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Hollywood star Will Smith showed some bhangra moves as he spoke about having a Bollywood dance sequence on his bucket list, while also opening up on his childhood, struggle as an artiste, dealing with failure and setting the goal for himself to be the best movie star in the world.

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Hollywood star Will Smith showed some bhangra moves as he spoke about having a Bollywood dance sequence on his bucket list, while also opening up on his childhood, struggle as an artiste, dealing with failure and setting the goal for himself to be the best movie star in the world.

Smith, an Academy Award nominee and Grammy Award winner who has had a diverse career across films, television and records, was in conversation with Bollywood actor-singer-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar in New Delhi on Saturday.

Farhan taught Smith some bhangra moves, which the Independence Day actor proudly showed off to the audience at the summit. “One of the things on my bucket list is to be on a Bollywood dance sequence,” he said as he recounted meeting former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan 15 years ago and their conversation about doing something together. But it never happened. Perhaps I would do a film with her,” added Smith, who finds the contrast in India “beautiful”.

“On any street corner you could cross a thousand years. There could be someone on a brand new cell-phone and someone on a cart. The intermingling of the ages and the lifestyle is amazing.”

First steps

On the big screen, Smith has regaled cine-goers with movies like Hitch, I am Legend, I, Robot and Men in Black I, II, & III. He even featured in the recent Netflix film Bright. Music is what first set the pace for Smith’s career in showbiz.

“Pop music started in the US in late 70s. I was 12 years old when I took to rap music. First time I heard rap, I knew I had to do it. I had to do it because I knew my parents won’t like it,” Smith said.

He said at one point in his life, he had decided he never wanted to be broke again and set himself a goal to be the best movie star in the world. “After having got a second shot I knew I never wanted to be broke again. I preferred the space of being successful and responsible. I became disciplined. I said to myself I wanted to become the biggest movie star in the world. I wanted to have big giant hit movies that people saw all over the world. So we looked at the top 10 films and tried to find a pattern. We realised they were all special effects movies,” said the 50-year-old. — IANS

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