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Salim Khan said he doesn't understand why Javed Akhtar ended their partnership. Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar worked on 24 movies together, of which 22 were blockbusters. Their biggest hits include Sholay, Don and Zanjeer.
They parted ways in the early 1980s, leaving the industry in shock. In a recent interview, Salim Khan recalled the moment Javed Akhtar told him he wanted to write independently. Salim Khan said, as quoted by SCREEN, “Even I never understood, how will I explain it to anyone else? On one random day, he suddenly said that he wants to separate.
We used to work together from morning till night. When he said main alag hona chaahta hu (I want to separate), I thought I didn’t hear him clearly, but he was asking for a separation. I said you must have thought it through, it can’t be a sudden thought.
He said that he was thinking about it since a long time." Salim Khan recalled, “He was coming to see me off till the car, but maine unko roka aur bola (I stopped him and said), ‘I can look after myself’. I never felt any bitterness towards him.
There was no fight between us. It was partnership that broke one day and no one got to know what happened and why," he shared. The veteran actor-producer continued, “I never asked him again why it happened.
Jab yeh ho hi gaya toh poochne ka kya hi matlab tha (What’s the point of asking why it happened). He did his own films separately, many announcements came out after that." In the docu-series Angry Young Men, Javed Akhtar opened up about the split and said, “When you start working together, you’re new in the business, you don’t know many people.
You keep each other company. Perhaps, out of 24 hours, we were together for 18 hours." “Then I made new friends, and he made new friends, and slowly our circles started separating.
Our evening meetings stopped, that was also a reason, but that was not the major reason. The major reason, according to me, was that the spring of our career was drying up. Fatigue was showing in our work too.
No doubt about that," Javed Akhtar said. Salim weighed in on the split and said that the duo unanimously decided they would not publicly divulge the reason behind their split. “Yes, we did part ways, but we did it in a very civilized way.
Normally, what happens when people part ways, they throw mud at each other and talk ill. We sometimes argued, we’re not perfect, but no one is. I’d give my side of the story, he’d give his.
So we just never talked about parting ways. Even when people asked us why or how it happened, we said we don’t know, we don’t like to talk about it. We only speak about the good times we had," he said.
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