Javed Akhtar Biography, Age, Height, Weight, Secrets, Affairs, Images, Marriage, Phone number.

Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, & screenwriter. He is one of the most successful scriptwriters of Bollywood and is noted to be the first scriptwriters to achieve the star status.

Javed Akhtar Bio/Wiki

Name	Javed Akhtar
Nickname	Jadoo
Profession(s)	Lyricist, Screenwriter, Poet
Date of Birth	17 January 1945
Age (as in 2019)	74 Years
Zodiac/Sun Sign	Capricorn
Birth Place	Gwalior, Gwalior State, Central India Agency, British India
Home town	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Mother Tongue	Not Known
Parents/ Father	Jan Nisar Akhtar (Songwriter & poet)
Mother	Safia Akhtar (Singer)
Brother	Salman Akhtar, Shahid Akhtar
Sister	Uneza Akhtar, Albina

Personal Life

School	Not Known
College/University	Safiya College, Bhopal
Education Qualification	Graduate in Arts
Contact number	Not Known
Address	702/Sagar Samrat, Green Field Road, Near Juhu, Mumbai- 400049
Religion	Atheist
Caste	Not Known
Nationality	Indian
Car	Not Known
Hobbies	Watching Cricket
Debut	As a Screenwriter (with Salim Khan): Andaaz (1971) As a Screenwriter (Solo): Betaab (1983) As a lyricist: Silsila (1981)
Awards/Achievements	1), Awarded the Padma Shri in 1999. 2), Honored with Padma Bhushan in 2007. 3), 5-time National Award winner for Best Lyrics for the movies- Saaz (1996), Border (1997), 4), Godmother (1998), Refugee (2000) and Lagaan (2001). 5), In 2013, received the Sahitya Akademi Award (Urdu), India’s second-highest literary honor, for his poetry collection- ‘Lava’

Marital Status/Affairs

Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	Honey Irani Shabana Azmi
Wife/Spouse	Honey Irani, Ex-wife (Screenwriter & Director),       Shabana Azmi, Actress (m. 1984-present)
Children	Son- Farhan Akhtar (son from the first wife) Daughter- Zoya Akhtar, Elder (daughter from the first wife)

Salary/Networth

Salary	Not Known
Networth	Not Known

Physical Status

Height	In Centimeters- 165 cm In Meters- 1.65 m In Feet Inches- 5’ 5”
Weight	In Kilograms- 75 kg In Pounds- 165 lbs
Figure	Not Known
Shoe size	8
Hair color	White
Eyes color	Dark Brown
Skin color	Fair

Javed Akhtar Favorites

Favorite food	Kebabs, Vanilla Ice-Cream, Aloo Gosht Ka Shorba, Biryani
Favorite Song	Not Known
Favorite Actor	Dilip Kumar
Favorite Actress	Not Known
Favorite Sport	Cricket
Favorite Place	Not Known
Favorite Movie	Not Known
Favorite Colours	Not Known

Social Media Accounts

Instagram	https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/javedakhtar/top/
Facebook	https://www.facebook.com/JavedAkhtarJadoo/
Twitter	https://twitter.com/Javedakhtarjadu

Javed Akhtar Some Lesser-Known Facts

• Does Javed Akhtar Drink alcohol: Not Known
• Does Akhtar Smoke?: Yes
• Not many people know that Javed Akhtar’s parents initially gave him the name-“Jadoo”. Interestingly, the word Jadoo was taken from a poem written by his father. The particular line containing the word reads- “lamha, lamha kisi jadoo ka fascina Hoga.
• In hopes of making it big in Bollywood, Akhtar came to Mumbai in 1964. However, he had no place to take refuge under. He spent days without any food, sleeping beneath the trees or in corridors before finally finding shelter at Kamal Amrohi Studio in Jogeshwari.
• The future writing duo Salim-Javed (Salim Khan & Javed Akhtar) first met on the sets of the film ‘Sarhadi Lootera’ (1966), wherein Salim was an actor and Javed was a ‘clapper boy’. However, the latter was later promoted to the ‘position’ of dialogue-writer as the director was unable to find one.
• Although they split up in 1982, some of the scripts that they had written by that time were later adapted into films like Zamana (1985) and Mr. India (1987).
• Coincidentally, Akhtar and his first wife, Honey Irani, share the same date of birth- 17 January.