On the 74th birthday of the dialogue and lyrical maestro, Javed Akhtar, we bring you 10 interesting facts about his life and illustrious career that you may not have known.
1. Javed Akhtar’s real name is Jadu, taken from a line in a poem penned by his father, “Lamha lamha kisi jadu ka fasana hoga”. He is known as Javed since it is the closest to the word Jadu.
2. Javed and his first wife Honey Irani, whom he met on the sets of ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’, share the same birth date, January 17.
3. Javed Akhtar is an atheist and he has raised his children, Farhan and Zoya Akhtar, as atheists too.
4. Javed Akhtar used to assist Urdu poet KaifiAzmi. He subsequently married Kaifi’s daughter, Shabana Azmi, after his marriage to Honey Irani ended in a divorce.
This story is from the February 2019 edition of GLOBAL MOVIE MAGAZINE.
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