By Hindustan Times
It’s a wrap for Bela Sehgal’s Shirin Farhad Ki Nikal Padi! Just a song for the film’s promotional video must be shot in June, but otherwise, Farah Khan’s Bollywood debut as an actor is within the cans. “Sanjay (producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali) was keen we watch the movie together and we laughed
through it. He’s ecstatic, but I’m more critical. Still, I won’t be embarrassed by it and won’t must skip town as I’d thought. But this may increasingly be the primary and last movie I’ll act in,” insists the choreographer-turned-director-turned-actor.
Farah admits that like Shirin, she too is independent and was a spinster till 40, but her reel-life leading lady is sweeter. Her love story is also very different from Shirish Kunder and her own whirlwind romance: “I started off not liking Shirish, an oddball and chit of an editor always passing caustic comments on my work. But after we got talking, I realised he’s intelligent, knows his job and isn’t afraid to talk the reality. For Shirin, Farhad’s love is all sugar, for us it was more salt.”
She admits waiting at the set for a shot was tedious, because being the heroine she needed to sit pretty and play Trivial Pursuit with co-star Boman Irani. Crying, surprisingly, was easy. “I didn’t need glycerine, I only needed to revisit dark memories of my father’s death, and the tears would flow,” she says.
The film was launched on Boman’s birthday last year on December 2. And Farah admits that romancing Farhad was a breeze. “I only needed to call to mind my son Czar and my eyes would glisten and my face, soften. I REALLY LIKE my daughters, Diva and Anya, too, but since Boman is a guy, Czar was an apt choice,” she reasons. Couldn’t you think that of Shirish? Farah laughs, “Once you've kids, they're your world, but I REALLY LIKE my Farhad too.”
