Zoya Akhtar, Namrata Rao on Angry Young Men: 'When Salim-Javed split, there was distance in family'

Zoya Akhtar Interview: Director Namrata Rao and filmmaker Zoya Akhtar talk about what went behind mounting the Prime Video docu series Angry Young Men, on the iconic writing duo Salim-Javed.

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[shahkarim]

800 hours look like a lot of footage. They should release them in the future

[brajroy]

The documentary is not an emotional piece but it made me tear up.

A legacy and what a life and how they changed the cinema in the 70's. They were and still are the right kind of brats.


It just touched me.

[prabhuyog]

thts quiet interesting to know that JA-SK thought that their inputs of character needed a change if they do it again in todays era.
best wishes always for namrata and eagerly waiting for all ZA films

[krupadave]

Instead of repeated appearance of Hritik and Karina, there should hv bn more people including Ram Gopal Varma, Gulzar, Anurag Kashyap, Rajnikant, Kamal Hasan, Vishal Bhardwaj, Shekhar Kapur, Subhash Ghai, Aaditya Chopra and some serious film critics & historians. Why no bytes from Alvira and Salma Khan? More from Dharmendra and Shatrughan Sinha. And most importantly, their biggest critic Naseeruddin Shah should have been there. May be in S2, I guess.

[promasengupta]

The interviewer did not seem very confident in doing his job

[nawangdhondup]

Does this guy sound like Rajeev Masand or is he trying to sound like him??

[shafac]

Javed Akhtar looks like Glen quagmire from the family guy in the thumbnail

[vsudhaak]

Is the host, rajeev masand 's son?

[ruzbe]

My Review of ANGRY YOUNG MEN
Mr Salim Khan and Mr Javed Aktar both are geniuses in their field. Goes without saying Deewar was their best work.

However, if you ask this question to someone who is now in his 50’s will say I watched this movie as a kid keeping in mind Amitabh Bachchan. (Hrithik Roshan was completely faking it). Until I grew up I didn’t know what function does a director does OR a screenplay writer does. For me I’m watching a movie. There was no difference for me Don and Mr Natwarlal both were good. So is Muqadar Ka Sikandar, Naseeb, Satte, Pe Satta or Lawaris. I still don’t know who wrote those movies as at that time a kids used to get engaged with the main hero which was Bachchan.

Overall the documentary was below my expectations. On the following counts.
a.) I have seen various interviews of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar interviews on YouTube. They are far more engaging, entertaining and hilarious. You must watch Salim Khan on Kapil Sharma's show. It’s a treat.
b.) 2yrs back YRF did the same for Yash Chopra on Netflix. It’s only a tribute by the kids to keep their parents happy in their old age. It is boring after a certain point everyone he saying the same glorified version in different ways. Mere Baap acha hai and all that.
c.) There are so many people giving their views like SRK came for a bite etc. Salman Khan hardly spoke anything and he started the show I’m scared of giving this interview. There was hardly any footage of Amitabh, poor Dharmendra hardly spoke wonder why he was even given a 2 bit.

There were far more inside stories: Why did Zanjeer was refused by so many of them? The story bought the script from Salim Javed and sold it to Dharmendra who went to Prakash Mehra for him to direct. Soon after Dharmendra promised his sister that he would never work with Prakash Mehra. Hence the search started.

There are so many things which I wanted to know like
Which movies they did post the split?
NAAM, KABZA - Salim Khan and various others didn’t do well
BETAAB, ARJUN, DACAIT, MERI JUNG - Javed Akhtar
Did they miss each other while writing it?
Their last combo hit was MR INDIA.
Some public opinions of that time, were the black marketers who became millionaires. The stories of the craftsman or the theatre owners etc would have created much-needed juice.

I feel it was created just to keep the 2 old men happy!
So all this 4-star etc is simply publicity stunt.

[techcrazie]

Zoya kabhi Hindi mai baat nai karti.l.javed saaheb jaise umda writer ki beti nai lagti…yeh apne aapko desi dhang se kabhi pesh nai karti…Farhan shayad fir bhi hindi bole leta hai kabhi kabhi