineer, doctor, charted accountant. I didn't want to come close to it. But they wanted me to get into a good professional course. I used to pretend that I was going for hockey match, but used to go for shooting. They wanted us to be more stable in life, to go into a profession which is more stable. They didn't want me to go through the uncertainties and the traumas, in the volatile business that we are in," he said.."Nobody in my house knew I had gone to shoot the film."Shabana ji saw the film and asked about me.

At that time, she was working with my father in a film titled 'Khoon Ki Pukaar'.Aamir said nevertheless he undertook a course at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), though secretly.Aamir said his family wanted him to do something, which was more "stable". Chacha jaan (Nasir), abba and ammi felt it was such a volatile profession," the 51-year-old said during a panel discussion at the 18th Jio MAMI Mumbai International Film Festival. Both filmmakers were telling me not to go in films. Don't go in films'.Aamir secretly did courses and small films in the FTII, Pune, without his family's knowledge. I never wanted Nasir sahab aur abba jaan to ever feel that 'Now it is our responsibility to launch Aamir'. I was doing my own thing, I used to go to FTII, do diploma films over there.Aamir, son of director Tahir Hussain and nephew of filmmaker Nasir Husain, has revealed that despite being a film family, his folks were against the idea of him joining Bollywood as they found it volatile.

I didn't want them to ever feel that, or be a burden on them.It was a silent film made by his classmate, who asked him to feature in it as an actor, assistant director, spot boy, and the experience of doing that film made him interested in filmmaking."One minute you are up there, one minute you are not."I was very conscious of one thing.Aamir said veteran actress Shabana Azmi watched the movie and heaped praise on him. There is no certainty or security.But I never ever even by mistake used to mention to chacha jaan or to abba jaan about me wanting to act."So, I knew by the time I wanted to act."Aamir recalled he shot for a 40-minute short film called ‘Paranoia’ CPP film directed by Aditya Bhattacharya, after he passed out of 10th. Mumbai: Superstar Aamir Khan entertained the fans as a young, curious engineer in ‘3 Idiots’ but this wouldn't have been possible, had he listened to his parents, who wanted him to pursue engineering