Angry Young Men

A 2022 documentary series about the screenwriting partnership of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, whose films helped shape Hindi popular cinema.

Salim Khan: An Indian screenwriter and producer known for co-writing major Hindi films with Javed Akhtar. The documentary follows his career and creative partnership with Akhtar.
Zanjeer: A 1973 Hindi action film starring Amitabh Bachchan as police officer Vijay Khanna. Its success established the screen persona later associated with the angry young man.
Salim–Javed: The screenwriting partnership of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, active from the early 1970s to 1982. This is the collaboration whose history the documentary recounts.
Angry young man: A fictional antihero whose anger expresses frustration with injustice, corruption, or social exclusion. Salim–Javed’s films helped make this figure a central Hindi-film archetype.
Javed Akhtar: An Indian poet, lyricist, and screenwriter who co-wrote influential Hindi films with Salim Khan. His work and recollections frame the partnership at the documentary’s center.
Deewaar: A 1975 Hindi crime drama written by Salim–Javed and directed by Yash Chopra. Its brothers’ conflict and antihero became a defining example of the duo’s writing.
Hindi cinema: The film industry centered in Mumbai that produces movies primarily in Hindi. The partnership emerged within this industry and reshaped its popular storytelling.
Amitabh Bachchan: An Indian actor whose leading roles in 1970s Hindi films made him a major star. Salim–Javed’s scripts helped shape his iconic angry-young-man screen image.
Zoya Akhtar: An Indian filmmaker who directed films including Luck by Chance, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, and Gully Boy. She co-directed the documentary about her father, Javed Akhtar.
Sholay: A 1975 Hindi action-adventure film directed by Ramesh Sippy and written by Salim–Javed. The documentary revisits the blockbuster that cemented the writers’ prominence.

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