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Why it's fun being Farah Khan
Updated On: 31 March, 2024 07:58 AM IST | Mumbai | Mitali Parekh
Her reels inspire spoof reels, there’s a food show in her kitty, and roast chicken and yakhni pulao stirring in the kitchen three times a week for friends. The director choreographs social media well too
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It comes as no surprise that Farah Khan does her own social media—shooting, editing, setting it to music and staying away from trends. They are mini creativity shots, the most fun you can have with Khan without being in her inner circle that comprises a gamut of constellations: There’s, of course, Karan Johar, SRK, Anil Kapoor, etc; Her work crew at Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, Malaika Arora, Arshad Warsi; production department HODs, hovering over tubs of aforementioned pulao or chicken, eating together on Mondays; The younger lot, like Ananya Pandey, whom she has seen grow up and been fast friends with their parents; The “alternate universe” that Johar calls her coterie of Patralekha, Rajkummar Rao and Huma Qureshi; and then the bunch that has been playing Articulate together for 20 years (“We make our own cards now; we ran out of all the provided ones 15 years ago”), which includes Malaika, Arvind and Tanya Dubash, Farhad Taraporewala, Shweta Bachchan, Rahul Bose, Kajal Anand and a bunch of rotating cast (“‘Aye, bring someone with you no’ we tell each other when we get bored …”).The last lot there are no pictures of, except for the one that the winner takes for bragging rights.
So, all her life is not on her Instagram, and certainly not selfies taken in special clothes. “I first consider what is entertaining,” says Khan, in the expanse of her joyously appointed—and inhabited—living room. “I find it boring taking pictures of myself. People spend lakhs of rupees [to hire a hair and make-up person, a stylist, a photographer] on one evening, go to a party to just take pictures, and then they have to upload them immediately—after they edit them and apply filters. ‘But when did you have fun?’ I want to ask them.”
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