Javed Akhtar to collaborate with Farhan Akhtar on the latter’s next directorial; says, “Hopefully, it would live up to the audiences’ and my expectation of Farhan”

By Subhash K. Jha -

January 10, 2024 - 11:40 AM IST

Javed Akhtar is of the opinion that his son Farhan Akhtar, who turned 50 yesterday, has been let down by some of the scripts that he has accepted as an actor. “If you look at Farhan’s performance in Rock On!! and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, you will see an effortlessness that is hard to find in our cinema. We, as a movie making industry, prefer our actors to indulge in overstatement. Farhan is a subtle actor. He believes in understatement. In some cases, his performances have been let down by the scripts that were meant to support him. An actor can only excel if the script supports him,” says Javed.

Javed Akhtar to collaborate with Farhan Akhtar on the latter’s next directorial; says, “Hopefully, it would live up to the audiences’ and my expectation of Farhan”

As a filmmaker, Farhan is in his father’s opinion a gamechanger. “Dil Chahta Hai burst on the screen with a completely new language and an untried concept of friendship. I can’t wait to see Farhan direct again. We are collaborating on a project. Hopefully, it would live up to the audiences’ and my expectation of Farhan,” said Javed Akhtar.

Javed saab also praises his daughter Zoya’s proclivity to humanize her characters. “If you look at Anil Kapoor in Zoya’s Dil Dhadakne Do, he is not a very good husband and father. Yet, Zoya never allows us to hate the character. She instils a core of compassion even to the character of Ranveer’s father in Gully Boy. The man is a wife beater, and he roughs up his son. But his anger and violence make sense in the world he inhabits,” said Javed Akhtar.

When asked to compare his two children Javed saab opined, “In many ways, they are the same. However, Farhan is far less forthcoming than Zoya. No one knows what’s going on in Farhan’s mind.”

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