Javed Akhtar just lately shared a hilarious anecdote when a person mistakenly thought he was legendary author Gulzar at an airport. During the launch of Javed’s ebook Jadunama, the veteran screenwriter was joined by Gulzar on stage. While speaking to Gulzar, Javed recalled how one man greeted him at an airport considering he was Gulzar and he performed alongside additional. All these items occurred whereas Shabana Azmi was sitting subsequent to him. Also learn: Javed Akhtar’s snarky touch upon Pathaan row
Javed Akhtar stated the confusion was such that he pretended to be Gulzar and stated he was there to select up Javed Akhtar. He stated, “Shabana (Azmi) and I were at the airport, when the airline staff asked us to sit and said they will get our luggage. Shabana was sitting right next to me when a gentleman approached me and said, ‘Adaab Gulzar saab!’ I responded with an adaab too. He then wondered, ‘How come Gulzar saab is at the airport?’ I told him that Javed Akhtar saab is coming, so I am there to receive him.”
“He got confused that such a big man has come to receive Javed Akhtar! He asked me, with disappointment in his voice, ‘You are here to receive Javed Akhtar?’, I replied, ‘I always come. Wherever Javed Akhtar is coming from, I always receive him at the airport’. The disappointment in his face, that he is a fan of Gulzar, and Gulzar has come to receive Javed Akhtar! He said, with a confused, disappointed tone, ‘Achcha… Chalta hu Gulzar saab,’” Javed added. The incident left Gulzar in splits.
Javed additionally stated that regardless that the 2 aren’t ‘lookalikes’, individuals with ‘average intelligence’ have a tendency to make use of their brains like ‘kabad khana (storeroom).’ In his phrases, he added that in relation to poets, individuals simply put their fingers contained in the storeroom and pull out no matter title they get to deal with them.
Besides this, on the ebook launch, Gulzar learn out a poem, written by him for Javed. The two have typically been thought-about to be one another’s rivals all through their profession with fierce competitors over their songs.