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Javed Akhtar in Dec 2014. Javed Akhtar was born in 1945 in Gwalior. [7] His father Jan Nisar Akhtar was a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet. [8] His paternal grandfather Muztar Khairabadi was a poet as was his grandfather's elder brother, Bismil Khairabadi, while his great great grandfather, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, was a religious scholar of Islam who declared the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ...
Shabana Azmi with Javed Akhtar, in 2012. Azmi was engaged to Benjamin Gilani in late 1970s, but the engagement was called off. [ 15 ] Later, she married Javed Akhtar , a lyricist, poet and scriptwriter in Hindi films, on 9 December 1984, making her a member of the Akhtar-Azmi film family . [ 16 ]
Irani met the script-writer and poet Javed Akhtar on the sets of Seeta Aur Geeta. They were married on 21 March 1972. She is the mother of film-makers Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar. Zoya was born on 14 October 1972, when her career as a child star had already ended and Javed's career as a script-writer had not yet properly begun.
Salim Khan was born in the city of Indore in Indore State a princely state in British India (modern day Madhya Pradesh, India) into an affluent family.Khan's grandparents, are believed to be Alakozai Pashtuns who migrated from Afghanistan to India in the mid-1800s and served in the cavalry of the British Indian Army.
Zoya Akhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. Born to Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani , she completed a diploma in filmmaking from NYU and assisted directors Mira Nair , Tony Gerber and Dev Benegal , before becoming an independent writer and director.
Javed Akhtar was born on 17 January 1945. Early influences on Akhtar included Urdu novels by Pakistani author Ibn-e-Safi, such as the Jasoosi Dunya and Imran series of detective novels, as well as films like the Dilip Kumar starrers Arzoo (1950) and Aan (1952), Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zameen (1953), Shree 420 (1955) directed by Raj Kapoor and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and Mehboob Khan's ...
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Farhan Akhtar (born 9 January 1974) [2] is an Indian actor, filmmaker and singer who works in Hindi films.Born to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, he established the production company Excel Entertainment, along with Ritesh Sidhwani, in 1999.