Javed Akhtar (born January 17, 1945) is an Urdu poet and prose writer from India. The son of Urdu poet Jan Nisar Akhtar, he is also a major script and lyric-writer in the Bollywood film industry of India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 70s and 80s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed .

Contents

1 Credits 1.1 Script 1.2 Lyrics 2 See also 3 External links

Credits

Script

Movies written as part of the Salim-Javed team are marked as such.

• Sholay, 1975 (Salim-Javed)

Lyrics

• Lagaan, 2001
• Veer-Zaara, 2004

See also

• Urdu
• List of Urdu poets

External links