Editing Javed Akhtar (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Javed Akhtar.jpg|thumb|Javed Akhtar in Dec 2014]]
Javed Akhtar was born in 1945 in [[Gwalior]].<ref>{{cite book |editor=Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen |title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA204 |date=10 July 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-94318-9 |page=204 }}</ref> His father [[Jan Nisar Akhtar]] was a [[Bollywood]] film songwriter and [[Urdu]] poet.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/on-fathers-day-javed-akhtar-recalls-the-man-who-taught-him-poetry/article6117318.ece|title=On Father's Day, Javed Akhtar recalls the man who taught him poetry|date=16 June 2014|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=26 August 2015|archive-date=20 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620053117/http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/on-fathers-day-javed-akhtar-recalls-the-man-who-taught-him-poetry/article6117318.ece?|url-status=live}}</ref> His paternal grandfather [[Muztar Khairabadi]] was a poet as was his grandfather's elder brother, Bismil Khairabadi, while his great great grandfather, [[Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi]], was a religious scholar of Islam who declared the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] against the western colonies.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-16|title=Happy Birthday Javed Akhtar: 10 best quotes from the legendary lyricist and writer|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/happy-birthday-javed-akhtar-10-best-quotes-from-the-legendary-lyricist-and-writer/story-nMOML8p1DiO13gS1s5nraJ.html|access-date=2021-07-23|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|archive-date=23 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723075941/https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/happy-birthday-javed-akhtar-10-best-quotes-from-the-legendary-lyricist-and-writer/story-nMOML8p1DiO13gS1s5nraJ.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Javed Akhtar's original name was Jadoo, taken from a line in a poem written by his father: "Lamha, lamha kisi jadoo ka fasana hoga". He was given the official name of Javed since it was close to the word ''jadoo''.<ref name="Chopra">{{cite book |title= [[Sholay: The Making of a Classic]] |last= Chopra |first= Anupama |year= 2000 |publisher= Penguin Books India|isbn= 0-14-02997-0X |page= 16 }}</ref> He spent most of his childhood and was schooled in [[Lucknow]]. He graduated from Saifiya College in [[Bhopal]].<ref>{{cite book |editor=David John Matthews |title=Quiver: Poems and Ghazals |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hN9jAAAAMAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-81-7223-437-9}}</ref>