I am in the Rs 1,000 crore zone: Irrfan Khan

Mumbai: If Bollywood’s big Khans are eyeing Rs100 crore and Rs 200 crore club, internationally acclaimed Irrfan Khan says he has already surpassed that with Slumdog Millionaire and The Amazing Spider-Man collections. " Slumdog Millionaire has earned more than Rs 800 crore, Spider-Man must have gone beyond that and Life Of Pi will definitely go bigger because the cost itself is Rs 500 crore. So, I am working in both kinds of films and I am in the Rs.1,000 crore zone," Irrfan told IANS. [caption id=“attachment_516651” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Courtesy: Screengrab from the Trailer of life of Pi[/caption] Thanks to international offers, Irrfan has an option to move base to Hollywood, but says he has no such plans. “I get a lot of Hollywood films and if I want to shift there and live there, I could do that. But then I will have to depend on each and every film that is coming my way for survival and I don’t want to do that. I want to choose subjects that are special to me, giving me something extra as an actor to engage myself and that’s why I do Hollywood film, otherwise, I don’t get money.” “It doesn’t mean that if it’s a $100 million film I am getting a million dollar. It’s not like that…Sometimes I lose money. But the kind of films I did has given me a longer life as an actor. The prime thing for me is to be interested in this job. Once I lose interest, then what will I do?” Filmmakers cast him because he is a saleable actor, he added. “I feel, I am saleable otherwise nobody would have cast me. Industry is not here for social service, they cast you because you get that much money on the table. I have my own limitations, I have my own market and that’s why I am being cast in a film, which is (made on a budget of) around Rs 20 crore or Rs 50 crore,” said the 45-year-old. IANS