NOT Zoya Akhtar, but a new director will direct the Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar documentary-drama : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama

In a lot of the Nineteen Seventies and 80s Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar revolutionized the manner the movie business checked out screenwriting and screenwriters with their stream of phenomenal hits like Zanjeer, Deewaar, Sholay, Don, Trishul, Shakti and Mr India.

Salim and Javed re-wrote the total profile of screenwriters with their uninterrupted run at the field workplace. And now Javed Akhtar’s son Farhan Akhtar and the latter’s accomplice Ritesh Sidhwani of Excel Entertainment are all set to provide a documentary-drama on the Salim-Javed phenomenon.

A supply very near the growth 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.”

There had been rumours that Javed Saab’s daughter Zoya Akhtar will direct the documentary. This is unfaithful. “We are on the verge of finalizing the director. It will be someone new,” the supply informed me.

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