Farhan Akhtar turns actor

Farhan Akhtar turns actor
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 17:28 IST
By Santa Banta News Network
Farhan Akhtar ka dil kya chahta hai? "Well I want to direct my next film. But since there's some way to go before I start I've decided to face the camera."

Farhan has agreed to play one of the leads in debutant director Anand Surapur's The Fakir. "It's a very interesting, very down-to-earth , rooted-to-reality kind of script, just my kind of film where I don't have to ‘act-act'...you know what I mean?"

Farhan's wife has already given him a shiny new haircut for the film. "It's really funny how my haircuts have turned me into an anonymous soul. I change my hairstyle so often that people have a hard time recognizing me.

For The Fakir I've got my hair cut the way I think the character should look...It's basically a story about the search for life and how the truth about existence comes to us at the most unexpected junctures of life."

The tv anchor and actor Anu Kapoor plays the other lead. "It's basically a film about these two characters. Kamal Sidhu also plays a part. But that's it. No other major character. I like the intimacy of the script. And I like the director's approach."

Director Anband Surapur originally wanted to cast Saif Ali Khan in the role. "But that didn't work out, for whatever reason," explains Farhan. "So when Anand came to me I immediately said yes. I've known him for a long time."

Thus begins Farhan's career as an actor. He was earlier to make his debut in a film called Honeymoon to be directed by his former assistant Reema. Rituparno Ghosh had also approached Farhan to act in a film.

"But I guess I was destined to be in The Fakir. It's a film in "Hinglish", for want of a better term," Farhan shoots off , as nervous as schoolboy about to attend first day of classes.
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