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Javed Akhtar in Dec 2014. Javed Akhtar was born in 1945 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.
Her brother, Asrar-ul-Haq "Majaz" was also a notable Urdu poet, and another brother, Ansar Harvani, was a member of the Indian independence movement and an elected Member of Parliament. Her sister, Safia Akhtar was also a writer and critic, and her nephew is lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar. [1] [2] [3]
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 ...
Sahir's life has been chronicled by Sabir Dutt [26] and by Chander Verma and Dr. Salman Abid in "Main Sahir Hoon" [10] Sahir Ludhianvi: the People's Poet by Akshay Manwani [27] The book is the product of interviews and writings about Sahir by his friends such as Yash Chopra, Dev Anand, Javed Akhtar, Khayyam, Sudha Malhotra, Ravi Chopra and Ravi ...
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]
Asrar-ul-Haq (19 October 1911 to 5 December 1955), better known as Majaz Lakhnawi, was an Indian Urdu poet. He is known for his romantic and revolutionary poetry. He composed ghazals and nazms in Urdu. He was the maternal uncle of poet and screenplay writer Javed Akhtar and Indian-American psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar. [1]
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 ...