Bollywood Home » Bollywood Screenwriters » Salim-Javed Salim-Javed is one of the most famous screenwriter duos in Bollywood. The stories written by Salim-Javed are some of the biggest blockbusters of the Indian film industry. Deewar, Sholay, Seeta Aur Geeta, Shakti, Kala Pathhar, Haathi Mere Saathi and Zanjeer are some of the films for which Salim-Javed did screenplay. Together, they set a new of trend of screenplay writing that reflected the realistic outlook of the seventies and eighties and earned accolades for their collective endeavor.

Salim-Javed: Early Life of Salim-Javed
Salim Khan started his film career as an actor. He acted in films like Sarhadi Lootera. The film did badly in the box office, but it brought him in contact with Javed Akhtar. Javed Akhtar had started his career in Bollywood as a script writer. He wrote screenplay for a few films which were not so commercially successful. It was after Sarhadi Lootera that Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar decided to team up to pen down dialogues for Bollywood films.

Salim-Javed: Film Career of Salim-Javed


Salim-Javed was the most successful screenwriter duo of Bollywood. Together, they brought in the concept of 'angry young man 'who was disowned and wanted to change the society or nation not with his romanticism, but with his anger in the film Zanjeer. The movie became a hit among the mass, who took it as a welcome break from sappy romances and belly laughs. Amitabh Bachchan who was himself a struggler in those days shot to fame with Salim-Javed's Zanjeer and best suited the role of an angry young man.

Salim-Javed is also credited to have come up with some of the most innovative plots in Hindi films. Films like Sholay, Don and Mr. India have created history in the box office.

Salim-Javed: Films of Salim-Javed
Salim-Javed duo wrote dialogues for a number of films. Some of the well known films in which they worked together are:

• Haathi Mere Saathi (1971)
• Seeta Aur Geeta (1972)
• Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973)
• Zanjeer (1973)
• Majboor (1974)
• Deewaar (1975)
• Sholay (1975)
• Chacha Bhatija (1977)
• Immaan Dharam (1977)
• Don (1978)
• Trishul (1978)
• Kaala Patthar (1979)
• Dostana (1980)
• Shaan (1980)
• Shakti (1982)
• Mr India (1987)

Salim-Javed: Awards Won by Salim-Javed
Salim-Javed was the highest paid screenplay writers of their time. They won many awards for their redoubtable screenplay such as:

• In the year 1983 Salim-Javed won Best Screenplay for the film Shakti
• In the year 1976 Salim-Javed won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue Deewar
• In the year 1976 Salim-Javed won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay Deewar
• In the year 1976 Salim-Javed won the Filmfare Award for Best Story Deewar
• In the year 1974 Salim-Javed won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay Zanjeer
• In the year 1974 Salim-Javed won the Filmfare Award for Best Story Zanjeer

Later in life, Salim Khan made a name for himself for well known films like Betaab released in the year 1983 and Naam (1986), while Javed Akhtar is a well known lyricist of the day.

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