SCOOP: Netflix in race to buy Zoya Akhtar’s documentary on Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar : Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama

May 31, 2021

Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar are India’s most iconic script writers having delivered few of the largest cults of Hindi cinema. The celebrated author duo modified the panorama of economic cinema and their movies resonate with totally different strata of viewers even as we speak. Earlier final week, there have been stories that Javed Akhtar’s daughter, Zoya, is planning a docu-drama on Salim Javed. The stories had been confirmed by Salim Khan in an interview.

The celebrated screenwriter was quoted by Dainik Bhaskar saying, “This news is absolutely true. Zoya (Akhtar) shared this idea (with me) around a month and a half back and she has started her research too. She will also be speaking to all those people, who have worked with us in the past. It’s going to be a long process. It’s not a biopic but something like a documentary.”

Bollywood Hungama has an unique scoop on this Salim-Javed story. “Netflix is in the race to get the exclusive streaming rights of this project. They are in advanced conversation with Zoya and her team and the deal is expected to be locked soon,” a supply advised Bollywood Hungama.

That’s not all; Netflix is a platform that’s planning to make a docu-drama on a number of Indian personalities. “It’s an IP that the streaming giant is trying to create. Recently, Sheila Anand documentary by Shakun Batra released on their platform. Next in the same IP in all probability will be Salim-Javed story, and announcement will be made once the paperwork is done,” the supply additional advised us and added that they’re in talks with many different achievers in totally different streams.

The Salim-Javed story has already grow to be one of many scorching matters of debate in the Hindi movie commerce and everybody is keen to know the making of this iconic duo and their means of cracking the script and dialogues of a few of Indian cinema’s largest blockbusters. The commerce can also be anticipating an perception into what went flawed with the duo in the Eighties ensuing in fallout. It’s wait and watch to see the aspects that Zoya explores with this story.

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