Netflix's Maharaj actor Junaid Khan reveals he was raised by mother Reena because dad Aamir Khan was busy with work: 'But if you need him...'

Aamir Khan’s son Junaid Khan recently marked his debut with Netflix’s Maharaj, which garnered positive reviews among the audience and film experts. In a recent interview, the 31-year-old star said that he observed a lot of how AK has learnt from his failures. “He has been doing this for 40 years now, he has seen everything,” said Junaid about his dad, whose last films Thugs of Hindostan and Laal Singh Chaddha tanked at the box office.

The star kid said that Aamir Khan has “the best solution for everything”. “There is a lot to learn from just how he conducts himself. Failures affect him, but he takes the time to process it and then move on to learning from it. He will figure out what went wrong and proceed from there, so that’s his process which is probably the best way to go about it,” said Junaid while talking to Siddharth Kannan.

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“My mother has a huge impact on my life. She is the one who brought me up. Papa is a very loving father, but he would be busy a lot in life. So, the one person who has shaped me the most as a person is my mother. But if there is a difficulty that I am going through, I can call anyone, maa, papa, Ira. They are always one phone call away. Even papa, who is incredibly busy, if you need to get a hold of him, it will not take you more than a couple of minutes, and if you need it, he will have all the time in the world you want. I have a supportive, open family. So whenever you want to talk, it is always open for discussion,” Junaid added.

In 2022, when Aamir Khan had appeared on KWK, he had said,  “A year ago, I went through a lot of introspection. I felt I did not nurture my relationships like my work. I realised that I’ve not spent so much time with Ira and Junaid since they were children. Now, in the last months, I’m a changed person. I connect more with my family, my children, Kiran’s parents, Reena’s parents, my mother, sister and brother. I would have liked to spend much more time with them at the cost of my work. But at that time, I was just so passionately following what I was doing.”