Javed Akhtar

Javed Akhtar bornJanuary 1945 is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Akhtar is a mainstream writer and some of his most successful work was carried out with Salim Khan as half of the scriptwriting duo credited as SalimJaved between 1971 to 1982. He is a recipient of the Padma Shri , Padma Bhushan , the Sahitya Akademi Award as well as thirteen Filmfare Awards.

Javed Akhtar was born in 1945 in Gwalior. His father Jan Nisar Akhtar was a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet, and his mother Safia Akhtar was a singer, teacher and writer. His grandfather Muztar Khairabadi was a poet as was his grandfathers elder brother, Bismil Khairabadi, while his great great grandfather, FazleHaq Khairabadi, was a scholar of Islamic studies and theology and played an important role in the First Independence Movement of India in 1857. Javed Akhtars original name was Jadoo, taken from a line in a poem written by his father Lamha, lamha kisi jadoo ka fasana hoga. He was given the official name of Javed since it was the closest to the word jadoo. He graduated from Saifiya College in Bhopal.

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