Rock on Farhan
9.
1.2013, Mumbai
Today is Farhan Akhtar’s birthday. I
have known Farhan since he was literally knee high, very funny and brimming
with ideas. Then he had two passions. He loved food and he loved films. For a
while Farhan enrolled in a college but soon got bored and dropped out. For a
year or so Farhan did nothing except stay home and watch films.
His mother Honey Irani has often said
that watching her young son lie all day in bed before TV worried her and she
feared that he would do nothing constructive in life. She pleaded with her
daughter Zoya to find her brother a job and Zoya put Farhan on to AD Guru Adi Pocha.
It is said that Adi Pocha was vastly
impressed with Farhan and predicted a great future for his protégée. He told Shabana Azmi that Farhan has the
making of a writer, director, actor and also a musician. ‘The conflict will be
in making up his mind for a specific field and giving it single minded
attention.’
Nobody believed Pocha at that time but a
few years later Farhan surprised his parents with his debut script. His school
friend Ritesh Sidhwani and he had decided to set up a production company. The
result was Dil Chahta Hai and the rest is history.
Rock On launched Farhan as an actor and
a musician and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobbara as a reciting poet. Life seemed like a celebration but the best
was still to come.
Rakesh Omprakash Mehra offered Farhan a
role of a lifetime Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. The film is releasing this year and the
promos on air very promising.
It has been barely a decade since Farhan
began his journey in cinema and he has achieved so much already. Farhan has proved what his guru had predicted
– an all rounder and what is further flattering is that the creative process
involved no conflicts.
Bhawana
Somaaya/ www.bhawanasomaaya.com
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