Farhan Akhtar is celebrating his 49th birthday today on January 9, 2023. Farhan, the second child of famous writers and lyricists Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, has been in the headlines for his professional life as much as he has been in the limelight for his personal life as well. At the young age of 17, Farhan stepped into Bollywood and started off as an assistant director. However, since Javed had married Shabana Azmi in 1984, mother Honey raised her two children by keeping them at their family home in Bandra.
Farhan Akhtar is an atheist
Farhan Akhtar studied at Manekji Kapoor School in Mumbai and took admission in HR College to study law. Farhan Akhtar’s father is a Muslim, but he is a philanthropist as well as an atheist. At the same time, Farahan’s mother was from an Iranian Zoroastrian family and was fair about religion. Honey Irani raised her children without any religious education. Farhan Akhtar has also said many times that he is an atheist.
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Married Adhuna Bhabani in the year 2000
In the year 2000, Farhan Akhtar married hair stylist Adhuna Bhabani, 6 years older than himself. Both had dated each other for about 3 years before marriage. The two met for the first time on the sets of directorial debut film ‘Dil Chahta Hai’. With this film, Bhabani also stepped into Bollywood as a hairstylist. Adhuna also runs a salon called B Blunt. Both have two daughters from this marriage, Shakya and Akira.
Farahan’s name associated with many actresses
On 21 January 2016, after 16 years of marriage, Farhan and Adhuna announced that they were going to separate from each other. Finally, on 24 April 2017, both of them got divorced. The news of Adhuna and Farhan’s separation took people by surprise. After this, Farahan’s name continued to be associated with many Bollywood actresses, in which the names of actresses like Shraddha Kapoor, Aditi Rao Hydari came to the fore.
Photos of Adhuna with Dino Morea’s brother also went viral
Well, with the separation, Bhabani also got the custody of both her children. After this, in the year 2018, Farhan started dating Shibani Dandekar and they got married on 19 February 2022. Both of them got married at Khandala farmhouse without any religious rituals. At the same time, during the divorce, some pictures of Adhuna were also in the headlines on social media, in which she was seen with Nicolo Morea, brother of Dino Maria. Not only this, it was also said that Adhuna’s daughters have also got to see good bonding with Nicolo. Adhuna and Farhan may have separated, but due to the two daughters, there is no visible bitterness in their relationship even today.