Javed Akhtar: Author-Biography

• Indian songwriters (39)

  • Anand Bakshi
  • Kaifi Azmi
  • Prasoon joshi
  • Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Shakeel Badayuni
  • Shakeel Badayuni
  • Ahmed Wasi
  • Akksar Allahabadi
  • Arunagirinathar
  • Bharat Vyas
  • Bhima Bhoi
  • Biddu
  • Bishnuprasad Rabha
  • Chandrabose (Lyricist)
  • Chandrabose (composer)
  • Gopaldas Neeraj
  • Gulzar
  • Hamsalekha
  • Hari Om Sharan
  • Hasrat Jaipuri
  • Indeevar
  • Indian hymnwriters
  • Indian lyricists
  • Indian singer-songwriters
  • Kamal Singh
  • Kavi Pradeep
  • Majrooh Sultanpuri
  • Mehboob
  • Nazim Panipati
  • P. K. Gopi
  • R. N. Jayagopal
  • Raghav
  • Rajendra Krishan
  • Ram Sampath
  • Sarim Momin
  • Shailendra
  • Shamsher Singh Sandhu
  • Sirasri
  • V. Manohar
  • Yusuf Ali Kechery
  • more...

• Indian lyricists (53)

  • "nida fazli"
  • Amit Trivedi
  • Jan Nisar Akhtar
  • Aarudhra
  • Aathreya
  • Aathreya
  • Aghajani Kashmeri
  • Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar'
  • Ali Sardar Jafri
  • Anatha Sreeram
  • Anjaan
  • Ashok Mishra
  • Bharat Vyas
  • C. Narayanareddy
  • Chandrabose (Lyricist)
  • Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak
  • Gireesh Puthenchery
  • Gopaldas Neeraj
  • Gulzar
  • Harbans Jandu
  • Hari Om Sharan
  • Kaifi Azmi
  • Kamaal Rashid Khan
  • Kannadasan
  • Kavi Pradeep
  • Majrooh Sultanpuri
  • Mauj Jamshedpuri
  • Mullanchery M. Velaian
  • Na. Muthukumar
  • Nazim Panipati
  • Nilkanth Tiwari
  • P. Vijay
  • Pingali Nagendrarao
  • Piyush Mishra
  • Prasoon joshi
  • Qamar Jalalabadi
  • Raja Mehdi Ali Khan
  • Rajanikanta Sen
  • S. H. Bihari
  • Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Sameer (lyricist)
  • Sarim Momin
  • Shiv Kumar Batalvi
  • Sirivennala Seetha Rama Sastry
  • Sirivennela Sitaramasastri
  • Snehan
  • Srirangam Srinivasarao
  • Suddala Ashok Teja
  • Swanand Kirkire
  • Thamarai
  • Vaali (poet)
  • Vairamuthu
  • Veturi Sundararama Murthy
  • Vishal Bhardwaj
  • more...

• People from Gwalior

  • Jan Nisar Akhtar
  • "nida fazli"

• Filmfare Awards winners (19)

  • Farhan Akhtar
  • Shankar Ehsaan Loy
  • Shabana Azmi
  • Anu Malik
  • Abhishek Kapoor
  • Abhishek Kapoor
  • Ashutosh Gowariker
  • Alka Yagnik
  • Rajesh Roshan
  • Shahana Goswami
  • J.P. Dutta
  • Konkona Sen Sharma
  • Juhi Chawla
  • A R Rahman
  • Sukhwinder Singh
  • Rishi Kapoor
  • Kaifi Azmi
  • Shakeel Badayuni
  • Anand Bakshi
  • Prasoon joshi
  • more...

• Idol series judges

  • Alisha Chinai
  • Udit Narayan
  • Sonu Nigam
  • Anu Malik

• Aligarh Muslim University alumni

  • Kaifi Azmi
  • Jan Nisar Akhtar
  • Shakeel Badayuni

• Urdu poets

  • Majaz
  • Kaifi Azmi
  • Jan Nisar Akhtar
  • "nida fazli"
  • Shakeel Badayuni

• People from Lucknow

  • Begum Akhtar
  • Kaifi Azmi
  • Majaz

• Indian poets

  • Kaifi Azmi
  • Jan Nisar Akhtar
  • Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Majaz
  • Shakeel Badayuni
  • Anand Bakshi

• Recipients of the Padma Shri

  • Shabana Azmi
  • Kaifi Azmi
  • Udit Narayan
  • Begum Akhtar
  • Sahir Ludhianvi
  • A R Rahman

• Indian screenwriters

  • Honey Irani
  • Salim Khan
  • Salim-Javed
  • Farhan Akhtar
  • Abhishek Kapoor
  • Prasoon joshi

• Hindi film actors (12)

  • Isha Sharvani
  • Prachi Desai
  • Sanjay Kapoor
  • Surendra Pal
  • Farhan Akhtar
  • Farhan Akhtar
  • Salim Khan
  • Shabana Azmi
  • Begum Akhtar
  • Konkona Sen Sharma
  • Juhi Chawla
  • Sonu Nigam
  • Rishi Kapoor
  • more...

• Indian actors (16)

  • Suhasini Mulay
  • Boman Irani
  • Rose Dawn
  • Satish Shah
  • Vasundhara Das
  • Vasundhara Das
  • Honey Irani
  • Salim Khan
  • Shabana Azmi
  • Prachi Desai
  • Sanjay Kapoor
  • Shahana Goswami
  • Konkona Sen Sharma
  • Juhi Chawla
  • Sonu Nigam
  • Rishi Kapoor
  • Surendra Pal
  • more...

• Indian film actors (16)

  • Luke Kenny
  • Rajesh Vivek
  • Ila Arun
  • Salim Khan
  • Shabana Azmi
  • Shabana Azmi
  • Ashutosh Gowariker
  • Isha Sharvani
  • Prachi Desai
  • Boman Irani
  • Sanjay Kapoor
  • Konkona Sen Sharma
  • Juhi Chawla
  • Sonu Nigam
  • Satish Shah
  • Rishi Kapoor
  • Surendra Pal
  • more...

• Indian film score composers (14)

  • Vishal Dadlani
  • Shankar Mahadevan
  • Shiv-Hari
  • Jatin Lalit
  • Ehsaan Noorani
  • Ehsaan Noorani
  • Loy Mendonsa
  • Adnan Sami
  • Shankar Ehsaan Loy
  • Anu Malik
  • Javed Ali
  • Amit Trivedi
  • Rajesh Roshan
  • A R Rahman
  • Sonu Nigam
  • more...

• Bollywood playback singers (90)

  • Mahalaxmi Iyer
  • Raman Mahadevan
  • Richa Sharma (singer)
  • Sunidhi Chauhan
  • A R Rahman
  • A R Rahman
  • Aditya Narayan
  • Adnan Sami
  • Alka Yagnik
  • Amirbai Karnataki
  • Amit Kumar
  • Amit Trivedi
  • Anu Malik
  • Anuradha Paudwal
  • Anuradha Sriram
  • Anwar (singer)
  • Asha Bhosle
  • Baba Sehgal
  • Babul Supriyo
  • Banarli Kalita
  • Benny Dayal
  • Bhupen Hazarika
  • Bhupinder Singh (musician)
  • Gayatri Iyer
  • Geeta Dutt
  • Hard Kaur
  • Harshit Saxena
  • Hema Sardesai
  • Hemlata
  • Himesh Reshammiya
  • Javed Ali
  • K. J. Yesudas
  • K. S. Chithra
  • Kavi Pradeep
  • Kavita Subramaniam
  • Kishore Kumar
  • Krishna Beura
  • Krishnakumar Kunnath
  • Kunal Ganjawala
  • Lata Mangeshkar
  • Louis Banks
  • Lucky Ali
  • Malgudi Subha
  • Manna Dey
  • Mohammed Aziz
  • Mohammed Rafi
  • Mukesh
  • Naresh Iyer
  • Navin Kundra
  • Nazia and Zoheb
  • Neha Bhasin
  • Neil Nitin Mukesh
  • Nitin Mukesh
  • Preeti Sagar
  • Rahul Vaidya
  • Raja Hasan
  • Rajkumari Dubey
  • Reena Bhardwaj
  • Rekha Bhardwaj
  • Roop Kumar Rathod
  • S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
  • Sadhana Sargam
  • Sapna Mukherjee
  • Shaan (singer)
  • Shabbir Kumar
  • Shailender Singh
  • Shamshad Begum
  • Sharda
  • Shibani Kashyap
  • Shilpa Rao
  • Shreya Ghoshal
  • Shriram Iyer
  • Shrradha Pandit
  • Shweta Pandit
  • Sonu Nigam
  • Sophie Choudry
  • Sudesh Bhonsle
  • Sukhwinder Singh
  • Sulakshana Pandit
  • Suneeta Rao
  • Suresh Wadkar
  • Suzanne D'Mello
  • Taz (singer)
  • Tulsi Kumar
  • Udit Narayan
  • Usha Mangeshkar
  • Usha Uthup
  • Vani Jairam
  • Vibha Sharma
  • Vijay Prakash
  • Vijay Yesudas
  • more...

• Indian male singers (97)

  • Kailash kher
  • A R Rahman
  • A. M. Rajah
  • Abhijeet Bhattacharya
  • Abhijeet Sawant
  • Abhijeet Sawant
  • Adnan Sami
  • Amey Date
  • Amit Kumar
  • Amit Sana
  • Amit Tandon
  • Amitabh Bachchan
  • Anu Malik
  • Anuj Gurwara
  • Anup Ghoshal
  • Baba Sehgal
  • Babul Supriyo
  • Bally Sagoo
  • Barry Hay
  • Bhupen Hazarika
  • Bhupinder Singh (musician)
  • Bonnie Chakraborty
  • C. Aswath
  • C. S. Jayaraman
  • D. Imman
  • Daler Mehndi
  • G. V. Atri
  • G. Venugopal
  • Gajendra Rana
  • Ganesh Hegde
  • Ghantasala (singer)
  • Ghulam Abbas Khan
  • Harshit Saxena
  • Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
  • Ishmeet Singh Sodhi
  • Jasbir Jassi
  • Jassi Sidhu
  • Javed Ali
  • Jayachandran
  • Juggy D
  • K. C. Dey
  • K. J. Yesudas
  • Kaka Bhaniawala
  • Kamal Heer
  • Karthik (singer)
  • Kishore Kumar
  • Kozhikode Abdul Kader
  • Krishnakumar Kunnath
  • Kuldeep Manak
  • Kumar Sanu
  • Kundan Lal Saigal
  • Louis Banks
  • Lucky Ali
  • M. G. Sreekumar
  • MK Balaji
  • Madhu Balakrishnan
  • Mahendra Kapoor
  • Manna Dey
  • Master Madan
  • Mohammed Rafi
  • Nagaraja Rao Havaldar
  • Navin Kundra
  • Nikhil Mathew
  • P. Unni Krishnan
  • Pammi Bai
  • Pankaj Mullick
  • Philip V. Francis
  • Pradip Somasundaran
  • Premji Amaren
  • Raghav
  • Rahul Vaidya
  • Raman Mahadevan
  • Roop Kumar Rathod
  • S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
  • Saandip
  • Sanam Puri
  • Sandeep Acharya
  • Santidev Ghosh
  • Sarbjit Singh Chadha
  • Shaan (singer)
  • Shailender Singh
  • Shankar Mahadevan
  • Shimoga Subbanna
  • Sonu Nigam
  • Sreevalsan
  • Srikanto Acharya
  • Srinivas (singer)
  • Sudesh Bhonsle
  • Sudhir Phadke
  • Sukhwinder Singh
  • Suresh Wadkar
  • Taz (singer)
  • Toshi Sabri
  • Unni Menon
  • Vandemataram Srinivas
  • Vidhu Prathap
  • Vijay Yesudas
  • Yuvan Shankar Raja
  • more...

• Indian pop singers (32)

  • Neeraj Shridhar
  • Abhijeet Sawant
  • Adnan Sami
  • Amit Tandon
  • Amitabh Bachchan
  • Amitabh Bachchan
  • Chris Rael
  • Colonial Cousins
  • DJ Aqeel
  • Falguni Pathak
  • Harshit Saxena
  • Javed Ali
  • Kulwinder Dhillon
  • Labh Janjua
  • Lucky Ali
  • Manmohan Waris
  • Mohit Chauhan
  • Navin Kundra
  • Penaz Masani
  • Prajakta Shukre
  • Raghav
  • Rahul Vaidya
  • Remo Fernandes
  • Sabar Koti
  • Samsaya
  • Shweta Shetty
  • Smita
  • Sonu Kakkar
  • Sonu Nigam
  • Sophie Choudry
  • Suhit Gosain
  • Sukhbir (musician)
  • Vikas Bhalla
  • more...

• Indian Idol

  • Indian Idol 4
  • Indian idol 3
  • Indian Idol 2 - Woh Pehli Baar
  • Indian Idol 3
  • Indian idol 2

• Urdu poets from India (11)

  • Ali Haider Tabatabai
  • Ali Sardar Jafri
  • Bekhud Badayuni
  • Firaq Gorakhpuri
  • Jan Nisar Akhtar
  • Jan Nisar Akhtar
  • Majaz
  • Majrooh Sultanpuri
  • Mauj Jamshedpuri
  • Rafiuddin Raz
  • Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Sardar Anjum
  • more...

• Hindi-language films (12)

  • Luck by Chance
  • Main Agar Kahoon
  • Jashn
  • Dil Chahta Hai
  • Chandra Barot
  • Chandra Barot
  • Umrao Jaan (2006)
  • Don - The Chase Begins Again
  • Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
  • Krazzy 4
  • Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna
  • Love Story 2050
  • Jodhaa Akbar
  • more...

• Indian film singers (176)

  • A R Rahman
  • A. P. Komala
  • A. R. Reihana
  • Aakanksha Jachak
  • Abhijeet Bhattacharya
  • Abhijeet Bhattacharya
  • Adnan Sami
  • Akshaya Mohanty
  • Alka Yagnik
  • Amirbai Karnataki
  • Amit Kumar
  • Anand Raj Anand
  • Anil Biswas (composer)
  • Anuj Gurwara
  • Anup Ghoshal
  • Anuradha Sriram
  • Anwar (singer)
  • Arash (entertainer)
  • Asha Bhosle
  • Asha G Menon
  • Assamese playback singers
  • Baba Sehgal
  • Begum Akhtar
  • Benny Dayal
  • Bhavatharini
  • Bhupinder Singh (musician)
  • Blaaze
  • Bollywood playback singers
  • Chinmayi
  • Clinton Cerejo
  • DJ Aqeel
  • Deepa Miriam
  • Dharshana
  • Ehsaan Noorani
  • Farhan Akhtar
  • G. Venugopal
  • Ganguly family
  • Gayatri Asokan
  • Geeta Dutt
  • Hamsika Iyer
  • Hariharan (singer)
  • Harini
  • Harshit Saxena
  • Hema Sardesai
  • Hemachandra (singer)
  • Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
  • Hemlata
  • Hridayanath Mangeshkar
  • Ila Arun
  • Ilaiyaraaja
  • Jassie Gift
  • Javed Ali
  • Jayachandran
  • Jency Anthony
  • Jikki
  • Jyotsna Radhakrishnan
  • K. C. Dey
  • K. J. Yesudas
  • K. S. Chithra
  • Kailash kher
  • Kanan Devi
  • Kanika Bandyopadhyay
  • Kannada playback singers
  • Karthik (singer)
  • Kavita Subramaniam
  • Kishore Kumar
  • Kollywood playback singers
  • Kozhikode Abdul Kader
  • Krishna Beura
  • Krishnakumar Kunnath
  • Kumar Sanu
  • Kunal Ganjawala
  • Kundan Lal Saigal
  • L. R. Eswari
  • Labh Janjua
  • Lata Mangeshkar
  • List of Indian playback singers
  • Louis Banks
  • Loy Mendonsa
  • Lucky Ali
  • M. G. Sreekumar
  • MK Balaji
  • Madhu Balakrishnan
  • Madhushree
  • Mahalaxmi Iyer
  • Mahendra Kapoor
  • Malayalam playback singers
  • Manhar Udhas
  • Manjari Babu
  • Manna Dey
  • Mano (singer)
  • Marathi film singers
  • Meena Kapoor
  • Mickey J Meyer
  • Mohammed Rafi
  • Mubarak Begum
  • Mukesh
  • Naresh Iyer
  • Nitin Mukesh
  • P. B. Sreenivas
  • P. Leela
  • P. Madhuri
  • P. Susheela
  • P. Unni Krishnan
  • Pankaj Mullick
  • Parul Ghosh
  • Pradip Somasundaran
  • R.D. Burman
  • Rags (singer)
  • Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
  • Rahul Vaidya
  • Rajkumari Dubey
  • Ram Sampath
  • Raman Mahadevan
  • Rashid Ali (singer)
  • Ravisankar
  • Reena Bhardwaj
  • Rekha Bhardwaj
  • Remo Fernandes
  • Roop Kumar Rathod
  • Roshan Ara Begum
  • S. Janaki
  • S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
  • S. P. Sailaja
  • Saandip
  • Sachin Dev Burman
  • Sadhana Sargam
  • Saindhavi
  • Salim-Sulaiman
  • Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
  • Sanjeev Abhyankar
  • Sapan Chakraborty
  • Shaan (singer)
  • Shabbir Kumar
  • Shamshad Begum
  • Shankar Ehsaan Loy
  • Shankar Mahadevan
  • Shibani Kashyap
  • Shilpa Rao
  • Shimoga Subbanna
  • Shobha Gurtu
  • Shreya Ghoshal
  • Shruti Pathak
  • Shubha Mudgal
  • Shweta Mohan
  • Smita
  • Sonu Nigam
  • Srinivas (singer)
  • Suchitra Mitra
  • Sudesh Bhonsle
  • Sudhir Phadke
  • Sujatha Mohan
  • Sukhwinder Singh
  • Sulakshana Pandit
  • Sumit Kumar
  • Suneeta Rao
  • Sunidhi Chauhan
  • Suraiya
  • Suresh Peters
  • Suresh Wadkar
  • Swanand Kirkire
  • Talat Mahmood
  • Tamil playback singers
  • Tanvi Shah
  • Telugu playback singers
  • Tuntun
  • Udit Narayan
  • Unni Menon
  • Vandemataram Srinivas
  • Vani Jairam
  • Vasundhara Das
  • Vibha Sharma
  • Vidhu Prathap
  • Vijay Prakash
  • Vijay Yesudas
  • Yuvan Shankar Raja
  • Zubeen Garg
  • more...

• People from Faridabad

  • Ajay Ratra
  • Avtar Singh Bhadana
  • Maharani Kishori
  • Raja Nahar Singh
  • Richa Sharma (singer)
  • Sonu Nigam

• Lyrics (14)

  • 1942: A Love Story
  • Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal
  • Earth (1998 film)
  • Gardish
  • Kal Ho Naa Ho
  • Kal Ho Naa Ho
  • Lakshya (film)
  • Namastey London
  • Swades
  • Veer-Zaara
  • What's Your Raashee?
  • Yes Boss
  • Zubeidaa
  • Dil Chahta Hai
  • Jodhaa Akbar
  • more...

• Script

  • Filmfare Best Lyricist Award
  • Trishul (film)
  • Zanjeer
  • Don (1978 film)

• See also (20)

  • Writers
  • Ritesh Sidhwani
  • Zoya Akhtar
  • Caralisa
  • Javed Ali
  • Javed Ali
  • Excel Entertainment Group
  • Nino Katamadze
  • Lakshmi Shankar
  • Amit Paul
  • Shaan (singer)
  • Purab Kohli
  • Aly Khan
  • Nextmen
  • Harry Baweja
  • Nicolaus Harnoncourt
  • Jodhaa Akbar
  • Devanagari
  • Aligarh Muslim University
  • Colvin Taluqdars' College
  • List of Urdu language poets
  • more...

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