Whatever Aamir Khan touches may turn to gold. We're not disputing that. We'll live with him trying his best not to touch us. But we're staying far away and observing our little man from a distance. Here's why...

Where this actor-director-producer goes, disaster follows. If it were true all of the time, we'd stop travelling to locations he shoots at.

Which, by the way, includes Mumbai and Delhi. That would also mean us evacuating, moving out in anticipation and holing up in some remote town praying that the actor didn't feel like shooting anywhere near where we were.

The reason we're bringing this up now and going all Nostradamus on you, is this: statistics show that the more remote the location Aamir shoots at, the greater and quicker the chances of a natural disaster and the film's a bigger hit.

So in stead of thanking him and sending him postcards inviting him over to your Peepli slice of heaven (or hell, depending on your perspective), you might want to pray he or his production team doesn't single you out for destruction. Think we're kidding? Read on...

LAGAAN SHOT HERE: Bhuj, Gujarat
DISASTER STRIKES: Location scouting began as early as 1998. By 1999, principal photography was done. In January 2001, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale levelled everything in sight
FILM RELEASED: June 2001

3 IDIOTS SHOT HERE: Leh and Ladakh
DISASTER STRIKES: Aamir shot at the Druk White Lotus School, 15 kms away from Leh on the Leh-Manali Highway for the film. Earlier this month, flash floods in Leh killed 165 people, injured and rendered thousands homeless
FILM RELEASED: December 2009

PEEPLI [LIVE] SHOT HERE: Bhadwai village
DISASTER STRIKES: An Aamir Khan production, the film was shot in this Peepli village earlier this year. It has gone on to recieve critical acclaim and by conservative estimates, has done reasonably good business since its release. It's only a matter of time before the village or a surrounding area features in the news because of some calamity or natural disaster. Be scared, Peepli-waalon (all 500 villages), be very scared.
FILM RELEASED: Last week