By
RUBY ZAIDI
August 10, 2024
Actor, Singer, Writer, Director, Producer Farhan Akhtar has reacted to the emergence of “alpha male” characters in films these days. In an interaction with media Farhan Akhtar spoke very honestly and frankly.
I asked, ” What’s your take on Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal, directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga because the portrayal of male characters in the movies that you have been a part of, like Dil Dhadakne Do, and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara are also…..?” Farhan said, “Every filmmaker has the right to make a film the way they want.I don’t believe that some things should not be shown. We are in a field where, if someone tells me, ‘You can’t make a film like this’, then I’ll be like, ‘Who are you to tell me what I should and should not make?’ I am permitted by the laws of this country, and I have the freedom of artistic expression to say whatever I want. What the audience wants to listen to, that they’ll decide. I’d never ever tell any filmmaker or writer or producer or anyone, ‘Yaar don’t make this’, or, ‘This kind of movie can’t be made’. To each their own, because I don’t feel that’s right and that’s a dangerous thing to do.”
I asked, ” If it is true women are drawn more towards alpha male characters?” Farhan answered, “There are different types of people in the world. There are people fascinated by different kinds of human beings. So, I am sure there are people who are attracted towards ‘alpha males’.”
Even after receiving a lot of flack from critics and a section of the audience for the way it deals with gender politics and glorifies male chauvinism, Animal emerged as a huge blockbuster, after months of completing it’s run in theatres we are discussing about it, that shows the importance of the movie itself.
Bollywood Reporter asked, ” What’s your definition of alpha male?” Farhan said, “An Alpha means you want to be at the top of the pyramid. That’s basically what alpha means. Alpha male is the leader of a pack. That you want to be the leader of a pack… The minute you get into the discussion of ‘I am better than you’, ‘I am stronger than you’, ‘I am braver than you’, ‘more courageous than you’, I am sure there are actually people like that also, in terms of they’ll be good at dealing with certain situations better than others.”
On the work front, Farhan is busy in making his directorial films Don 3 and Jee Le Zaraa.
