Film-maker and Director Farah Khan says she will not glorify smoking via her movies. Farah Khan was interacting with the media on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day to spread awareness about the ill-effects of tobacco at an event show here. At an event show for Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA), Farah Khan appreciated how the organisation has been try to spread awareness among crowd not to consume cigarettes and tobacco.
(As a Movie Director, I have pledged that from now on-wards any actor will not smoke in my movies. In my movies, actors don’t smoke usually, but in (Om Shanti Om), the role played by Arjun Rampal smoked a cigarette, and we all-know what happened with him in the end of the …I have made a promise that I will never glorify smoking.”Farah Khan’s close friend Shah Rukh Khan, with whom she has collaborated in many movies, is a smoker.Asked about the advice she would like to give to him, farah said: See, every person is responsible for themselves.
There are so many member in my family who smoke, but after an point, everybody is an adult and they know what they are doing. So, I don’t think we have to preach to anybody. I can to say what I can do as a responsible film-Director. Farah Khan, who is gearing up for her next multi-starrer, recently revealed that farah has collaborated with Rohit Shetty to make an remake of the Bollywood classic (Satte Pe Satta). She is still finishing it’s film script, Farah Khan said.
