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Farhan Akhtar
9 January 1974
Farhan Akhtar played in 2 and created 4 movies in the Drama, Music, Music, Comedy, War, Romance, Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Short genres.
Farhan Akhtar got succeed with average imdb rating 9.7.
Son of renowned Indian lyricist/poet Javed Akhtar and screenplay and story writer Honey Irani. Relation of Zoya Akhtar, cousin of Kabir Akhtar, and grandson of Jan Nissar Akhtar.
In an question on the talk picture "The Lounge" with Simone Singh (on the Indian channel CNBC-TV18), Farhan Akhtar said that when he hand college, he spent approximately two years at home and did nothing productive. During those two years, he watched involving two films continuously. Akhtar said that it was this period of his existence which allowed him to rivet with Karan Shergill, the principal of Lakshya (2004). Lakshya, which film Akhtar directed, begins with Karan as a sophomoric, unemployed slacker who stays at home, sleeps late, and has no ambition or want in enthusiasm.
... He loves to author a register poetries in English and Urdu.
Endorses German circumspect brand - A Lange.
He directed the music video for the 1998 whip song "Astounded" from the initiation album of Shankar Mahadevan, which made Shankar conspicuous. 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 pure unconventional in Bollywood sooner than singing all his songs himself for the silent picture Rock On!! (2008) as the movie featured him as a rockstar. Before this talking picture a very few other actors maintain done something compare favourably with but just for one inexpensively and that too experimentally, but Farhan by using his own voice corrected an maturity-ramshackle error which had become a norm of Hindi movies, i.e. the voice of the actor changing during songs because of a totally contrary voice of playback troubadour lending his/her voice in the song through despite the actor on shield.
He is truly one day older than actor Hrithik Roshan, who's a thorough friend in bosom life.
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