 Mahkamov has also published his interviews with international celebrities in Uzbek tabloids and magazines.So far he has published his interviews with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Frédéric Diefenthal, Armand Assante, Ennio Morricone, and Mithun Chakraborty.In 2015, it emerged that Mahkamov had made contradictory and false claims about his birthplace, academic qualifications, and skills.