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Birthday special: 10 things we might not know about Javed Akhtar
- Updated: January 17, 2017
Javed Akhtar
1) Javed Akhtar’s genuine name is Jadu, taken from a line in a poem penned by his father, “Lamha lamha kisi jadu ka fasana hoga”. He is famous as Javed given it is a closest to a word Jadu.
2) Javed and his initial mother Honey Irani, whom he met on a sets of ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’, share a same birth date, Jan 17.
3) Javed Akhtar is an non-believer and he has lifted his children, Farhan and Zoya Akhtar, as atheists too.
4) Javed Akhtar used to support Urdu producer Kaifi Azmi. He subsequently married Kaifi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after his matrimony to Honey Irani finished in a divorce.
5) When Javed Akhtar arrived in Mumbai in 1964, he was a homeless male but any food or shelter. He struggled to find work in a Hindi film industry. He used to nap underneath trees, or in corridors, until he took preserve in Kamal Amrohi Studio in Jogeshwari.
6) Salim Khan met Javed Akhtar for a initial time while filming ‘Sarhadi Lootera’, where Salim was an actor and Javed was a clapper boy. Javed was after done a dialogue-writer of a film as executive SM Sagar was incompetent to find one.
7) As a script-writing duo, Salim ideated stories and Javed helped him with dialogues. Javed wrote his scripts in Urdu that were afterwards created out in Hindi by his assistant. Another partner would form out a one-line outline in English.
8) Back in a ‘70s, scriptwriters weren’t given credit on film posters. On not removing a suitable recognition, Salim and Javed motionless to paint their names on a posters of a films they have worked on.
9) Javed and Salim separate in 1982 due to ego issues. Of a 24 films they wrote, 20 were hits, including 2 Telugu films – ‘Manushulu Chesina Dongalu’ and ‘Yugandhar’ and one Kannada film – ‘Premada Kaanike’.
10) Javed Akhtar has won a Filmfare Award fourteen times – 7 times for Best Script, and 7 times for Best Lyrics. He has won a National Award 5 times. In 2013, he perceived a Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu, India’s second top literary honour, for his communication collection ‘Lava’.