MUMBAI: Farhan Akhtar, who will be next seen in Shonali Bose's The Sky Is Pink, revealed that he was told by an actor to give away the script of Dil Chahta Hai. 

In an interview with LatestLY, when he was asked about his personal 'sky is pink' moment, he said, was when he was making his debut directorial, Dil Chahta Hai, in 2001. 

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Farhan said, elaborating on the ideology, "It is difficult to pick one such moment. We all have made choices in our lives when it is not been with the blessings or agreement with everybody else.  When it does pay off, you do feel vindicated one some level, for having made the right choice. For example, there was a time when I was doing rounds of casting for Dil Chahta Hai. An actor that I met at that time, had told me, 'You know what I love the script. But I don't know if you can direct it so why don't you just give me the script and let me produce it and make it myself.” 

He added, "I really dug my heels in and there is no chance I am going to give this script. If anybody is going to make this film it is going to be me. I feel if I had not done that, if I had just given away the script, it would have been a very different career for me." 

Shonali Bose's The Sky Is Pink is all set to release in India on 11 October.