How Aryan Khan has carved his own path and found his own voice with his show 'The Ba***ds Of Bollywood' on Netflix

With Netflix’s The Ba***ds of Bollywood, Aryan Khan has arrived - as a storyteller shaping his own cinematic voice. Produced by Red Chillies Entertainments Pvt Ltd., the seven-episode series is created by Aryan Khan along with co-creators Bilal Siddiqui and Manav Chauhan, all of whom have written the show. Since its premiere on September 18, it has taken Netflix’s global charts by storm, landing in the Top 10 for non-English content and claiming the No. 1 spot across South Asia.

Following the chaotic, emotional journey of Aasmaan Singh (Lakshya) and his friends through the ruthless glamour of the film industry, the show offers an audacious peek into Bollywood’s beautiful mess- both on and off the screen.

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“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve preferred telling stories,” Aryan Khan tells an international publication in a recent interview. “I always felt I had a lot of things to say, and I just feel I could tell it in a different and interesting way. I just felt there’s more control behind the camera. And, it’s simply that you enjoy it more. It’s something you love more. And I feel if you do something that you love, you always do a better job. And it stops being a job after a point, you look forward to it every day, and it’s what you want to do.”

It’s a passion that, as he admits, was nurtured at home. “My father himself is extremely in-depth about the aspects of filmmaking, whether it is VFX, whether it is lighting, camera work, whatever. And ever since I was a kid, he would show me this- ‘You don’t actually get shot. This is how it happens.’ Or, how do you make a plane fly through the sky without actually making a plane fly? And all of that was, obviously, it’s like magic to a child.”

That early exposure to the craft seems to have shaped not just his technical knowledge but also his understanding of genres. The Ba**ds of Bollywood refuses to be slotted as a series - it’s equal parts drama, chaos, and romance, seamlessly shifting tones like the industry it mirrors. “We can do an action sequence. We can suddenly break your heart by showing a death and then suddenly become a rom-com,” Khan says. “You can suddenly become different because there are so many different [genres] and that’s also because of the length that we have.”

This fluidity, he explains, was by design. “The first three episodes are light-hearted, slowly build into the sadness. We built all the characters in the earlier phases. Now we make you feel bad for them, and since the arcs are all defined, we go into a climax that is more rewarding, as you now have stakes for every character. And these are all things from different genres. So it becomes very interesting. We can almost say anything from any genre. Since we are making a TV show about the film industry, we can say anything in this genre that we have.”

And that’s perhaps the biggest triumph of The Ba***ds of Bollywood- it doesn’t imitate Bollywood, it dissects it with wit, style, and emotional depth. Much like its creator, it’s not afraid to be unpredictable, layered, and utterly original.

The Ba***ds of Bollywood is streaming NOW on Netflix!