Javed Akhtar
Salim-Javed
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Emerging from a literary family in Gwalior, he spent his childhood in Lucknow and earned a degree from Saifiya College in Bhopal before entering the film world. His early breakthrough came as half of the Salim-Javed duo, whose scripts for Zanjeer, Deewaar and Sholay reshaped Hindi cinema and popularised the “angry young man” archetype; the pair ultimately contributed to twenty-four films, most of…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
