When the information about the arrival of a new director to direct the Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar documentary-drama was made known to the public, rumors spread that Javed Saab’s daughter Zoya Akhtar will direct the documentary. This is untrue.
Salim and Javed have turned themselves into icons as they’ve re-written the entire profile of screenwriters with their uninterrupted run at the box office. And now Javed Akhtar’s son Farhan Akhtar and his partner Ritesh Sidhwani of Excel Entertainment are all set to produce a documentary-drama on the Salim-Javed phenomenon.
In much of the 1970s and 80s Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar revolutionized the way the film industry looked at screenwriting and screenwriters with their stream of phenomenal hits like Zanjeer, Deewaar, Sholay, Don, Trishul, Shakti and Mr India.
A source very close to the development informs, “It will contain extensive interviews with Javed and Salim Saab and also with Amitabh Bachchan whose career was spectacularly amplified by the films that Salim-Javed wrote for him. It will also have extensive footage from the phenomenal films that the duo wrote.”
“We are on the verge of finalizing the director. It will be someone new,” the source added.
