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Salim-Javed were the most sought-after writers in the 70s and 80s, skyrocketing to fame with blockbuster films like Sholay, Zanjeer and Deewar. Producers would line up outside their office, some even offering more money than the film’s lead to secure their scripts. Over the years, Javed Akhtar also wrote lyrics and dialogues for numerous films. However, the veteran writer-lyricist recently shared that his children, Farhan and Zoya Akhtar, have deemed his writing style “outdated”. In a lighthearted moment, he recalled how Zoya once had him pen dialogues for a dog in the 2015 film Dil Dhadakne Do.
He added, “Their first language is English; they dream in English. Mine, however, is Urdu or Hindustani. So, I know the nuances of the language in which they are making the film a little more than they do. Yet, they often tell me, ‘This is too traditional or This feels outdated.’ In the last 25 years, I have written one script for Farhan: Lakshya. I have written a few dialogues for Zoya’s first film Luck By Chance. She initially asked me to write some dialogue, saying I understood the characters better than they did, but after that, she didn’t ask again.”
“Then came Dil Dhadakne Do, where Zoya asked me to write the dog’s dialogues. Nothing more. She said, ‘My father will write the dialogues; nobody can capture a dog’s thoughts better than he can,” quipped the Sholay writer.
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