18 Facts About Zoya Akhtar

Zoya Akhtar was born on 14 October 1972 and is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema.

Zoya Akhtar has directed movies such as Luck by Chance, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Sheila Ki Jawani, a segment of Bombay Talkies.

Zoya Akhtar then went on to direct Dil Dhadakne Do and Gully Boy.

Zoya Akhtar is the board member of Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image.

Zoya Akhtar was born to poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar and screenwriter Honey Irani.

Zoya Akhtar's younger brother, Farhan Akhtar, is an actor and director.

Zoya Akhtar attended Maneckji Cooper and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from St Xavier's College, both from Mumbai.

Zoya Akhtar grew up in an agnostic environment and along with her brother Farhan and father Javed Zoya Akhtar, and does not believe in any religion.

Zoya Akhtar started her career as the co-director of a music video called Price of Bullets for a rock band called Pentagram.

Zoya Akhtar has worked as a casting director for films including Split Wide Open and Dil Chahta Hai, and as an assistant director for her brother Farhan Akhtar's films Dil Chahta Hai and Lakshya.

Zoya Akhtar then worked as an executive producer for her longtime associate and friend Reema Kagti's Honeymoon Travels Pvt.

Zoya Akhtar made her directorial debut with Luck By Chance, starring her brother Farhan Zoya Akhtar and Konkona Sen Sharma.

In 2013, Zoya Akhtar teamed up with Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar for Bombay Talkies.

Zoya Akhtar then went on to direct Dil Dhadakne Do, a film based on a dysfunctional Punjabi family starring Anil Kapoor as an egotistical industrialist, Shefali Shah as his bitter socialite-wife, and Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh as their children.

Zoya Akhtar thus became the only female director to win the award twice.

Zoya Akhtar has been invited to be a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Zoya Akhtar appeared on the Valentine's Day charity show of Kaun Banega Crorepati along with her brother Farhan Akhtar.

Zoya Akhtar appeared in a very brief role as Rasa Devi's courtesan in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in September 1996.