New crop of actors can't read dialogues in Hindi script: Javed Akhtar
12 Jan 2024 12:47 PM ISTNew Delhi: Veteran lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar says he has to write Hindi dialogues in the Roman script for the new generation of actors today...
Need Javed Akhtar back as screenwriter: Mani Ratnam
11 Jan 2024 12:54 PM ISTNew Delhi: At a time when movies have become all about box office collections, the Indian cinema needs Javed Akhtar back as a screenwriter, filmmaker...
Let love be free of gender politics: 'Animal' team to Javed Akhtar
8 Jan 2024 11:57 AM ISTMumbai: Days after Javed Akhtar took a swipe at "Animal", the team of the Ranbir Kapoor-starrer on Sunday clapped back at the veteran lyricist-writer...
Javed Akhtar believes success of films like 'Animal' is 'dangerous'
7 Jan 2024 12:49 PM ISTMumbai: In an apparent swipe at Sandeep Reddy Vanga's "Animal", veteran lyricist and writer Javed Akhtar has said that commercial success of films...
Isolation of song from story leaves no space for memorable lyrics: Javed Akhtar
27 Sept 2023 10:35 PM ISTNew Delhi: Poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar said lyrics today don’t work the way they did earlier because they are not rooted in a film’s story and its...
Lisa Ray have felt uncomfortable celebrating ‘Afreen Afreen’
10 May 2023 12:12 PM ISTMumbai: Actor Lisa Ray says she wants to be free of her "association" with iconic Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan song "Afreen Afreen". A mix between indie pop...
B-Town mourns the loss of Satish Kaushik
9 March 2023 11:35 PM ISTVeteran Bollywood actor-writer-director Satish Kaushik, remembered as Calendar in the film ‘Mr. India’, passed away at 67 on March 8. His friend and...
'We could no longer work as a team'
22 Jan 2023 9:21 PM ISTSalim Khan and Javed Akhtar worked together as screenwriters for some of the most iconic Bollywood films, such as ‘Sholay’, ‘Don’, ‘Deewaar’,...
Javed Akhtar and Gulzar turned buddies after success of 'Andaz'
11 Jan 2023 1:59 PM ISTMumbai: Not many know that veteran screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Gulzar first met while working on Ramesh Sippy's 1971 romantic drama "Andaz" and...
