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Ek Deewana Tha, under the Fox Star India banner has been soaring up the popularity charts recently. Termed as the first Hindi Romantic musical, the movie has gained prominence through the magical composition of AR Rahman’s music which has been...
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Deewana Tha, under the Fox Star India banner has been soaring up the popularity charts recently. Termed as the first Hindi Romantic musical, the movie has gained prominence through the magical composition of A.R Rahman’s music which has been interwoven...
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Indian poet Javed Akhtar (C) listens to Carl Ernst during Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in Jaipur on January 24, 2012. A planned video address by British author Salman Rushdie to an Indian literary festival was scrapped on Tuesday because of security... View Photo »
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Indian cinema has a wonderful heritage. It would be really sad if people forget it. And these are stories of 13 people who started from almost nothing and gained so much success through the years
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DESTINED TO COME TOGETHER Two Geniuses Unite Some of the most famous hits, cult films and solid characters created in Indian cinema were the works of the hit script writing pair Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan. Salim Khan, a boy from Indore, came to Mumbai...
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Deewana Tha , under the Fox Star India banner has been soaring up the popularity charts recently. Termed as the first Hindi Romantic musical, the movie has gained prominence through the magical composition of AR Rahman’s music which has been interwoven...
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Jagjit's wife Chitra and grandson Armaan were also present here. Ghulam Ali sang the famous song Chupke chupke raat din and also spoke about their friendship and journey together as artists. Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi too shared some fond memories...
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Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter Prasoon Joshi (2ndL) speaks as Javed Akhtar (2ndR), poet Gulzar and Indian director Vishal Bhardwaj (L) looks on during Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in Jaipur on January 23, 2012. British author Salman Rushdie... View Photo »
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We don’t know how to read the Urdu script. I spoke to Javed Akhtar saab and invited him home. I wanted him to come over and read it out for us.
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Ambani came in with son Akash for a performance by band ‘Remember Shakti’ which was in concert after a gap of six years. Shabana Azmi with Javed Akhtar and Kumaramangalam Birla were seen in rapt attention as musicians including Zakir Hussain and John...
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Some of the stalwarts from the world of music participated in this fusion music concert that was held on Tuesday night. While Shankar Mahadevan, Ustad Zakir Hussain, John McLaughlin, U Shrinivas and V Selvaganesh performed at this musical do, many...
About Javed Akhtar
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Javed Akhtar (Urdu: جاوید اختر; Hindi: जावेद अख़्तर), (born January 17, 1945) is an Urdu and Hindi (Hindustani) poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed. Akhtar continues to be prominent in Bollywood... Full Article
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Famous Indian poets, lyricists and script writer Javed Akhtar, left, talks on a mobile phone as Gulzar looks on during a session on 'what is a story', at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, India, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.
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Famous Indian writer and lyricists Javed Akhtar, right, talks with writer, poet and lyricist Gulzar during a session on what is a story, at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, India, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.
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Indian Bollywood personalities Shabana Azmi (C) with husband songwriter Javed Akhtar (R) and actress Pooja Batra pose during the DVD launch for the Hindi film 'I am Kalam' in Mumbai on January 11, 2012.
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Indian Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi (2nd L) with husband songwriter Javed Akhtar (L), Gulshan Grover (2nd R) and producer Sushilkumar Agarwal (R) pose during the DVD launch for the Hindi film 'I am Kalam' in Mumbai on January 11, 2012.
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Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter Prasoon Joshi (2ndL) speaks as Javed Akhtar (2ndR), poet Gulzar and Indian director Vishal Bhardwaj (L) looks on during Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in Jaipur on January 23, 2012. British author Salman Rushdie is to address an Indian literature...
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Famous Indian poets, lyricists Gulzar, right, Javed Akhtar, second right, lyricist, poet and screenplay writer Prasoon Joshi, second left, and filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj at a session on what is a story, at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan,...
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Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar and his wife, actress Shabana Azmi, stand in front of a hotel in Toronto, June 22, 2011. The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards will be held in Toronto on June 25.
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Indian Bollywood actor and playback singer Kishor Kumar's son Amit Kumar (R) and Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar celebrate in Kishor Kumar's memory his 75th birthday at Gauri Kunj in Mumbai on November 21, 2011.
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Famous Indian poets, lyricists and script writer Javed Akhtar, left, talks on a mobile phone as Gulzar looks on during a session on 'what is a story', at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, India, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.
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