Farah Khan asked him to write absurd lyrics for 'Dard-e-disco': Javed Akhtar

Javed Akhtar, who wrote the lyrics for the song 'Dard-e-disco' for the film 'Om Shanti Om', recently shared that he was instructed to write 'meaningless' lyrics for the track. He mentioned that the director of the film, Farah Khan, specifically asked for such lyrics.

'Om Shanti Om', directed by Farah Khan, starred Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in key roles. On the show 'Cyrus Says', Javed Akhtar revealed that the film's protagonist is wheelchair-bound, and he was asked to pen something nonsensical like 'disco, dance, dream-world'.

He said, "If you are asked to write ‘meaningless,’ it’s a challenge. If you ask somebody to stand up here and speak for 2 minutes, there



shouldn’t be any sense, although many times it happens, but it does not happen on a conscious level. It doesn’t happen on a conscious level. The moment you are aware that you have to speak gibberish, you start speaking sense. This was a situation where the hero in the film is in a wheelchair.”

He admitted that writing 'meaningless' content was a challenge, as the moment one is aware of having to write gibberish, they start making sense. “The director of the film, Farah told me that ‘Javed uncle I want a song in which any line does not have meaning because the whole situation is absurd.’ I realized for the first time that to write gibberish is very difficult. I’m happy that it was fairly meaningless.”