Don’s famous song Jisska mujhe ttha intezaar jissle liye dil ttha beqaraar woh ghadi aa gayee played in my head when I saw our own Farhan Akhtar in Episode 4 of Ms Marvel the Disney-Hotstar super-heroine series about a 16-year old girl Kamala(pronounced Kamaala) with super-hero powers who flies to Karachi with her mother…no, not on a flying carpet. The normal way most of us do.
In ‘Karachi’(I doubt in actuality the team has encountered the K of Karachi) there is a big family reunion with Kamala’s Ammi and Naani exchanging veiled sarcastic insults.
Barb re barb!
This is where our own Farhan Akhtar comes in . He plays ‘Waleed’(do they mean Waalid?) the leader of a clandestine community of vigilantes known as Red Daggers. Farhan wears the kind of flowing gown that westerners often robe Easterners with when peddling exotica to the West.
His character is killed in the same episode where is introduced.Is this what Farhan has been preening about?
I am surprised Farhan fell for it. Would he have played the same role in a Hindi/Indian film? It is a minuscule part and has no gravitas about it.Why do our actors run to play skimpy roles in just about anything that is offered to them in international projects?
Incidentally in the announcement of his appearance in Ms Marvel on Twitter Farhan is billed as ‘Farout Akhtar’ which is his ID on his Twitter handle. I rest my case.