Director-actor Farhan Akhtar learnt how to ride a bike for his upcoming film Karthik
Calling Karthik and says it was actually ‘uncool’ to do that at 30 plus.
“It was quite uncool for me to learn biking at 30-plus. This is something that people do much earlier,” Farhan said.
“Initially, I didn't bike because my mother had taken a promise from me, since she was always worried that something will happen. I was quite accident-prone. But it was a requirement in the script to ride a bike; so I learnt it,” he added.
Karthik Calling Karthik also features Deepika Padukone and Shefali Shah.
Talking about his experiences of working with Deepika for the first time, he said: “It's been a lot of fun working with Deepika. We got along very well while shooting. She is quite on the ball as far as her work is concerned and quite in tune with her character, constantly wanting to improve herself. For this she works very hard. She listens a lot to what the director wants and kind of adapts herself that way. It is nice to see someone relatively young trying to keep improving.”
On Deepika looking taller than him in the film, Farhan said he didn't do
anything special to look tall. “I wore heels and she wore flats,” he joked, quickly adding: “on a serious note, I really didn't do anything. She definitely is a tall girl, but I didn't do anything to look taller.”