Javed Siddiqui is a Hindi

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 and Urdu

Urdu

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 screenwriter, dialogue writer and playwright from India

India

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. He has written over 50 storylines, screenplays and dialogues.

During his career, Siddiqui has collaborated with some of India's most prominent filmmakers, from independent directors like Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

 and Shyam Benegal

Shyam Benegal

Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur , Nishant Manthan and Bhumika he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India although he himself has expressed dislike in the term preferring his work to...

 to commercial directors like Yash Chopra

Yash Chopra

Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...

 and Subhash Ghai

Subhash Ghai

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, he became an integral part of Indian cinema, in both commercial and art cinema fields.

Siddiqui has won two Filmfare Awards

Filmfare Awards

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, two Star Screen Awards

Star Screen Awards

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 and one BFJA Award.
Recently, he announced his association with Tumbhi where he would review artists and their artwork.(2010).

Cinema and television

After having graduated in Urdu Literature from Rampur

Rampur, Uttar Pradesh

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, Javed Siddiqui migrated to Bombay (now Mumbai

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) in 1959, working as a professional journalist for various Urdu dailies like Khilafat Daily and Inquilaab. Soon after that, he went on to lead his own newspaper, Urdu reporter.

He started his career, as a dialogue writer in Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

's Shatranj Ke Khiladi

Shatranj Ke Khiladi

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 in 1977.

Since then, he has been highly regarded for his works in different genres of film making, including art films of parallel cinema

Parallel Cinema

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, like Umrao Jaan

Umrao Jaan

Umrao Jaan is a 1981 Bollywood film, directed by Muzaffar Ali. It is based on the Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada , written by Mirza Hadi Ruswa based on the famous Lucknow courtesan...

, Mammo

Mammo

Mammo is a film by Shyam Benegal released in 1994. The film stars Farida Jalal, Surekha Sikri and Rajit Kapur.The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi in 1995. Farida Jalal won Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance, while Surekha Sikri won the National Film Award...

, Fiza

Fiza

Fiza is a 2000 Indian film written and directed by Khalid Mohammed. The film stars Karisma Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan and Jaya Bachchan.- Synopsis :...

, Zubeidaa

Zubeidaa

Zubeidaa is a 2001 Indian film directed by Shyam Benegal and written by Khalid Mohammed. It stars Karisma Kapoor, Rekha, Manoj Bajpai, Surekha Sikri, Rajit Kapoor, Lillete Dubey, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, and Shakti Kapoor...

 and Tehzeeb

Tehzeeb

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; as well as commercial hits, such as Baazigar

Baazigar

Baazigar is a 1993 Indian Hindi film directed by Abbas-Mustan. Inspired by the novel A Kiss Before Dying, it is a contemporary thriller about a young man who stops at nothing to get what he wants. The film shocked its Indian audience with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula,...

, Darr

Darr

Darr: A Violent Love Story is a 1993 Bollywood psychological thriller film directed by Yash Chopra. It is the story of an obsessed lover and the lengths he goes to get his girl who is already happily married to Sunil Malhotra . It is the second film in which Shahrukh Khan played the role of a...

, Yeh Dillagi

Yeh Dillagi

Yeh Dillagi is a 1994 Bollywood film, produced by Yash Chopra and directed by Naresh Malhotra. It is an adaptation of the Audrey Hepburn movie Sabrina. It stars Akshay Kumar, Kajol and Saif Ali Khan. Karisma Kapoor has a special appearance. The film was a big success in 1994...

, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge , also known as DDLJ, is a Hindi language film released on 20 October 1995. A romantic comedy, the film marked the directorial debut of Aditya Chopra, and stars Shahrukh Khan and Kajol...

, Raja Hindustani

Raja Hindustani

The soundtrack was composed by Nadeem Shravan. It consisted of tracks like "Kinna Sona Tenu" which was based on a song with the same title by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and "Pardesi Pardesi" .- 1996 Filmfare Awards :Won* Filmfare...

, Pardes, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke

Chori Chori Chupke Chupke

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 and Koi... Mil Gaya

Koi... Mil Gaya

Koi... Mil Gaya is a 2003 Bollywood science fiction film, directed by Rakesh Roshan , starring Hrithik Roshan, Rekha, and Preity Zinta. It was released on 8 August 2003...

.

He has also written scripts for serials like Shyam Benegal

Shyam Benegal

Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur , Nishant Manthan and Bhumika he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India although he himself has expressed dislike in the term preferring his work to...

's Bharat Ek Khoj

Bharat Ek Khoj

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, Ramesh Sippy

Ramesh Sippy

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's Kismet, Yash Chopra

Yash Chopra

Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...

's Waqt and more.

Theatre

Siddiqui's has seen success in the theatre field as well. From serving IPTA

Ipta

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 as a National Vice President, he later contributed in the origin and functioning of the Marathi

Marathi language

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 IPTA as well, and has been associated with it as a national member.

His play, Tumhari Amrita

Tumhari Amrita

Tumhari Amrita is a play directed by Feroz Abbas Khan. Its two member cast include Shabana Azmi and Farooq Sheikh. It is an Indian context adaptation of A. R. Gurney's hugely popular American play, Love Letters in Epistolary form, and the Hindi/Urdu version was created in 1992 by playwright Javed...

, based on A R Gurney's classic American play, Love Letters

Love Letters (play)

Love Letters is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama nominated play by A. R. Gurney. The play centers on just two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III...

, with only two actors (Shabana Azmi

Shabana Azmi

Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. An alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India of Pune, she made her film debut in 1974 and soon became one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, an Indian New Wave movement known for its serious content and...

 and Farooq Shaikh

Farooq Shaikh

Farooq Sheikh or Farooque Sheikh is an Indian actor, philanthropist and a popular television presenter. He is best known for his films during the 1970s and 1980s. His major contribution was in Parallel Cinema or the New Indian Cinema...

) reading out letters to each other, became critically successful. Since its debut in 1993, the play has been performed all over the world, including a special performance at the United Nations

United Nations

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, the first Indian play to do so.

This was followed by Saalgirah, starring actress Kirron Kher

Kirron Kher

Kirron Kher is an Indian theatre, film and television actress and a TV talk show host.- Early life :Kirron Kher was born in Bangalore in a JatSikh family of Punjabi background. She was brought up in Chandigarh, Punjab, where she did her schooling and later college from Panjab University, Chandigarh...

, a play dealing with the complexity of divorce in modern urban life.

Siddiqui has successfully ventured in various domains, from Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

 to more contemporary themes in his adaptations. He has adapted Bertolt Brecht's play Puntilla and several of his other works. His play Andhe Choohe on Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

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's Mousetrap

Mousetrap

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, is one of the world's longest running play. In the words of critic, Vijay Nair

Vijay Nair

Vijay Nair was one of the eight nominees of the Leader of the Opposition to the Senate of Fiji after the 2006 elections.- References :...

, "Javed Siddiqi’s lines are as poignant as ever. They leap out of the letters as little gems. At times they plead with the incoherence of hurts long stifled. At times they flare up like little flames scorching the audience. At times they sooth like fresh raindrops after a scorching summer. But at all times they have a life of their own and make their presence felt like an invisible third character on stage." His play 1857: Ek Safarnama set in Indian Rebellion of 1857

Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...

 was also stage at Purana Qila, Delhi ramparts by Nadira Babbar

Nadira Babbar

Nadira Babbar is an Indian theatre actress, director and an actress in Hindi cinema, who is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001. A leading name in Indian theatre, Nadira founded a Mumbai-based theatre group called Ekjute, a known name in Hindi theatre in 1981...

 and National School of Drama

National School of Drama

National School of Drama is a theatre training institute situated at New Delhi, India, established . It is an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It was set up in 1959 by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, and became an independent school in 1975...

 Repertory company, in 2008.

Over the years he has written numerous plays, including Hamesha

Hamesha

Hamesha English: Forever) is a Hindi romance movie written and directed by Sanjay Gupta. The film stars Kajol, Saif Ali Khan and Aditya Pancholi in the lead roles. Aruna Irani and Kader Khan have supporting roles in the film. The film explores reincarnation.- Synopsis :Raja and Yash Vardhan are...

, Begum Jaan, Aap Ki Soniya and Kacche Lamhe.

Personal life

Siddiqui has four children Murad, Lubna, Sameer and Zeba. Lubna Salim

Lubna Salim

Lubna Salim is an Indian theater and television actress, best known for her role as Leela Thakkar on the popular, long-running Hindi soap Baa Bahoo Aur Baby. She has appeared in many other popular television programs including Bharat Ek Khoj, Daaman, Chhatrapati Shivaji and Mera Naam Karegi Roshan...

, and Sameer are both related to the film and theatre arena. Lubna is a stage actor-singer, and married to theatre and television director Salim Arif, Murad has a production company and a Director of many of TV Programs, while Sameer has followed in his father's footsteps, he is writing for hindi films & TV Soaps.

Awards

• 1994 Filmfare Award Best Screenplay  for Baazigar
  Baazigar
  Baazigar is a 1993 Indian Hindi film directed by Abbas-Mustan. Inspired by the novel A Kiss Before Dying, it is a contemporary thriller about a young man who stops at nothing to get what he wants. The film shocked its Indian audience with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula,...
  
  
• 1996 Filmfare Award Best Dialogues for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
  Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
  Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge , also known as DDLJ, is a Hindi language film released on 20 October 1995. A romantic comedy, the film marked the directorial debut of Aditya Chopra, and stars Shahrukh Khan and Kajol...
  
  
• 1996 Screen Award Best Screenplay for Raja Hindustani
  Raja Hindustani
  The soundtrack was composed by Nadeem Shravan. It consisted of tracks like "Kinna Sona Tenu" which was based on a song with the same title by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and "Pardesi Pardesi" .- 1996 Filmfare Awards :Won* Filmfare...
  
  

Film writer

• Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977) (dialogue)
• Bara (1980) (screenplay)
• Umrao Jaan (1981) (dialogue) (screenplay)
• Sohni Mahiwal (1984) (dialogue) (screenplay)
• Do Dilon Ki Dastaan (1985) (dialogue)
• Naam O Nishan (1987) (dialogue)
• Mar Mitenge (1988) (dialogue) (screenplay)
• Aakhri Adaalat (1988) (dialogue)
• Shukriyaa (1988) (dialogue)
• Guru (1989)
• Ilaaka (1989) (written by)
• Baaghi: A Rebel for Love (1990) (written by)
• Adharm (1992) (dialogue)
• Baazigar (1993) (written by)
• Dhanwaan (1993) (dialogue) (screenplay)
• Darr (1993) (dialogue)
• Mammo (1994) (dialogue)
• Chauraha (1994) (dialogue) (screenplay)
• Yeh Dillagi (1994) (dialogue)
• Zamaana Deewana (1995) (written by)
• Gaddaar (1995) (screenplay) (story)
• Hum Dono (1995) (written by)
• Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) (dialogue)
• Chaahat (1996) (written by)
• Raja Hindustani (1996) (dialogue)
• Pardes (1997) (dialogue)
• Duplicate (1998) (written by)
• Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai (1998) (dialogue)
• Angaaray (1998) (written by)
• Barood (1998) (dialogue)
• Soldier (1998) (dialogue)
• Dahek: A Burning Passion (1998) (dialogue)
• Dil Kya Kare (1999) (dialogue)
• Taal (1999) (dialogue)
• Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa (2000) (dialogue)
• Fiza (2000) (dialogue)
• Raju Chacha (2000) (dialogue)
• Zubeidaa (2001) (dialogue)
• Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (2001) (dialogue)
• Albela (2001)
• Kya Yehi Pyaar Hai (2002)
• Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai (2002) (dialogue)
• Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin (2002)
• Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) (dialogue)
• Zameen (2003) (dialogue)
• Tehzeeb (2003) (dialogue)
• Dil Maange More!!! (2004) (dialogue) (screenplay)
• Blackmail (2005) (dialogue)
• Ek Dhun Banaras Kee (2006) (dialogue)
• Humko Tumse Pyar Hai (2006) (dialogue)
• Shaukeen (Under Production)

Plays

• Tumhari Amrita
• Saalgirah
• Hamesha
• Begum Jaan
• Aap ki Soniya
• Kacche Lamhe
• Dhuaan
• Aur Agle Saal
• Kate hue Raaste
• Patjhad se Zara Pehle
• Shyam Rang
• Who Ladki
• Raat
• Mogra
• Maati Kahe Kumhar Se
• Peele Patton ka Ban

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