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Names	JAVED AKHTAR
Date of Birth	January 17, 1945
Identity	Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter
Special Achievements / Events	He was a Muslim but later became Atheist. He won 13 Filmfare Awards. 2013: He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu, India's second highest literary honour, for his poetry collection Lava. November 16, 2009: He was nominated to the Parliament upper house Rajya Sabha on this day. He divorced his first wife Honey Irani and later married Shabana Azmi, the daughter of another Urdu poet, Kaifi Azmi.

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