Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan's Laal Singh Chaddha received polarised response when it opened at the box office on August 11, 2022. It was the official Hindi remake of Tom Hanks' Hollywood classic, Forrest Gump. Aamir played the role of a person with an IQ of 75 and Kareena was his ladylove. While a section of people loved his performance in Laal Singh Chaddha, SS Rajamouli found it 'overacting'.

In an interview with PTI, Aamir's cousin and director Mansoor Khan said, "Aamir has a great sense of humour. So one day he laughingly tells me, ‘When you told me it was over the top, I said, ok, you are a subtle guy which is why you might have felt that way. But when someone like Rajamouli tells me overacting lag raha hai, I said to myself, Isko bhi lag raha hai toh kiya hi hoga (If he also feels so than it must be)’."