Javed Akhtar and Gulzar Friendship: Very few people know when and how veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar and Gulzar met for the first time. In which film both have worked together and how this relationship has been maintained for the past 5 decades. Let us know:
An example of some people’s friendship is given in Bollywood. One of them is Javed Akhtar and Gulzar Sahab. The friendship between the two is amazing. For the past 50 years, this friendly relationship is still intact. Recently, Gulzar published Javed Akhtar’s book ‘Jadunama’, the title of which is derived from Akhtar’s pen name Jadoo. After that, they started talking about the friendship of the two.
Let us tell you that Javed Akhtar and Gulzar’s friendship started in 1971 with Ramesh Sippy’s Andaz. Both met here. While Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan were given the opportunity to script ‘Andaz’, Gulzar was tasked with writing its dialogues. Shammi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Rajesh Khanna and Simi Garewal played the lead roles in this movie.
Friendship started with the movie ‘Andaz’
Javed Akhtar recalled the stories of his friendship with Gulzar Sahib at the time of his book’s release. He said, ‘Gulzar Sahab wrote the dialogues and we wrote the additional script. The film became a hit and Gulzar Sahab and I became good friends. We don’t meet often, but whenever we do, we talk for hours,” Javed Akhtar said, adding that “we still write letters. We talk about what we have written and what each other has read. The good thing is that I have the advantage because I remember most things and he doesn’t remember much.
There is no competition between us
Talking about his friendship with Gulzar, Javed Akhtar said that there was never any competition between us. We always encouraged each other. He said that our writing styles are different from each other but one thing we have in common is that we both write well. Our friendship is similar to that of Kaifi Sahab and Sardar Jafri Bhai. I have praised Gulzar sahab many times for those songs he wrote 20 years ago.
Gulzar is learning the nuances of Hindi from Javed Akhtar
On the other hand, Gulzar said that he often takes Akhtar’s help to learn the nuances of Hindi as he is not well versed in the language. He said that ‘I am not a very educated person. I failed college. Whenever I am at a loss for words in Hindi, I call Javed Sahab.
Gulzar Sahab reached out for the publication of Javed Akhtaka’s book Jadoonam. On the occasion, Javed Akhtar called Gulzar Sahib ‘the month of Eid’. Javed Akhtar said he was grateful to him for publishing the book. He said, “Eid moon has a minimum guarantee that it is visible only once a year, even this minimum guarantee is not available with them”. Javed Akhtar said, ‘I am thankful to Gulzar Sahab. He doesn’t move much and I’m glad he came here to publish my book.
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