Aamir Khan debuts on Instagram on 53rd birthday

Aamir Khan makes a spectacular debut on Instagram on his 53rd birthday by sharing an old picture of his mother Zeenat Hussain.

Aamir shared a multi-image collage grid of his mother’s picture on his verified Instagram profile. One of the pictures was captioned: “The person because of whom I am who I am.”

Aamir’s account was created on the eve of his birthday. Without a single post for over 12 hours, the superstar managed to pull in more 393 thousand followers so far.

The ‘Dangal’ star primarily used Twitter to communicate with his fans and share updates about his upcoming projects but things maybe different from now onwards.=

Aamir Khan already has an massive 15 million followers on Facebook. He has over 23 million followers on Twitter and , which is way less than his contemporaries Shah Rukh Khan (34 million) and Salman Khan (31 million).

Aamir Khan is currently filming “Thugs Of Hindostan”, which also stars Amitabh Bachchan, Katrina Kaif and Fatima Sana Shaikh. The actor took a day’s break from the shooting to celebrate with his family.

He will resume shooting after Amitabh Bachchan’s health deteriorated on Tuesday and doctors from Mumbai were flown in to check on him. Bachchan is reportedly feeling better and his wife Jaya Bachchan told news agency IANS that the “heavy costumes”  worn during the shoot are to be blamed for his condition.

Aamir is the son of producer Tahir Hussain and Zeenat, and is one of the most popular and influential actors in Bollywood.