Breaking new ground with Earth
His first Indo-Canadian project was 1947-Earth, which released in 1998. He played the controversial Dil Nawaz, or the Ice Candy Man, who gets swayed by communal violence and decides to pick sides in a gory partition.
The no-nonsense cop in Sarfarosh
Playing a police officer for the first time, Aamir as Ajay Rathore in the 1999 release, Sarfarosh, was a treat to watch.