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Bigoted idiots...: Javed Akhtar's message to Shami amid roza row

 Days after cricketer Mohammed Shami was criticised for not observing roza (fast) in the month of Ramzan during the ICC Champions Trophy semi-final match against Australia, veteran lyricist Javed......

Kangana settles defamation case with 'kind and gracious' Javed Akhtar

 Actor Kangana Ranaut on Friday resolved the over four-year-long defamation case filed against her by veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar through mediation, with the BJP MP apologising for the......

History In Minutes: Javed Akhtar's Freedom Fighter Family

 Syed Firdaus Ashraf offers a ready reckoner on Javed Akhtar's great great grandfather Fazl e Haq Khairabadi who fought the British empire during the 1857 Mutiny and was imprisoned in the Cellular......

Complainant drops out, Javed Akhtar acquitted in RSS defamation case

 A Mumbai court has acquitted veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar in a defamation case against him over his alleged objectionable remarks on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as the complainant has......

SEE: Javed Akhtar asks people to chant 'Jai Siya Ram'

 Lyricist Javed Akhtar said that Hindus have always been tolerant, adding that democracy in India existed because of Hindus at an event in Mumbai on Friday. IMAGE: Poet Lyricist Javed Akhtar at an......

The take-off and crash-landing of Jet's Naresh Goyal

 In a dramatic turn of events in May 2019, an Emirates aircraft en-route to Dubai was asked to stop while it was taxiing for a take off in Mumbai. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The pilot......

Advertising titan, civic activist, actor, writer Gerson da Cunha is dead

 Advertising industry veteran Gerson da Cunha, a multi-faceted personality passionate about civic activism in later years, died in Mumbai on Friday after a brief illness, a former colleague said.......

FM likely to attend DEA's annual function

 Finance Minister P Chidambaram is likely to attend the annual retreat function of the Department of Economic Affairs officials on Saturday."Finance Minister P Chidambaram will attend the sixth......

FinMin officials set for date with Nandita Das, Gautam Gambhir

 After a date with Bollywood actress Chitrangada Singh and lyricist Javed Akhtar last year, finance ministry officials are set for a rendezvous with film actress Nandita Das and cricketer Gautam......

PIX: Javed Akhtar, Sonu Nigam, Shaan pay tribute to RD Burman

 The music fraternity came together to honour the late legend.Veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar was among many stars of the Hindi film industry's music fraternity who attended the 75th birth anniversary......

Meet The *Real* Stars Of Sholay

 Salim-Javed became the first Hindi film writers who could be considered brands, and they are still boldface names, celebrities in their own right, chronicles Dinesh Raheja. IMAGE: Salim Khan and......

When Javed Akhtar and Lata Mangeshkar got together

 Yet another honour for Javed Akhtar. Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images Veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar has been honoured with the Hridaynath Mangeshkar award.  Akhtar......

Javed Akhtar: I couldn't get up from the bed or lie down

 On the morning of November 29, poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar had a terrifying experience -- he couldn't move!Recalling the horror of having lost the power of his limbs, Javedsaabsays, “On......

Shabana, Javed pay tribute to A K Hangal

 A day after veteran actor A K Hangal passed away, members of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) paid tribute to him with a small function at Prithvi Theatre in Juhu, a western suburb of......

Exclusive: Shyam Benegal on the Commonwealth Games

 Decision-making in the government is a painful affair, film director Shyam Benegal, one of the masterminds behind last week's Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, tells Rediff.com's Patcy N.Behind......

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