Iconic lyricist Javed Akhtar’s most personal tell-all interview. What shaped him

Iconic lyricist Javed Akhtar’s most personal tell-all interview. What shaped him

7 November 2020

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Not politics. Bollywood wars. Kangana Ranaut. Or defamation.

This is intimate landscape. A never before insight into the making of JAVED AKTHAR’s mind.

From his extraordinary mother & estranged father. His alcoholism & divorce. His poverty & poetry. His anger & wit. His atheism & self-belief. His legendary partnership with Salim Khan & why they broke up.

With signature wit — and rare vulnerability — the iconic lyricist, scriptwriter & poet, opens up for the first time about everything that shaped him. And his rocky road to stardom.

“I wasn’t normal. My demons rode me for a long time,” he says. So what saved him from the abyss?