Farhan Akhtar on a high

The actor-filmmaker who's a self-confessed adventure-addict, takes off on weekends to pursue sky-diving

Aakanksha Naval-Shetye (DNA; January 28, 2013)

Farhan Akhtar who's a self-confessed adrenaline junkie has now gotten addicted to a new adventure sport — sky-diving. Insiders reveal that the filmmaker-actor takes off on his week-ends whenever possible, to pursue this new-found passion. "Farhan had first tried sky-diving for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. And since then he's been addicted to it and would make it a point to do it whenever he travelled abroad. However, now that it's possible here, he heads to the outskirts of the city for it. What's even better for him is that the sky diving instructor is the same guy who had trained him in ZNMD," says a source close to Farhan.

"Now that Farhan's quite a pro at it himself, he's done it so often that perhaps even he's lost count of the number of times he's done it," adds the source. In fact, the actor went sky-diving recently again, and showed off his patriotic streak by flying off with the tricolour. Farhan even tweeted his pic wherein he is mid-air with the flag. "Happy Republic Day. Jai Hind," posted Farhan.
The actor — whose film Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra biopic on Olympian Milkha Singh, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is under post production — is meanwhile gearing up for his next film Shaadi Ke Side Effects. The film will see him pair up with Vidya Balan for the first time and Farhan is said to be looking forward to working with her.