Angry Young Men Review: Docuseries Is An Unabashed Celebration of Salim & Javed
The documentary on Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar is directed by Namrata Rao.
By: KAASHIF HAJEE
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“Kitne aadmi the?” Angry Young Men depicts the famous dialogue from Sholay early on. “Do aadmi the,” comes the response, as the Amazon Prime Video series cuts to a young Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, now aged 88 and 78 respectively. The title refers not merely to the seminal Angry Young Man they created, but also the writing duo themselves, who it treats with comparable heroism.
Debut-directed by Namrata Rao and co-produced by Salman Khan Films, Excel Entertainment, and Tiger Baby, the series introduces the mythology of Salim-Javed, the seminal writing partners who, Dharmendra tells us, “brought a revolution in the writing of screenplays and dialogues” in the 1970s.
They “gatecrashed into the citadel of Bollywood,” Mahesh Bhatt adds, and “introduced the age of the writer.”
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