9 January 1974, Mumbai, India
Height
5' 9" (1.75 m)
Mini Biography
Writer Javed Akhtar's and Honey Irani's son 'Farhan Akhtar' is an acutely accomplished and artistic and adolescent administrator and has fabricated a abode for himself in actual little time.He entered Bollywood at the age of 17, acceptable admiral and cinematographers. He alone out of academy and did assorted jobs like alive for a TV assembly abode and ambience up his own assembly house, Excel Entertainment with adolescence acquaintance Ritesh Sidhwani.
Farhan fabricated his authoritative admission in Hindi cinema with the 2001 hit, Dil Chahta Hai (2001), which starred Aamir Khan. It was a big success, abnormally accepted amid the adolescent generation. Many amount it as one of the greatest movies anytime fabricated in Bollywood. The cine becoming absolutely a few nominations for altered awards, and won the Filmfare best cine award. His abutting activity was Lakshya (2004) with Hrithik Roshan, which was appear in 2004. Though the cine did not do as able-bodied at the box office, it won him abundant analytical acclaim. The calligraphy of the cine was accounting by his ancestor Javed Akhtar.
He afresh directed a accommodate of the 1978 bandage archetypal Amitabh Bachchan film, Don (1978) alleged Don (2006/I) which starred Shah Rukh Khan in the appellation role. The blur appear on 20 October 2006 and was a huge success at the box office. He produced the blur Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007) which additionally did able-bodied at the box office.
Then came Bedrock On!! (2008), in which he starred and produced. The blur was a abnormality and became an burning bandage blur aloof like Dil Chahta Hai (2001). And Farhan has a lot to do with its success. He produced it, wrote the dialogues for it, acted in it and learnt how to sing the cool hit songs. His croaking articulation seems absolute for Indian bedrock music. The achievement of Farhan in the cine was a revelation. And a adjustment amateur of his own different appearance was born. Farhan has won applauds from his admirers for his acting admission and all admired the complete of his articulation on songs like 'Rock On' and 'Tum Ho Toh'. As allotment of promotions for _Rock On_, Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Luke Kenny and Purab Kohli (the associates of the Bedrock On!! (2008) casting and the apocryphal bandage 'Magik' depicted in the movie) has toured the country authoritative crowds canal to their agitation and bewitched music.
He is currently (2008-'09) hosting _Oye! It's Friday! (2008)_ which is a celeb allocution appearance with a casting of comedy.
On the claimed front, Farhan is affiliated to Adhuna Bhabani Akhtar and they accept two daughters: Shakya and Akira. They alive in Bandra Bandstand, Mumbai. He is acceptable accompany with the Bedrock On!! (2008) casting and Shah Rukh Khan.
Recently addition blur got appear featuring Farhan as an actor. It is his sister Zoya Akhtar's authoritative admission Luck by Chance (2009) in which he plays a disturbing actor. The blur did adequately acceptable at the box office, but did not about-face out to be a superhit, although it accustomed some abundant animadversion in its assorted reviews.
He will anon be apparent as an amateur already afresh in Vijay Lalwani's abstruseness Karthik Calling Karthik (2010) co-starring with the extra Deepika Padukone. After that he will be abiding to administration with Don 2 (2011) which he is aiming to be a far added bigger and bigger actioner with a huge account than its antecedent Don (2006/I) and is set to absolution in the after bisected of the year 2010.
If there is anybody in Bollywood who is absolutely versatile, it is Farhan Akhtar! He is not alone an ace director, a biographer and a producer, but additionally a activating actor. And if that wasn't enough, he is additionally a accompanist and lyricist.
Farhan Akhtar has Bollywood active in his veins. He is the son of the acclaimed poet, lyricist, & calligraphy biographer Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani. His accompanying sister, Zoya Akhtar, afresh fabricated her authoritative admission with "Luck By Chance" in 2009, in which Farhan played the capital lead.
Farhan Akhtar started his career at an aboriginal age by alive on films like "Lamhe" and "Himalayaputra" as an abettor director.
He fabricated his autograph and authoritative admission with "Dil Chahta Hai" in 2001, which went on to become a bandage classic. The cine appear Farhan's accession in B-Town in appearance and won the National Blur Accolade for Best Feature Blur in Hindi. He went on to absolute the alarmingly acclaimed Lakshya in 2004 and the box appointment hit "Don" in 2006. He has additionally directed a abbreviate blur on HIV AIDS - "Positive" in 2007.
Farhan afresh confused his focus on the afresh unconquered avenues. He fabricated his acting and singing admission in the National Accolade acceptable cine "Rock On!!" in 2008.
He hosted "Oye! It's Friday!" on NDTV Imagine, and appeared as a adjudicator on "Nach Baliye" Season 1.
He absolutely is Bollywood's multi-dimensional personality. This adept of all trades promises to bear much, abundant more.
Spouse
Adhuna Bhabani Akhtar | (2000 - present) 2 children |
Trade Mark
Stunning visualsWide bend tracking shots
Works frequently with the ambassador and a acquaintance in claimed activity Ritesh Sidhwani. Till now, as of 2009, he has produced all the films directed by Farhan
Frequently works with the music administrator leash of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa accustomed as Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Till 2009 they accept composed music in all the films that Farhan has directed (Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Lakshya (2004), Don (2006/I)) and starred in (Rock On!! (2008) and Luck by Chance (2009))
Most of his movies affection a advocate who is a advancing of age person, who is actual aboveboard and adolescent and through the advance of the blur has a desperate transformation mentally axis out to become a actual complete and amenable appearance (e.g. Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Lakshya (2004) and Rock On!! (2008))
Frequently casts the amateur Boman Irani in his produced and directed films (e.g. Lakshya (2004), Don (2006/I), Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007), Positive (2007/II) and adornment in Luck by Chance (2009))
In all his movies he alone uses the song lyrics accounting by his ancestor Javed Akhtar.
His movies frequently accept some sequences attempt in Goa, India. Until 2009, about every cine that he has directed and/or produced has had some genitalia attempt there e.g. - Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Don (2006/I), Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007), Rock On!! (2008), Luck by Chance (2009).
His every cine appearance one affiliation song, through the lyrics of which the advance characters are conversing or debating over article (e.g. the song 'Jaane Kyun' in Dil Chahta Hai (2001), 'Agar Main Kahoon' in Lakshya (2004) and 'Aaj ki Raat' in Don (2006/I))
His adjustment acting
His different croaking articulation in his acting as able-bodied as singing
Trivia
Son of acclaimed Indian lyricist/poet Javed Akhtar and cine and adventure biographer Honey Irani. Twin brother of Zoya Akhtar, accessory of Kabir Akhtar, and grandson of Jan Nissar Akhtar.
In an account on the allocution appearance "The Lounge" with Simone Singh (on the Indian approach CNBC-TV18), Akhtar said that back he larboard college, he spent about two years at home and did annihilation productive. During those two years, he watched about two films daily. Akhtar said that it was this aeon of his activity which accustomed him to affix with Karan Shergill, the advocate of Lakshya (2004). Lakshya, which blur Akhtar directed, begins with Karan as a young, unemployed slacker who stays at home, sleeps late, and has no appetite or aim in life.
He loves to address poetries in English and Urdu.
Endorses German watch cast - A Lange.
He directed the music video for the 1998 hit song "Breathless" from the admission anthology of Shankar Mahadevan, which fabricated him famous. Later on Farhan Akhtar and Shankar Mahadevan went on to coact in every cine Farhan directed, with Shankar basic the music for his films as the leash Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa).Farhan did article actual anarchistic in Bollywood by singing all his songs himself for the cine Rock On!! (2008) as the cine featured him as a rockstar. Afore this cine a actual few added actors acquire done article agnate but aloof for one song and that too experimentally, but Farhan by application his own articulation adapted an age-old absurdity which had become a barometer of Hindi movies, i.e. the articulation of the amateur alteration during songs because of a absolutely altered articulation of playback accompanist lending his/her articulation in the song for the amateur on screen.
He is absolutely one day earlier than amateur Hrithik Roshan, who's a abutting acquaintance in claimed life.
Personal Quotes
[on his aback isolating from the alien apple during the cutting of Karthik Calling Karthik (2010) - June (2009)] It was the attributes of the appearance I was playing. He's a guy absent in his world. So I was authoritative an accomplishment to abstract myself. Lately I've aloof been switching off from the apple for the account of my character. If you demand to alarm it adjustment acting, so be it.
[(February 2009) On the appellation arrangement of his sister's blur Luck by Chance (2009), which presents actual humanely the aggregation alive abaft the scenes in films] At the end of the day back you are working, that's the accuracy of it. I beggarly allure is article that comes from applause by bodies who admire their stars from watching their movies. That adds to glamour. But back you are working, today especially, clashing afore in 1994 back I was an assistant, there was a lot added hierarchal affectionate of a system, you couldn't absolutely go upto the advance amateur and alpha talking to them, but now anybody treats anniversary added with a lot added respect, they acquire that addition is putting on chiral labour. It's not 'creative' labour admitting but at the end of the day he is alive absolutely adamantine to accomplish abiding your blur looks a assertive way. We capital that to put this in a bit of focus in this film.
[(February 2009) On why his blur Luck by Chance (2009) was begin too apathetic paced by viewers] It's a altered pace, I agree. All films will acquire a altered pace. It's important for the admirers to appearance a cine as it is meant to be. You can't go in to a cine with a pre-conceived angle that I demand to go in and acquire fun or something. You acquire to acquire what a blur is. Life, 'as' a film, unfolds at a altered clip depending on altered affectionate of stories. The cine is a lot about introspection. It's ambidextrous a lot with what's activity on aural people's lives, aural their characters. And there are so abounding characters, it's not a beeline adventure with one actuality actuality followed through and through so it will booty a little bit of time to anatomy up. Because in the aboriginal bisected you are communicable up with so abounding altered characters, 'establishing their lives', so it may assume a little broadcast which at times may be a little backbreaking to watch but that's the attributes of the adventure and you can't escape that.
[February 2009] I alone feel that back we (the Indian audience) are acclimated to watching a assertive affectionate of ball (the archetypal acceptable bollywood movie) it'll booty time for everybody to move on from assured a accepted archetypal Indian cine and acquire a altered affectionate of a cine like say Rock On!! (2008) or A Wednesday (2008). It will booty a while for such movies to maybe attain a huge blockbuster cachet but, boring but surely, bodies will apprehend that accept we charge to administer ourselves to watching a movie.
[Feb. 2009 - on actuality asked if he'll act some time in a cine directed by himself] No. I don't intend on administering myself in a movie. At atomic not in a abreast future.
[Spoken in his 30th Jan 2009 Luck by Chance (2009) appropriate adventure of "Oye! It's Friday!" (2008), back asked, why all of his movies acquire some portions attempt in Goa, India] Yeah that's true. Also, his accompanying sister Zoya Akhtar wrote the blur Luck by Chance (2009) in Goa. I don't apperceive what the affiliation is but as accompany we all acclimated to accomplish a lot of trips there and afresh there's a absolutely chargeless array of atmosphere there, you can anticipate actual clearly. And whenever I go to Goa, alike now, I feel that the weight, that is on my shoulders, is gone. I somehow feel that I'm in addition apple and I don't acquire any responsibilities there and so I can aloof be whoever I demand to be after cerebration about what has to come. And apparently aloof to re-live that atmosphere and to accept a good timethat, I assumption Goa is such an basic allotment of our (i.e. Excel Entertainment, his assembly aggregation set up forth with acquaintance Ritesh Sidhwani) artistic process.
[December 2011 - Q: "Who is Farhan the actor's favourite actor?"] I do accept a good timewatching Hrithik Roshan, Aamir Khan, and Ajay Devgan absolutely for the actuality that back you see their anatomy of work, and the anatomy of assignment of best added actors, you apprehension that these guys accompany article new to the table by way of a adventure or character.
[December 2011] I would abhorrence to watch the aforementioned affectionate of achievement over and over again. An amateur charge accumulate arduous himself if he wishes to acquire a absolutely continued innings. Alike as a filmmaker, I accept in bond genres. A blur charge be entertaining. Back I say entertaining, I don't beggarly that you should alone accomplish bodies laugh. You can absorb them with ball or comedy. There should be a faculty of array in storytelling and performance.
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