It is quite an established fact that Aamir Khan prefers to stay away from all the award functions and the frenzy surrounding them. Having consciously avoided award functions over the years, Aamir says he doesn’t attach any importance to winning any match or an award. “Whenever I win an award, I start worrying about people who deserved it and didn’t get it. The first thing that my mother asks me when I reach home is about people who didn’t win the award and she starts worrying about them. She would be happy when I would win a race, but then would start worrying about the person who lost. That was her nature and she has inculcated this nature in me,” says Aamir.
This in turn, led him to feeling guilty even after having won a tennis match. “My mother’s concern for the person who lost would keep worrying me,” adds Aamir. He says that winning and losing is a part of life. What matters the most is to take it in the right spirit. “I have always played the game in a sportive spirit and not because I wanted to win,” he says as a matter of fact.
The only two award functions he has attended in India are the Dinanath Mageshkar Award and Golapodi Awards in the south. “I don’t attend award ceremonies if I don’t respect them. I attended Dinanath Mangeshkar Award because I respect the man and the family. The other is the Golapodi Awards from the South, which were instituted in the name of a young debutant filmmaker who passed away while he was shooting for a film. When his family messaged me during Taare Zameen Par, I felt they were genuine. There were no extra frills like song and dance sequences surrounding it,” he says.