Javed Siddiqui was born on 13 January 1942 and is a Hindi and Urdu screenwriter, dialogue writer and playwright from India.
14 Facts About Javed Siddiqui
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Javed Siddiqui has written over 50 storylines, screenplays and dialogues.
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Javed Siddiqui has become an integral part of Indian cinema, in both commercial and art cinema fields.
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Javed Siddiqui started his career as a dialogue writer in Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari in 1977.
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Javed Siddiqui has written scripts for serials like Shyam Benegal's Bharat Ek Khoj, Ramesh Sippy's Kismet, Yash Chopra's Waqt and others.
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Javed Siddiqui was national vice-president of Indian People's Theatre Association, and later contributed to the origin and functioning of the Marathi IPTA, and has been associated with it as a national member.
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Javed Siddiqui has adapted Brecht's play Puntilla and several of his other works.
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Javed Siddiqui's plays include Hamesha, Begum Jaan, Aap Ki Soniya and Kacche Lamhe.
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Javed Siddiqui Siddiqi belongs to the family of great freedom fighters, Mohammad Ali Jouhar and his brother Maulana Shaukat Ali.
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Javed Siddiqui's father was an assistant librarian at Raza Library.
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Javed Siddiqui passed his high school in English in Aligarh Muslim University.
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At the age of 17, he moved to Bombay and under the guidance of his uncle Maulana Zahid Shaukat Ali, Javed Siddiqui started his career as a journalist in his Urdu newspaper Khilafat Daily.
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Javed Siddiqui worked in newspapers such as Inquilab and Hindustan and then started his own newspaper named Urdu Reporter.
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Two of them, Lubna Salim and Sameer Javed Siddiqui, are involved in film and theatre.