As Farah Khan celebrated her 61st birthday on Friday, actor Vivaan Shah shared a heartfelt throwback from her 2014 film Happy New Year. He affectionately referred to her as his “Bob Fosse” and “Moliere.”
Vivaan took to Instagram to post a nostalgic picture from the Happy New Year shoot. The image featured him alongside Shah Rukh Khan, Farah Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, and Sonu Sood.
“Happyy Happyy Happiest Birthdayyy @farahkhankunder! Our Bob Fosse and our Molière as well! A visionary, a humorist, a satirist, a cinema scholar, and one of the kindest, warmest, most awesome and entertaining human beings on planet earth! You’re a rockstar! Love you lotsss Ma’m,” he wrote.
Happy New Year is an action-comedy film that also stars Deepika Padukone and Jackie Shroff. Originally planned in 2005, the project was shelved for unknown reasons, allowing Farah Khan to direct Om Shanti Om and Tees Maar Khan instead.
In the film, Charlie assembles a team of non-dancers to participate in a dance competition at a hotel in Dubai, all while plotting a diamond heist. The script of the film is preserved in the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Vivaan, the son of Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak, made his film debut with Saat Khoon Maaf in 2011. He subsequently signed a three-film deal with director Vishal Bhardwaj. His recent project is Ikkis, directed by Sriram Raghavan.
This film also features Jaideep Ahlawat and Simar Bhatia and is based on the life of Arun Khetarpal, the youngest recipient of the Param Vir Chakra award, focusing on the Battle of Basantar during the 1971 India–Pakistan War. The film’s title refers to the age at which Arun Khetarpal became a martyr.