Salim-Javed Duo To Be Celebrated In Documentary By Salman Khan, Farhan & Zoya Akhtar

Mumbai: The legend of Salim-Javed is known to everyone. They wrote the screenplay of 45 films before parting ways in 1982.

A source of inspiration for countless screenwriters in Bollywood, the duo has been credited with revolutionising Hindi film stories. Now, Salim’s son, Salman Khan and Javed Akhtar’s children, Farhan and Zoya Akhtar are together producing a documentary on their respective fathers and their work, News18 reported. The film will be titled ‘Angry Young Men’ and made by Namrata Rao, who has earlier edited ‘Kahaani’ and ‘Oye Lucky Lucky Oye.’

“The narrative is about two people who came to the film industry from different backgrounds, how they got together and created this unbelievable brand of star writers that the film industry has never been able to replicate after they decided not to work together. It talks about what made them an incredible force in (Hindi cinema),” Farhan Akhtar told Mid-day.

The film will take a deeper look at their work with respect to their films. Farhan also talked about collaborating with Salman Khan. “Their talent as writers individually, together as writers, and this absolute phenomena of Salim-Javed that they had. That to me is an incredible collaboration which I am doing with him (Salman Khan). So I am very very excited about that,” he was quoted as saying.

Among the most popular movies for which they wrote the screenplay are Sholay, Deewar, Zanjeer, Don and Mr India