I watched him rise from strength to strength. Fadi became a musician - a drummer par excellence, to be precise -and formed a fusion Pakistani rock band called 'Overload' that pounded hearts with their drum and traditional dhol beats and shredded heartstrings with their electric guitars and Fadi's golden voice. I saw him as my own reflection from across the border (so much so that we even had our weddings around the same time and were getting divorced from our short and brief marriages around the same time). 'As we grew up, Fadi and I, both turned out to be the 'artists' in our respective families. and the best post-swim chicken sandwiches at Lahore Gymkhana,' he shared. As a kid, when our family visited them in Lahore, I remember the largest Aloo-Parathas I had ever seen, at their home.

We would wait for the parents to leave for their parties so we could hit 'Excite-Bike' on the 8-bit NES, or watch our favourite movies from the time. 'What does one say about a comet? Or a shooting star? My first memories of Farhad Humayun, or 'Fadi', as I knew him, are from when I was just a toddler and my parents' best-friends -Shahzad Uncle and Nivi Aunty - visited from Pakistan. Recalling his memories with Farhad, Arjun took to Instagram and wrote a lengthy post. The star revealed that he and Farhad were childhood friends. 'Made in Heaven' actor Arjun Mathur is completely heartbroken. Not only from the Pakistani film and music industry but members from the Indian entertainment industry have also taken to social media to pay their respects to the late singer.

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