Javed akhtar wife
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Javed Akhtar Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography
As a Screenwriter (Solo): Betaab (1983)
As a lyricist: Silsila (1981)
• Padma Bhushan (2007)
• 5-time National Award winner for Best Lyrics for the movies- Saaz (1996), Border (1997), Godmother (1998), Refugee (2000) and Lagaan (2001)
• Sahitya Akademi Award (Urdu), India's second highest literary honor, for his poetry collection- ‘Lava’ (2013)
• Dadasaheb
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Much of what Javed Akhtar has said to the media during a career spanning some six decades is now saved in the pages of J’adunama: Javed Akhtar’s Journey’.
The 345-page ‘Jadunama’ is as full bodied as the journey of Jadu, one of the country’s most interesting writer, poet, lyricist and political activist.
The word ‘jadu’ means magic in Urdu while ‘nama’ is a farsi word for tales, or memoir. Jadu was the name originally given to Javed by his poet father Jan Nisar Akhtar.
When Javed was born on January 17 1945, Jan Nisar had rushed to the Kamla Hospital in Gwalior from the office of the Communist Party. At the hospital his friends reminded Jan Nisar of the lovely poem that he had written for his bride where he says that every moment after his wedding will be the story of some magic or the other: ‘lamha lamha kisi jadu ka fasana hoga…’
At that moment Javed’s birth had seemed like magic, and Jan Nisar immediately named his first-born Jadu. When it was time for the boy to be admitted in school, Jadu had sounded too informal and he was renamed Javed, meaning eternal. Th
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Apne Baare Mein (About Myself)
When people write about themselves they usually begin with their hometown. Which city should I call my own? Born in Gwalior, it was in Lucknow I came to my senses only to lose them a little later in Aligarh. In Bhopal I sharpened my wits but it was in Bombay that I really came alive. So why don't I just go into a small flashback, it will be easier for you to read and for me to write my story.
City-Lucknow...
Characters: My maternal grandparents, other relatives and I.
I am eight. My father is in Bombay and mother in her grave. The day is spent playing cricket with my younger brother in the courtyard. A fierce looking tutor comes every evening. That he is being paid Rs 15 a month is a fact I am reminded of every day. Each morning I get a half anna and every evening an anna to spend. In the mornings I buy coloured sweets from Ramjilal, the neighbourhood grocer and in the evenings the one anna gets me chaat from Bhagwati the hawker from across the road. It's a wonderful life! School has reopened. I am admitted in class
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