Name: Farhan Akhtar
Date of Birth: 9 January 1974 Son of renowned Indian lyricist/poet Javed Akhtar and screenplay and story writer Honey Irani. Brother of Zoya Akhtar, cousin of Kabir Akhtar, and grandson of Jan Nissar Akhtar. In an interview on the talk show "The Lounge" with Simone Singh (on the Indian channel CNBC-TV18), Farhan Akhtar said that when he left college, he spent about two years at home and did nothing productive. During those two years, he watched about two films daily. Akhtar said that it was this period of his life which allowed him to connect with Karan Shergill, the protagonist of Lakshya (2004). Lakshya, which film Akhtar directed, begins with Karan as a young, unemployed slacker who stays at home, sleeps late, and has no ambition or aim in life. ... He loves to write poetries in English and Urdu. Endorses German watch brand - A Lange. He directed the music video for the 1998 hit song "Breathless" from the debut album of Shankar Mahadevan, which made Shankar famous. Later on Farhan and Shankar went on to collaborate in every movie Farhan directed, with Shankar composing the music for his films as the trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Farhan did something very unconventional in Bollywood by singing all his songs himself for the movie Rock On!! (2008) as the movie featured him as a rockstar. Before this movie a very few other actors have done something similar but just for one song and that too experimentally, but Farhan by using his own voice corrected an age-old error which had become a norm of Hindi movies, i.e. the voice of the actor changing during songs because of a totally different voice of playback singer lending his/her voice in the song for the actor on screen. He is exactly one day older than actor Hrithik Roshan, who's a close friend in personal life. Read more Farhan Akhtar movies (actor)Farhan Akhtar movies (director)User Comments |
