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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 ]
Salim was born in 1922 in Rudauli, in Uttar Pradesh.Her family were zamindars.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.
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.
The first song "Hone Do Jo Hota Hai" composed by OAFF–Savera, written by Javed Akhtar and performed by Savera and Lothika Jha, was released on 30 November 2023. [6] [7] [8] It was then performed live on stage at the 14th edition of the NH7 Weekender music festival, [2] which held from 1–3 December 2023 at Teerth Fields in Pune.
Main Azaad Hoon (transl. I am Free) is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language vigilante film adapted from the 1941 Frank Capra film, Meet John Doe, by Javed Akhtar, about an opportunistic journalist who concocts a fictitious man in a fictitious article to boost newspaper sales, but when the article gets a huge response, she finds an unemployed man to sit in as Azaad, "man of the masses".
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Jeevan Ek Sanghursh (transl. Life is a Struggle) is a 1990 Bollywood film directed by Rahul Rawail, produced by D. Rama Naidu. It stars Raakhee, Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit in the leading roles. The film was successful and was the tenth highest grossing Bollywood film of 1990. [1]