Mumbai is the best: Imran Khan

When he was shooting in Delhi for the film Break Ke Baad earlier last month, Imran Khan got into a Delhi versus Mumbai discussion with us – on the weather, of all things. It was during the first few days of the movie’s shoot in Delhi that we met him and he said, “If we’d started any later, it would have become unbearably hot in Delhi and everyone would have died.
Before Jaane Tu..., I’d come to Delhi when I was 11 or 12 years old. I’ve never lived through a whole Delhi summer. Mumbai summer is very different. The difference is the humidity. It’s killing, true, but in Delhi, it’s hot and dry. It feels like an oven. I can imagine what bread must feel like. In Mumbai, you put on an AC and you’re happy. Here toh you crack open a door or window and it’s like you’ve opened an oven. And then you have freezing cold winters.”
But isn’t Mumbai very crowded and claustrophobic? “Mumbai’s very nice. It’s the best. Why would so many people come there otherwise? I could never live anywhere else. It’s something about the place. It’s seen as the land of opportunity. People come from all over, from nowhere, and make it huge. Someone said something interesting – the difference between Delhi and Mumbai is money. In Delhi, it just matters who you know. You can have no money, nothing, you just have to know politicians, you’re everything. In Mumbai, it doesn’t matter where you’ve come from, all that matters is that you have money, what you’ve made of yourself. Look at these big stars – SRK, Akshay – all these guys who’ve come from nowhere and have fought their way to the very top. They are enjoying the fruits of their labour today.” Alright, Imran, alright... but Delhi’s hot, whatever you say, and we don’t mean just the weather!
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