By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I could write a line in metre. But I never dared to do it till I was… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am a secular rationalist Nationalist proud Indian who is inconvenient to both Hindu and Muslim communalists. — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Words are not thoughts, just like bricks are not homes. But houses are made with bricks. If you have less bricks, you will make… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
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… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind. — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Jab jab dard ka baadal chhaya,Jab gham ka saya lehraaya Jab aansoo palkon tak aaya,Jab yeh tanha dil ghabraaya Hum ne dil ko yeh… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Everything is now moving fast so communication has to be fast as well. But the tragedy is that we have attained this speed at… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Our real personality forms for ever before we are ten.Often it remains dormant because of other pressures but ultimately it takes over. — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
“If you plunder from west to east you are great like Alexander. if you do the same from east to west you are a… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
