Farhan Akhtar reveals he had stage fear and avoided attending award shows; says, “I was scared, I might have to go up and say something. So I didn’t go!”

One cannot deny the fact that Farhan Akhtar has a good command over words and conquers the stage when he performs on it. The actor’s band, Farhan Live recently completed 10 years. However, the actor admitted that he was not comfortable speaking on stage and has come a long way now.

 

Farhan Akhtar reveals he had stage fear and avoided attending award shows; says, “I was scared, I might have to go up and say something. So I didn’t go!”

 

Hindustan Times quoted Farhan Akhtar saying, “I was not comfortable speaking on stage. If I am going down and doing music, I know what I am supposed to do so it’s easy for me. If I have a conversation with you, it’s still easy because we are engaged in that. But if somebody says ‘go on stage and speak to the crowd for 25 minutes’, there’s a part of me that always wonders ‘why are they interested in what I have to say? What am I going to do, give a PPT presentation?’ That stuff unnerves me,” laughs the 49-year-old.

 

Further Farhan spoke on how his field of work compels him to push his boundaries and come out of the comfort zone. “I come prepared for that. When you play a character, you lose inhibitions because the character allows you that. It’s a strange psychological thing which happens. It’s easier when I am a character. If something makes you nervous, you should do it more so you can ease it out,” he added.

 

Recollecting his past experiences, Farhan said, “It slowly but surely helped me get over it. But when I think about years of Dil Chahta Hai and Lakshya... DCH won a couple of awards. I didn’t even attend those shows because I was scared, I might have to go up and say something. So I didn’t go!”

 

On the work front, Farhan Akhtar will soon be returning to the director’s chair with the road trip movie Jee Le Zaraa, starring Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif and Alia Bhatt.

 

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