Farhan Akhtar and Naseeruddin Shah’s confrontation scene in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is among the film’s most emotional sequences. Naseeruddin Shah plays an absentee artist father to Farhan Akhtar’s character in the film. Recently, Farhan revealed that shooting the scene brought up his feelings about his own father, Javed Akhtar, and their dynamic when his parents got separated.

Speaking to Galatta Plus, Farhan said, “I didn’t have that many lines. The lines belonged to Naseer Sahab, and he is incredible. So I had to just sit and listen to him. It was easy to react; it was easy to respond. What became difficult in that scene was having to do it over because that scene cannot be a performance."

He added, “It had to feel like the boy is hearing it for the first time, and the more we had to

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