Renowned writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar participated in ABP Network’s ‘Ideas of India Summit’ special. During this he answered many questions. Javed Akhtar was asked how a successful pair like Salim Javed broke up. Responding to this, he said that our couple had come of age.
Speaking about the Salim-Javed couple, Javed Akhtar said, “If you enter into some kind of agreement in a partnership, it’s easier to keep it. The writing partnership is different from any kind of agreement. You don’t have a scale either.” To support the work of others. If people are different in their work, then there are some common things and some different things. But the point is that the basic things have to be the same, that they have to be followed.
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He said: “Our pair was old, so we had to break our pair.”
He said that he misses this couple and especially their children (Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar) are very close to Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar said that their family is very close and always stays together.
The 1973 film that made Amitabh Bachchan an overnight superstar and made him known as the angry young man was ‘Zanjeer’. This movie was solely written by Salim-Javed. It even goes so far that Prakash Mehra cast Amitabh in this film only after Salim-Javed’s recommendation. Apart from ‘Zanjeer’, Amitabh’s ‘Majboor’ (1974), ‘Deewar’ (1975), ‘Sholay’ (1975), ‘Iman Dharam’ (1977). ‘Trishul’ (1978), ‘Don’ (1978), ‘Kala Patthar’ (1979), ‘Dostana’ (1980), ‘Shaan’ (1980) and ‘Shakti’ (1982) were also written by duo Salim-Javed Are.
