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Known for his work in Hindi cinema , he has won five National Film Awards , and received the Padma Shri in and the Padma Bhushan in , [ 1 ] two of India's highest civilian honours. Akhtar came to recognition in the duo Salim—Javed , and earned his breakthrough as a screenwriter with 's Zanjeer. He went on to write the films Deewaar and Sholay , both released in ; they earned a cult following , and had a significant impact in popular culture.

Javed Akhtar was born in in Gwalior. He was given the official name of Javed since it was close to the word jadoo. He graduated from Saifiya College in Bhopal. Initially, in the s, there was generally no concept of having the same writer for the screenplay, story and dialogue, nor were the writers given any credits in the titles.

Rajesh Khanna is credited with giving Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar their first chance to become screenplay writers by offering them work in Haathi Mere Saathi.

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Devar had given him a huge signing amount with which he could complete the payment for his bungalow, Aashirwad. But the film was a remake and the script of the original was far from being satisfactory. India Of the 24 films they wrote, 20 were hits. The scripts they wrote, but which were not successful at box office include Adhikar , Aakhri Dao , Immaan Dharam and Shaan Though they split in , due to ego issues, some of the scripts they wrote were made into hit films later, such as Zamana and Mr.

Salim-Javed, many a time described as "the most successful scriptwriters of all-time", [ 15 ] are also noted to be the first scriptwriters in Indian cinema to achieve star status. Akhtar was nominated to the Parliament upper house Rajya Sabha on 16 November Farhan was married to Adhuna Akhtar , a hair stylist.