Farhan Akhtar is an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter, playback singer, producer, and television personality who mainly works in the Hindi film industry. He made his Bollywood debut with 2008 film Rock On!! for which he won a second National Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi as producer. He is a son of screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani. He began his career in Bollywood by working as an assistant director in Lamhe (1991) and Himalay Putra (1997).
Farhan Akhtar, after establishing a production company named Excel Entertainment along with Ritesh Sidhwani in 1999, made his directorial debut with Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and received critical acclaim for portraying modern youth in the film, which won the National Award for Best Hindi Film the next year. Following this success, he directed the cult war film Lakshya (2004) and had his Hollywood debut through the soundtrack of Bride and Prejudice (2004), for which he and sister Zoya Akhtar served as lyricists. Next came the commercial successful Don (2006), his third directorial venture, post which he directed a short film titled Positive (2007) to spread awareness on HIV-AIDS .
Last Update : 16/07/2021
Movie Name | Release Date | Role | Verdict |
| Toofaan | 16 July, 2021 | Aziz Ali aka Ajju | Digital Released [Amazon Prime Video] |
| The Sky Is Pink | 11 October, 2019 | Niren Chaudhary | Flop |
| The Fakir Of Venice | 08 February, 2019 | Adi | Flop |
| Lucknow Central | 15 September, 2017 | Kishan Mohan Girhotra | Flop |
| Daddy | 08 September, 2017 | Maqsood / Dawood Ibrahim | Flop |
| Rock On!! 2 | 11 November, 2016 | Aditya Shroff | Flop |
| Wazir | 08 January, 2016 | Danish Ali | Flop |
| Dil Dhadakne Do | 05 June, 2015 | Sunny Gill | Average |
| Shaadi Ke Side Effects | 28 February, 2014 | Siddharth Roy | Average |
| Bhaag Milkha Bhaag | 12 July, 2013 | Sardar Milkha Singh | Super-Hit |
| Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara | 15 July, 2011 | Imran Habib | Hit |
| Karthik Calling Karthik | 26 February, 2010 | Karthik Narayan | Flop |
| Luck By Chance | 30 January, 2009 | Vikram Jaisingh | Flop |
| Rock On!! | 29 August, 2008 | Aditya Shroff | Average |
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- The figures can be approximate and we do not make any claims about the authenticity of the data. However they are adequately indicative of the box-office performance of the film(s).
