Javed Akhtar back to writing for Bollywood 13th May 2005
12.10 IST
By Agencies
After giving superhit numbers for movies like Swades , Veer Zaara and Main Hoon Na , ace lyricist Javed Akhtar is back to his old love – writing scripts and says he has just finished one for Bollywood.
"The gap has been a long one though I wrote Lakshya in between. But I have just finished writing a new script. However, I still have to show it to any director," says Akhtar, who had penned blockbusters Sholay , Zanjeer and Deewar .
However, he rues that there is dearth of good content in Hindi movies these days. "Text is lacking behind. Words have become secondary. But to deliver good world class cinema, it is important to understand the need of subject and text."
“Many new film-makers are experimenting and have come out with 'different' films... The viewers will be able to see good cinema again in next 10 years time”, says Akhtar.
Akhtar, who scored a new record by being nominated five times in the best lyricist category this year at Filmfare Awards, says "there is also lack of good Urdu poets writing for Hindi movies... Even Hindi poets are not writing much." "I am not a pessimist, but lot of changes came in the 80's and up to mid 90s which were not very good for the Hindi cinema. But thankfully we are past 'Choli ke Peeche' and 'Sarkaile Khatiya'," he says.
"A change is slowly coming, but still not is left to be desired," says Akhtar.
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Javed Akhtar back to writing for Bollywood
