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Javed Akhtar
Indian
Activist
Born:
Jan 17
,
1945
Believe
Certain
People
Words
You
Your
Everything is now moving fast so communication has to be fast as well. But the tragedy is that we have attained this speed at the cost of depth of words.
Javed Akhtar
Communication
Words
Speed
Everything
Cost
Attained
Well
Tragedy
Moving
Depth
Now
Fast
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.
Javed Akhtar
Progressive
India
Emerged
Writers
Leading
Like
Who
Star
Working with anyone is easy as long as you realise that your collaborator has the understanding and experience even if he is younger to you.
Javed Akhtar
You
Experience
Long
Understanding
Collaborator
Easy
He
Anyone
Realise
Younger
Working
Your
Even
I am a secular rationalist Nationalist proud Indian who is inconvenient to both Hindu and Muslim communalists.
Javed Akhtar
I Am
Secular
Muslim
Indian
Both
Hindu
Proud
Am
Nationalist
Who
Inconvenient
For an average noun or an average verb, an average mind can quickly create reference. Where did they hear it? See it? What does it remind them of? What is its connection? When was it last used in conversation? What has been my experience with it? A host of memories appear when you hear a word you remember.
Javed Akhtar
You
Memories
Conversation
Experience
Remember
Word
Mind
Has-Been
See
Host
Remind
Verb
Does
Hear
Been
Reference
Quickly
Did
Where
Them
Average
Create
Used
Noun
Connection
Appear
Last
Generally, we tend to believe that royalty is only for mainstream Hindi commercial cinema music and maybe some popular ghazal singer or pop singer but we never think that classical music is played at so many places.
Javed Akhtar
Music
Cinema
Believe
Think
Some
Classical
Classical Music
Only
Tend
Generally
Never
Mainstream
Singer
Hindi
Commercial
Maybe
Places
Pop
Pop Singer
Many
Popular
Played
Royalty
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
Man
People
Doors
Rarely
Morality
Push
Envelope
Mainstream
Opens
Majority
Accepted
Does
Questions
Very
Norms
Gets
Common
So-Called
Common Man
Certain
Means
Notions
Film
Away
Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it's a 'cat.' But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it's a cat. So a cat it is.
Javed Akhtar
You
Strange
Animal
Words
Nothing
Once
Saw
Cat
Sound
Decided
Strange Thing
Thing
I genuinely believe that people who are in their 20s and 30s understand certain things that I don't. I have a lot to offer to them and vice-versa.
Javed Akhtar
People
Believe
Understand
Genuinely
Lot
Offer
Them
Certain
Certain Things
Who
Things