Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, who’ve co-written The Archies, are busy selling the movie that marks the Bollywood debut of star youngsters Suhana Khan, Khushi Kapoor and Agastya Nanda. In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, Zoya and Reema weighed in on the place they stand compared to legendary screenwriters Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, who have been often called Salim-Javed. Zoya stated she couldn’t be in comparison with her father, lyricist-writer Javed. Also learn: Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti deny Made in Heaven’s France wedding ceremony episode was based mostly on Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif
Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti on Salim-Javed
When requested in the event that they have been the ‘new-age Salim-Javed’, Zoya Akhtar stated, “Nahi (no). I don’t think we are in any way close to what they did. They were very special. Unke pehle koi nahi aya, unke baad koi nahi ayega (There was no one before them and there will be no one after them). I don’t think we are any way close.”
Reema Kagti chimed in, saying, “I agree with Zoya. The impact they (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar) had and they still have. They are still out there, they have permeated popular culture, popular imagination, they have given exponentially more hits than anybody else.” To this, Zoya added they gave hits ‘in a pan-Indian approach’.
Javed on why he stopped working with Salim
Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan, who’s the daddy of actor Salman Khan, labored as screenwriters in well-known Hindi movies reminiscent of Sholay, Don, Deewaar and Zanjeer, amongst many others. In an interview with BBC News Hindi earlier in 2023, Javed had opened up about not working with Salim after they ‘became successful’. Javed had stated that after they turned profitable, their particular person lives turned greater than their bond.
“In our struggling days, we were one team. We did not have any other friends, we would work together from morning till evening. We would even have meals together. Out of 24 hours, we would spend 15-16 hours with each other. But as we became successful, new people came into our lives and our friend circle got separated. The mental rapport we had was broken. We could no longer work as a team,” Javed Akhtar had stated.
Meanwhile, filmmakers Zoya and Reema have labored collectively as co-writers in a variety of movies in addition to the Prime Video collection Made in Heaven, which they co-wrote with Alankrita Shrivastava. The Archies, their newest movie collectively, has been directed by Zoya and co-written by Zoya, Reema and Ayesha DeVitre.
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Source web site: www.hindustantimes.com
