As an actor, director or producer, Farhan Akhtar has broken new ground with every project- and his winning streak continues with Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. He says the film’s ‘biggest’ knock-on effect, however, is that filmmakers now won’t see him just as the ‘cool urban guy’.
‘Of course Bhaag Milkha Bhaag has earned great success in terms of its box office, but I’d like to believe that it has broken, in a lot of people’s heads, this perception about me...that I can only play the cool urban guy. That’s been the biggest fallout and achievement for me from Bhaag Milkha Bhaag,’ Farhan said.
His past films as an actor- debut project Rock On!! in 2008, followed by Luck By Chance, Karthik Calling Karthik and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara- have seen him in a young, chilled out and debonair avatar. In Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s high-on-passion-and-emotion biopic Bhaag Milkha Bhaag on ace athlete Milkha Singh, Farhan’s raring-to-go portrayal of the Flying Sikh made the audience and industry members sit up and take notice of the multi-talented star’s evolving acting acumen.
But, if harping on past laurels was his way, ‘it would the beginning of my end’, says Farhan, who is readying to surprise the audience once again with Shaadi Ke Side Effects.