This weekend on Indian Idol, the celebration of 25 superb years of Farhan Akhtar took an emotional flip when contestant Shreenidhi carried out a stirring track from Farhan’s movie Lakshya. The efficiency opened a heartfelt second on stage, prompting Farhan to share the true inspiration behind creating one in every of his most impactful movies.

Because the applause light, Badshah turned to Farhan with a considerate query: “Did you make this movie solely due to its leisure worth? Or was it additionally pushed by the sensation that you just wished to do one thing for the?”

Farhan’s response left all the studio silent and moved. He started, “There are two facets to this query. Patriotism is one thing we’re all born with. If you watch your mother and father — the work they do, the way in which they love their nation — it turns into part of you. And I consider patriotism is one thing you don’t must shout about. It’s a sense with which you reside your life truthfully and with arduous work — in your nation.” He then shared an essential piece of historical past that formed the movie. “This movie was made across the time Operation Vijay occurred in 1999. My father went to Kargil in 2001. There’s a memorial there for the troopers. An officer instructed him, ‘Individuals are praising the Indian Military for reaching the inconceivable in these mountains.’ And it’s true — only a few armies on this planet can do what they did.”

However what adopted is what sparked the story of Lakshya. “The officer additionally stated one thing unhappy: ‘Yearly, fewer younger individuals apply to turn into officers. It now not looks like a viable profession choice to them.’ He shared this with my father, and my father instructed him, ‘I need to write a narrative to encourage younger individuals to hitch the Indian Military.’ That’s how this story was written.”

Farhan stated that Lakshya formed the way in which he approached cinema thereafter. “After that have, no matter decisions I made — whether or not Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, or now 120 Bahadur — I felt cinema has the ability to ship a message: respect your freedom. Adore it. And always remember the value at which it got here.”

With Shreenidhi’s efficiency setting the emotional stage, Farhan’s revelation gave viewers a uncommon glimpse into the center of a filmmaker who believes that cinema can encourage a nation. For the primary time on the Indian Idol stage, we found the true inspiration behind the making of this movie — a revelation that fantastically echoes the spirit of Indian Idol Season 16, the place each voice carries a journey, a goal, and an unshakable junoon.

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