Farhan Akhtar as a Rockstar!
In fact,
the actor-director is now concentrating on a musical career while he has
also spent a record one-and-a-half years training to play Milkha Singh
in his upcoming film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.
The
musical journey which is known to have started started with Rock On!!
and continued in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is taking Farhan Akhtar on a
completely different track. After having sung altogether eight songs in
the two films, he’s now onto what looks like a serious musical career.
Moreover,
Farhan spoke in Bangalore recently while in a rock concert for college
students Karbonn Colossus 2013 organised by Presidency College about
forming his own band Farhan Live over two months ago,, and that “After
Rock On he wanted to further explore the musical side of things and they
felt the time was right, young people in colleges listen to very
different kinds of music while he was speaking about his decision.
Farhan and his interest in music
Rejecting
the idea that his interest in music is a recent phenomenon, Farhan said
that he have been interested in music as far as he can remember. In
fact a teacher came home and taught singing and playing the harmonium
when they were kids. But he was more of a Beatles person. By the time he
was 17 or 18, he seriously started playing the guitar and that he
taught himself to play it. But as a fact Rock On!! gave him a valid
reason to take his music seriously and it seems all that crowded is
coming to good use now.
Multifaceted Farhan
Farhan is
one of those rare species in Bollywood who is multifaceted enough to be
a director, actor, producer, scriptwriter, playback singer, lyricist
even if it sounds that he is taking on too much.
Perhaps he feels as he says that he don’t know how is it a limitation, and that how can people put a limit on themselves?
Starting
out his journey in the Hindi film industry as an assistant director on
Lamhe, Farhan turned director with the coming-of-age film Dil Chahta
Hai. The film re-set the course of Hindi films in 2001 and it was his
first independent directorial venture and from his own production house
while he was 27.
The great Javed Akhtar is his father..
The great
Javed Akhtar screenwriter and lyricst Javed Akhtar is his father, he
says that he is 50 per cent of his genes while he laughs and continues
saying his father being a prolific writer, was always supportive and
never overbearing and always gave him and his sister (filmmaker Zoya
Akhtar) the courage to go out and try things without wondering if it’ll
work.” In fact, brother and sister was also seen to have worked together
on Luck By Chance and ZNMD.
After
steering the rather-successful Don 2 last year, a sequel to the remake
of the immensely popular Don, Farhan took up a rather challenging
project. He is pushing the envelope with his next release, the much
talked-about Bhaag Milkha Bhaag which happens to be a biographical movie
of the athlete Milkha Singh known as The Flying Sikh, which will
release this July.
The Journey continues...
Farhan
has been in rigorous training to look the part of the man who clocked
45.60 seconds in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. It’s rather unheard
of in Bollywood that an actor dedicates that kind of time for one film.
He says,
that he has actually worked on the film for over one-and-a-half years
and that’s what the film required for him to do justice to it. He
added, he was committed to do it, if that’s what it takes.
Farhan
calls it an “intense experience” and says it’s difficult to put in a few
words the kind of preparation he’s been doing but as a fact what he did
helped him push himself to recreate a legend like Milkhaji and it’s
extremely satisfying.
Moreover,
Milkha Singh also gifted Farhan his Olympic shoes which according to
Farhan is most-prized possession. It’s what he wore and ran in the 1960
Olympics and was restored by the shoe-maker and that he gifted it to
him as a good-luck mascot.
Coming
back to Farhan's music, he says the band is currently performing
previously written material and they are in talks for collaborations,
then hope to work with a music producer to put out original work and do
collabs as well.
Farhan
says that he would like to explore the electronic music side, and hope
to work with the brilliant Shankar Mahadevan, Karsh Kale, Medieval
Punditz while he says it’s a good time, when others want to know about
Indian music.
They are
also meeting with Deep Purple on March 14 in Nepal, and they will decide
what they are doing. He continues saying that it’s an amazing thought
just to share stage with them and he have been to two of their concerts
in India and they are planning to do about two songs together now. In
fact, that the band is also working on incorporating technology and
live-tweeting their concerts.
There
could be no doubt that “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” would be an absolute
power-packed entertainment for us. The count down starts now!
Note: Adaptation from an online sources.
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
