Javed Akhtar came to become a Mumbai hero. Here he had to face financial crisis, then became a pair of Salim-Javed. Earlier, he became friends with Sanjeev Kumar.
Javed akhtar biography: Javed Akhtar was fond of films since childhood. When he went to the first grade, the teacher asked him that he wanted to go to the zoo, watching the film, Javed had chosen to watch the film in Basant Bihar Talkies. At that time he saw the fire movie. They were so impressed by this that just wanted to become a hero. After this, when he came to college to graduation, everyone was educated at home, so while maintaining this tradition, I also started reading literature. He used to keep reading the mind throughout the day.
The desire to meet Gurudutt remained incomplete
Javed Akhtar told in the podcast of Komal Nahata that he used to read a lot of novels. After this, they used to think about the film on it, what will be his scenes if a movie is made on this story. He himself said that he got sick for 15-16 years. At that time he used to tell his friends that I am not doing this study to do jobs, this is what the education status of the celebrity is printed in the magazine, it would have been written mostly … Most education is done at home … I am graduating to change this status. After studying, I had decided that I would become an assistant of Gurudutt or Raj Kapoor. Then I will become a hero or director, but Gurudutt Saheb died 7-8 days after coming to Mumbai. Then he could not go to RK Studio for 5-6 years.
Work on so much salary for Kamal Amrohi
When Javed Akhtar came, he was to become a hero, but the first break was given to him by Kamal Amrohi, that too to help in writing the script. He was making Shankar Hussain at that time. After this, he became friends with Sanjeev Kumar on the set of this film. After this, Kamal Amrohi got a job of Rs 50 a month. However, earlier he used to sleep under the stairs at Khar railway station in Mumbai. He laughed and said that I did not sleep alone, even two or four dogs used to sleep with us.
Salim- Javed has written superhit films like “Zanjeer”, “Wall”, “Sholay”, “Mr. India”. He has received many prestigious awards for “Saaz”, “Border”, “Lagaan”.