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Abstract
Javed Akhtar attended an international workshop on the 1970s and its legacies hosted at Temple University in April 2011, where he held a public conversation with Priya Joshi before an audience of roughly 300 people. A selection of Mr. Akhtar's remarks appears below.
Acknowledgements
The editors of this volume offer heartfelt thanks to Nasreen Munni Kabir for her friendship and support. Her foundational books, Talking Films (1999) and Talking Songs (2005), invaluably archive Hindi cinema and Javed Akhtar's career in it. Akhtar's memoir, ‘About Myself’ (2001), offers an account of his arrival in Bombay and the combination of grit and good luck that propelled his success in films.
Priya Joshi's public conversation with Javed Akhtar in Philadelphia invited him to elaborate on topics fleetingly mentioned in his books with Kabir and to develop themes of more recent interest to scholars working on India's cinemas. We are deeply grateful to Javed Akhtar for his candor and courtly generosity during his visit. Special thanks to Daniel Ryan Morse for transcribing Mr Akhtar's public remarks; Rajinder Dudrah for his perspective and collaboration in planning the workshop and this volume; and Orfeo Fioretos for his immeasurable support and keen critical eye. Priya Joshi selected and edited the transcript for publication in this volume.