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Javed Akhtar in Dec 2014. Javed Akhtar was born in 1947 in Gwalior. [8] His father Jan Nisar Akhtar was a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet. [9] 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 ...
He spent his life in Khairabad, Gwalior, and Rampur. He received the titles Eitbar-ul-Mulk, and Iftikhar-ul-Shaura. [4] He died in 1927 in Gwalior, and is buried there. [4] He was the father of poet and lyricist Jan Nisar Akhtar and grandfather of Javed Akhtar and Salman Akhtar.
Jan Nisar Akhtar: Khak-e-Dil (Poetry) 1977 No Award 1978 Yousuf Hussain Khan: Hafiz aur Iqbal (Criticism) 1979 Gulam Rabbani Taban: Nawa-e-Awara (Poetry) 1980 Asloob Ahmad Ansari: Iqbal Ki Terah Nazmen (Literary criticism) [3] 1981 No Award 1982 Gyan Chand Jain: Zikr-O-Fikr (Literary criticism) 1983 Malik Ram: Tazkirah-e-Muasireen (4th Play ...
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 ...
Kaifi Aur Mein, a play based on his life, his works and the memoir of his wife, Shaukat Azmi – Yadon Ki Rahguzar (Down Memory Lane), was written and performed by Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi, and performed in India as well as abroad in 2006. [20]
In 2005, Javed Akhtar was the single nominee, having all the five nominations of this category to his credit (and eventually winning for "Tere Liye" from Veer-Zaara). Akhtar's five nominations in that year also gave him the record for most number of Best Lyricist nominations in a single year, thus surpassing a previous record by Anand Bakshi ...
Jan Nisar Akhtar (18 February 1914 – 19 August 1976) was an Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers' Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood. [ 1 ] He was the son of Muztar Khairabadi and great grandson of Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi , who were both Urdu poets.
Mirza Ghalib is considered one of the leading literary authority on Urdu poetry. [3] He lived in Delhi [4] and died in 1869. The literal meaning of shayar (shaa'ir) is poet. [5] There are more than 30 types of Urdu poetry, also known as shayari. Examples of shayari are ghazal, sher, nazm, marsiya, qita and many more. [6]