• A man once greeted Javed Akhtar thinking he was Gulzar Sahab.
• The latter did not correct him and left him in confusion.
• Javed Akhtar narrated the incident during the launch event of the book Jadunama.

Javed Akhtar, a writer, and lyricist, related a recent incident where a man once welcomed him at the airport thinking he was Gulzar; he did not correct him and left him bewildered.

At the book launch for Arvind Mandloi’s biography of Javed, Jadunama, Javed related the story. Gulzar Sahab called him to the stage with him.

The Kal Ho Na Ho song writer revealed: “Shabana and I were at the airport, when the airline staff asked us to sit and said they will get our luggage. Shabana was sitting right next to me when a gentleman approached me and said, ‘Adaab Gulzar saab!’ I responded with an adaab too.”

“He then wondered, ‘How come Gulzar saab is at the airport?’ I told him that Javed Akhtar saab is coming, so I am there to receive him!”

Akhtar added: “He got confused that such a big man has come to receive Javed Akhtar? He asked me, with disappointment in his voice, ‘You are here to receive Javed Akhtar? I replied, ‘I always come. Wherever Javed Akhtar is coming from, I always receive him at the airport.’

The man, in disappointment and confusion, said: “Acha… Chalta hu Gulzar saab”..

Javed Akhtar claims that although they don’t resemble one another physically, modern individuals of ordinary intelligence nonetheless behave similarly to Kabad Khaana.

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