Friendship is beyond words, the real friend is one with whom you can sit silent for hours- Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar said on friendship with Bhaskar reporter Arvind Mandloi, ‘Friendship is a great relationship. The rest of the relationships have been given to you, there is no liking and dislike. There is choice in friendship. You make them friends whom you like and they like you. By your own sweet will. There is a saying in English- A friend in Need is a friend indigen, that is, the one who works in bad times is a friend. We always think for the other whether it is my friend or not, will it work in bad times or not. Do not think that we will be useful in its bad times?
‘There is nothing more beautiful than friendship. Being an old friend is a sign of man being good. Friends, there is a huge test of a human being. The word can speak well to anyone. But there is a silence that tells each other what we feel for each other. You cannot thread it into words. You believe it. If you sit near him, then you feel good. Friends are actually the one with whom you can sit silent for hours. Both are sitting silent, not talking but sitting nearby. This is how friendship is.
‘Friends became important for me because I did not have a family. If I had any support at the age of 15-16, he was a friend. I did not have a place to live, nor did I have money to spend. There was no cloth to wear, nor bread to eat. Friends, I supported me to live, how can I forget that. I have a lot of favor, very favor of friends on me. I will remember that till death. Today, when I look back, it seems that my friends were of many types. ‘
Good friends do not always praise each other, they are loyal- Javed Akhtar
‘There were some friends with whom I used to loop only. Some were interested in poetry, I used to talk to him about poetry. Some people of politics were- debaters. With him, the talk of debates, politics and foreign policy was in college era. All these friends have asked me a lot.
‘Friends have given me a lot in their own way. There were some friends who were in good position. He had a house, a car. They have given me help in every way. They also sewed my clothes, gave warm clothes in winter. Food is also fed, the film was also shown. The big thing is that he made my mind so that we can live, even serious thinking, think deeply. Stayed from literature as well and also with gossip.
‘Man goes to him where he feels that this man likes me. If you respect each other, there is love for each other, then friendship will remain. My friendship was because those people were amazing. A friend should be respected in your heart. You are absurd, you joke that is a different thing. But if you are feeling a malfunction in it, then tell me like friends in private. Do not speak it among all of you. Everything is not ‘convey’ in conversation and words.
In Hindi films, the first friends looked like Aashiq-Mashuk. Used to hug. There were dialogues like ‘My darling, my friend, you even asked for your life’. Real friends never speak like this to each other. We have friends in many films, such as Jai-Viru of ‘Sholay’, they never praise each other. Rather, they keep pulling each other’s legs, but are loyal to each other.
‘You trust your friend that you can tell her with grief, sorrow, discomfort, life. And that thing will remain till that. You will also assume your mistakes in front of him that I have done very bad work. He will listen, explain to you, but you will not start thinking of you. His attitude will be fine, it is bad, you should not have done this. Come on now. He understands a lot of your things without saying. The reason for your grief also. He will also entertain you. Let’s walk out, talk. He is a companion of your happiness and sorrow.
‘One of my elders said that you are now in school-college, now make friends. All the friends can make, now make it. Later friends are not found. Business Aquentons will be found later. Those working together will meet. Business people will meet. Or you will meet them by meaning, or they will meet you. Friendship will not do as much as you do in this age, the real friendship will remain. By the way, it is not a full -fledged. But in most cases this is true. When you friendship in school-college, friendship in young age, there is no meaning at that time. It is fun to talk to him, staying with him. He also befriends you. Therefore, friendship is two -way.
‘My friend was Farhan Mujib, due to which I named my son Farhan. He remembers He is no longer in the world. Mushtaq Singh is remembered, which I am wearing hard and will be wearing till death. How much he has helped me! I miss Dinesh Roy. How many meetings have been held with Dinesh Roy. Debate on everything. It seemed that today it would be decided by our debate how India will go ahead. Fateullah was a friend- very vivacity, very good man. He also went away from the world. Mushtaq Singh is in England.