One of the things on my bucket list is a Bollywood dance sequence: Will Smith

Grammy Award-winner was in conversation with Farhan Akhtar at a summit in New Delhi today

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 Indian star Farhan Akhtar at the 16th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi today.

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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 cellphone and someone on a cart. The intermingling of the ages and the lifestyle is amazing.”

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The actor said people need to learn the importance of embracing failure. “A lot of people have a wrong perspective on failure. You fail, you correct and then you win. I’ve been lucky enough to embrace failure, I started to develop an ability to get over and embrace the lesson. You learn more from your failures than your successes.”

As for his childhood, he said it “wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be”. “There was violence as I grew up. So I wanted certain things for my kids. What the family, me and my wife have created is the coming together of a 40-year-old dream. I always wanted to get married and have a happy family,” added the father of three.

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