By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I could write a line in metre. But I never dared to do it till I was 33 years old. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that’s so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
If you are educated in English-medium schools, you get a better view of the world, develop more liberal values, have more gender sensitivity and become more forward looking. But you pay a price because you don’t know your own language. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
I know Priyanka Chopra personally. She is a cultured, decent and educated person and the fact remains that she is an Indian. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
