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  Javed Akhtar pens special lines for 'Wagle Ki Duniya' on its first anniversary

  Celebrities | February 08, 2022 18:42 IST

  'Wagle Ki Duniya' reflects the common man's dilemmas, social issues, family values, and aspirations. And this is one of the reasons it resonates with the audience.

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  Farhan Akhtar to tie the knot with Shibani Dandekar on Feb 21, confirms Javed Akhtar

  Celebrities | February 03, 2022 22:25 IST

  Farhan Akhtar and Shibani Dandekar will be registering their marriage on February 21, 2022, in Mumbai. For the unversed, Farhan was earlier married to Adhuna in the year 2000. They parted ways in 2016.

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  Shabana Azmi tests positive for COVID-19, Boney Kapoor says 'stay away from Javed Akhtar'

  Celebrities | February 01, 2022 11:14 IST

  Shabana Azmi has tested COVID positive. Soon after she shared the news on social media, fans and followers wished her a speedy recovery and prayed for her well being.

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  Shabana Azmi's 'family-sized' birthday wishes for Javed Akhtar ft Zoya, Farhan & Shibani Dandekar

  Celebrities | January 17, 2022 18:51 IST

  Farhan and Zoya are Javed Akhtar's and his first wife Honey Irani's children. Honey and Javed Akhtar got separated in 1978, and in 1984 Javed Akhtar tied the knot with actor Shabana Azmi. Veteran lyricist celebrated his 77th birthday today (Janury 17).

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  Happy birthday Javed Akhtar: Farhan Akhtar shares throwback pic, Shibani Dandekar sends love

  Celebrities | January 17, 2022 11:28 IST

  Farhan Kahtar shared a throwback picture on the occasion of his father, lyricist Javed Akhtar's birthday. "Thoughtful, restless, curious and always searching for what’s beyond the obvious, this is how I’ve always known you to be," Farhan wrote accompanying a candid photo of Javed Saab.  

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  Javed Akhtar's petition seeking non-bailable warrant against Kangana Ranaut rejected by court

  Celebrities | January 04, 2022 16:43 IST

  Javed Akhtar had moved a plea before a court seeking the issuance of a non-bailable warrant against Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut in a criminal defamation case filed by him against her. The application, moved by Akhtar's lawyer Jay Bharadwaj, listed the number of exemptions Ranaut has sought. It also mentioned she was making "false and incorrect statements" before the court.

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  Javed Akhtar seeks dismissal of defamation suit against him over RSS-Taliban remarks

  January 04, 2022 6:16 IST

  Javed Akhtar submitted the application through his advocate Jay Bhardwaj urging the court to reject the suit filed by RSS activist Vivek Champanerkar on the ground that the plaintiff (Champanerkar) does not have locus standi and cause of action to file the plea.

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  Mumbai court rejects Kangana's plea to transfer extortion case against Javed Akhtar from magistrate

  December 18, 2021 21:36 IST

  Ranaut had filed a counter complaint against Akhtar, who is pursuing a criminal defamation case against her. In her complaint before the magistrate court, Ranaut had accused Akhtar of "extortion and criminal intimidation".

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  Kangana challenges order rejecting her plea for transfer of defamation case filed by Javed Akhtar

  Celebrities | December 17, 2021 21:00 IST

  Kangana Ranaut's review application, filed before the Borivali sessions court through advocate Rizwan Siddiquee, said the CMM failed to appreciate that the magistrate had "misused" his powers to cause intentional injury to the applicant (her case).  

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  Defamation case: Javed Akhtar seeks non bailable warrant against Kangana Ranaut

  December 13, 2021 16:08 IST

  Akhtar (76) had filed the complaint in the Andheri court in November, 2020 claiming Ranaut had made defamatory statements against him in a television interview. He claimed the actor had dragged in his name while referring to a "coterie" existing in Bollywood, following the alleged suicide by actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June last year.

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  Javed Akhtar reacts to Kangana Ranaut's 'bheek' remark, shares cryptic tweet

  Celebrities | November 18, 2021 18:16 IST

  In a recent TV show, Kangana Ranaut said that what India achieved in 1947 was "bheek" while the "real freedom" was achieved in 2014, referring to the BJP's win in the Lok Sabha elections. Now, Javed Akhtar has reacted to her statements.

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  Javed Akhtar on FabIndia's 'Jashn-e-Riwaaz' controversy: It's crazy how people have problem with it

  Celebrities | October 28, 2021 20:11 IST

  In a tweet, Akhtar wondered what the point of conflict was. "I failed to understand why some people have any problem with FabIndia's Jashn-e-Riwaj. Which in English means nothing but 'a celebration of tradition,'" he wrote. 

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  Judge acted judiciously, without bias: says court while rejecting Kangana's plea in defamation case

  October 23, 2021 17:01 IST

  The additional chief metropolitan magistrate had rejected Kangana Ranaut's petition on October 21, but its detailed order was made available on Saturday. Kangana had filed the transfer petition last month, saying that she had "lost faith" in the Andheri metropolitan magistrate's court as it indirectly “threatened” her of issuing a warrant if she failed to appear before it in a bailable offence.

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  Film industry has to pay a price for being high profile: Javed Akhtar on targeting of Bollywood

  Celebrities | October 19, 2021 22:49 IST

  Javed Akhtar said "This is the price the film industry has to pay for being high profile. When you're high profile, people have fun pulling you down, throwing muck at you. If you're a nobody, then who has the time to throw stones at you?"

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  FIR against lyricist Javed Akhtar over RSS remark

  October 04, 2021 15:26 IST

  Mumbai police registered an FIR against lyricist Javed Akhtar over his alleged remark against the RSS. The FIR has been registered under IPC Section 500 (punishment for defamation).

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  Javed Akhtar defamation case: Kangana Ranaut appears before court, says has lost faith in it

  September 20, 2021 18:50 IST

  The court had last week said it will issue a warrant against Ranaut if she fails to appear on the next date of hearing on September 20. Ranaut appeared before Andheri metropolitan magistrate R R Khan on Monday for the first time since summons was issued to her in February this year, and completed the bail formalities.

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  Javed Akhtar defamation case: Court says will issue warrant against Kangana if she fails to appear

  Celebrities | September 14, 2021 14:53 IST

  The lawyer submitted a medical certificate before the court and said Kangana has been traveling for the promotion of her film and has "developed COVID-19 symptoms". However, Akhtar's lawyer said this is an orchestrated tactic to delay the case proceedings.

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  Urfi on rumours of being related to Javed Akhtar: 'This is done to troll him and put his name down'

  Masala | September 09, 2021 23:11 IST

  Urfi Javed has refuted the rumours of being Javed Akhtar's granddaughter. She said that this is done to troll Akhtar and put his name down.  

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  Farhan Akhtar says Salim-Javed split never affected his relationship with Salman Khan and his family

  Celebrities | September 09, 2021 16:10 IST

  Farhan Akhtar stated that even though Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar parted ways professionally, it never affected his relationship with Salman Khan, Arbaaz and others in his family. 

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  HC dismisses Kangana's plea seeking quashing of defamation case initiated on Javed Akhtar's plaint

  September 09, 2021 12:45 IST

  Javed Akhtar had filed the criminal complaint against Kangana Ranaut in November last year before the Andheri metropolitan magistrate for allegedly making defamatory and baseless comments against him in a television interview.