Watch: Javed Akhtar sings along with Pak actor Ali Zafar at get-together in Lahore

Ali Zafar sings the song “Zindagi Aa Raha Hoon Main”, a Hindi song sung by Kishore Kumar and written by Akhtar for the 1984 film Mashaal. (Image: Screengrab from video @harounrashid2/Twitter)

No amount of differences can affect art. Music, art, love all transcend boundaries and a display of this was caught on camera as poet Javed Akhtar jammed and sang along with actor-singer Ali Zafar in a get together in Pakistan.

A retired businessman Haroun Rashid shared the video of Akhtar on Twitter explaining why he was there in Pakistan.

“Such a rare pleasure and a privilege to have an evening of music and poetry with our brothers and sisters from across the border. The master Javed Akhtar Sahib in Lahore-it doesn’t get better than this” he wrote.

Watch the video, viral with over 1.3 million views, here:

It was an honour to host him. I have always believed art & music transcends boundaries and is the best way to bring people together. Love is the ONLY way to peace. Thank you @Javedakhtarjadu sahab for gracing us with your presence. Thank you Faiz sahab for keeping us connected. https://t.co/08lnMT2b6o

— Ali Zafar (@AliZafarsays) February 20, 2023

In the video, Akhtar is seen sitting, surrounded by many people at what seems like the backyard of someone’s bungalow.

An unidentified woman is seen sitting at Akhtar’s feet as she proceeds to what seems like wipe of a tear as she listened to the music. Sitting at his feet and next to the woman was Adeel Hashimi, an actor and renowned poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s grandson.

Ali Zafar sings the song “Zindagi Aa Raha Hoon Main”, a Hindi song sung by Kishore Kumar and written by Akhtar for the 1984 film Mashaal.

Zafar also retweeted the video and wrote: “It was an honour to host him. I have always believed art & music transcends boundaries and is the best way to bring people together. Love is the ONLY way to peace. Thank you @Javedakhtarjadu sahab for gracing us with your presence. Thank you Faiz sahab for keeping us connected.

Akhtar was attending the Faiz Literary Festival of Lahore where he said that Indian artistes had not been welcomed in Pakistan in the same way India has hosted Pak artistes. He also said that 26/11 terrorists are "roaming free" and Indians still have that pain in their hearts pointing at how the relations between the two neighbours have soured.