Overview
- In a new India TV interview, Akhtar labeled Shah’s decade-old comments on his Bhaag Milkha Bhaag performance “distasteful” and said he prefers private feedback.
- Shah’s 2013 assessment called the biopic “a completely fake film” and included the line, “I don’t care about Farhan Akhtar, and I don’t watch his films.”
- Responding to the renewed focus, Shah told Hindustan Times his earlier statement had been “a bit exaggerated.”
- Akhtar noted their long association, including working together on Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, which he said made the public critique more disappointing.
- The exchange resurfaced as Akhtar promotes 120 Bahadur, due November 21, in which he portrays Major Shaitan Singh in a Rezang La war drama.