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Synonymous with some of the most mellifluous and melodious lyrics and poetry in Hindi and Urdu, Javed Akhtar was born on January 17, 1945 in the erstwhile Gwalior State of Colonial India. His father was the legendary Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet Jan Nisar Akhtar who was also a member of the Progressive Writers' Motion. His mother, Safia Akhtar was a singer, teacher, and author. Javed Akhtar was named Jadoo Akhtar at delivery even so he was officially named Javed Akhtar. He also inherits a familial legacy of 7 generations in which there had been outstanding writers and poets. It is no question that the youthful Jadoo Akhtar turned into a multi-faceted temperament as a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter. His maternal uncle was the popular Urdu poet Asrar ul Haq Majaz even though his grandfather was Iftikhar Hussain Muztar Khairabadi, most famous for his poem 'Main kis ke dil ka ghubar hun'. He is also linked to the thinker and poet, Maulana Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi who participated in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
Javed Akhtar grew up in Lucknow and Aligarh. He dropped his mother while he was a youngster and he was sent to analyze in Colvin Taluqdar's University in Lucknow. Then he moved to dwell with his maternal aunt, Hamida Salim in Aligarh. He researched at the Minto Circle in Aligarh and matriculated from the Aligarh Muslim College and he graduated from Saifiya Higher education in Bhopal.
In 1964, Javed Akhtar moved to Mumbai and his tryst with Bollywood began. He was the scriptwriter for Yakeen which did not sum to any achievement. He shaped a partnership with Salim Khan to get the job done on the makings of Adhikar. G. P. Sippy's Sippy Movies hired Salim-Javed to publish the scripts for movies this kind of as: Andaz, Seeta Aur Geeta, Sholay and Don. He has also published a whole lot of poetry in Urdu outdoors the realms of Bollywood and a chunk of it has been published in Tarkash. He worked with his son Farhan Akhtar in films such as Dil Chahta Hai, Lakshya, Rock On! He worked with his daughter Zoya Akhtar in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.
In 1999, he was conferred the Padma Shri by the Govt of India and in 2007, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan. He has won fourteen Filmfare Awards: 7 instances for Ideal Script and 8 times for Best Lyrics! He has also been a recipient of the National Award, Videocon Screen Award, Zee Award and Lux Zee Cine Award. He won the Countrywide Integration Award from the All India Anti-Terrorist Affiliation and the Avadh Ratan from the Federal government of U.P. and the Hakim Khan Sur Sammaan Award from the Maharana Mewar Foundation, Udaipur. He is member of the advisory board of the Asian Academy of Film & Television.
Javed Akhtar is an atheist. He is married to movie personality, Shabana Azmi.
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