Overview
- In a new India TV interview, Farhan Akhtar said peer feedback should be delivered privately and called Naseeruddin Shah’s decade-old public remarks "distasteful."
- Akhtar emphasized their long relationship and said his disappointment stemmed from being critiqued publicly by someone who has known him since childhood and worked with him.
- Responding to the renewed attention, Shah told Hindustan Times his earlier statement had been "a bit exaggerated," softening his past wording.
- Shah’s 2013 comments included calling Bhaag Milkha Bhaag "completely fake" and arguing that building muscles and growing hair is not the same as working on acting.
- Coverage links the resurfaced exchange to Akhtar’s upcoming war drama 120 Bahadur, scheduled to release on November 21, with no further escalation beyond these interviews reported.