‘If you walk with your despair in your heart, then you are alive, if you walk with the lightning of dreams in your eyes, then you are alive, learn to be free like a gust of wind. You learn to flow like a river in the waves’ Reading the depth of these lines, you must have understood that only a great screenwriter can write it and that is everyone’s favorite actor, Farhan Akhtar. In an interview given to Stardust, Farhan Akhtar revealed many deep secrets.
Farhan Akhtar is a great singer and a great screenwriter. His artists are set according to different moods. Like ‘The Beatles’, ‘Pink Floyd’, ‘The Doors’, but the most special among them is the music of ‘David Grey’. He said that when he heard ‘David Gilmore’ live in London, it was like a dream come true for him.
Farhan’s singing really touches hearts, but Farhan Akhtar is also a fan of many singers. ‘Mick Jagger’, ‘Axel Rose’ and ‘Eddie Vedder’ (Adi Weather). Apart from this, he also likes the ‘Pearl Jam’ music band. Farhan said that he also saw a documentary made about ‘Pearl Jam’.
Farhan says that it is the harmony of music and singing that makes a good song. There is music according to the mood of each person. Therefore, according to him, there is no such song, which has been given more importance. Maybe the music that one person likes, the other doesn’t like. It all depends on the mood of each person.
There are many of those albums that are your favorites. But listening to the same songs continuously starts to get boring. It feels like a prison sentence. But there are some songs that he listens to alone. They are ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ (Pink Floyd), ‘1947 Earth’ (Deepa Mehta) and ‘Ten’ (Pearl James album).
‘With every moment you meet, open your arms, see a new world in every moment, these eyes, walking with wonder in their eyes, you are alive, if you are walking with your despair in your heart, then you are alive’, Farhan believes that life should be lived freely. Farhan’s favorite genre is ‘Rock’. In the movie RockOn he touched everyone’s heart with his acting and his best songs. Music is the only thing he is not fascinated by language. Even if the language is not understood, but despite this, everyone can understand and enjoy the music, they can connect with it.
Farhan shared something special that he embraces in his personal and professional life and that is, “It’s very important to everyone that you keep asking yourself if what you’re doing is right or wrong. It’s wrong.” This is the only way to keep yourself clear in your own eyes.’
Farhan also said that in childhood he too received a lot of pampering like ordinary children and received punishment for making a mistake. Farhan Akhtar says that he used to think of himself as ‘John Maclean’ in his childhood and used to act like he was chasing thieves with fake guns in his house. Once upon a time, Farhan had punched his sister Zoya Akhtar in the face while playing. So Zoya was seriously injured. He said that when his sister and director Zoya Akhtar decided to make the movie ‘Luck By Chance’ in 2002, but the movie was made in 2009. He said that Zoya is a hard worker, but it took her about seven years to make this movie, which was a very difficult time for her.