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Imran Khan: Rebel Without A Cause. I am a huge James Dean fan. Huge. I love him. Somewhere I think at the back of mind that I had heard this was a very famous, popular film, but I was expecting that since it is from the fifties, it is probably very dated. I was 18 when I saw the film and I think the character is about 17 or 18 years old in the film and I could relate to it. It was not dated at all. It was as relevant to today as it was to 50 years ago.

Rajeev Masand: Imran you are a trained bartender. You have to tell us what, when, where, why?

Imran Khan: Have you seen a movie called Cocktail? It's not the greatest movie, but it's great fun and after watching that, I must have been 13 or 14 at the time, I was like , 'aah, I got to learn how to do that'. While I was in LA, after I finished film school, I was looking for a way to get a job and make some money - while I was looking for a real job making films - and a friend of mine joined this bartender's training institute and he was having a blast and he told me about it. It turned out that he was the guy who trained Tom Cruise for his role in Cocktail. So I went in and did the course. It was a very intensive course.

Rajeev Masand: Imran you spend a lot of time with creepy crawlies and in the jungles? Tell us more about this

Imran Khan: I was in a school which didn't have a name - it was that small. There is a village called Gedde about three-and-a-half hours out of Ooty. Near this village was a farm and I was in a school there. It was a kind of a gurukul. One of the students there, his dad has a crocodile bank in Chennai, called the Madras Croc Bank. He gave us the chance to go and work there. I think I spent one summer working there when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

Rajeev Masand: So what was the work? Cleaning their cages?