‘Anupam Kher was doing 60 films at same time, Shashi Kapoor was called taxi as he would many shifts in the same day’

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Aamir Khan, who had established himself as a star in the 1990s was, in fact, the first film star to declare that he would be doing only one film at a time. While he was seen as an outlier at that time, the trend caught on with most leading stars. “Aamir was the one who said ‘No, I am going to do one film at a time’. People thought he was mad,” he said.

She also shared that even in the 1970s, there was this trend of doing multiple films at once and it was because of this that Shashi Kapoor came to be known as “taxi” because he would be doing one shift after another and would take a taxi from one studio to next, change his clothes and start shooting.

Earlier, at the Critics’ Choice Awards 2023, Ajay Devgn had shared something similar where he said, “Honestly speaking, there was a point in my life in the 90s… Today we do one film at a time, at that time we used to do 14-15 films at a time. We used to do four shifts, and five to six hour shifts. We used to go at 7 in the morning for work, shoot till about 12 on one set, and in the same pair of jeans go to the other set. We just used to change the jacket or the shirt and shoot four-five hours.”