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Honey Irani is an Indian actress and filmmaker who is best known for being the ex-wife of the noted Indian poet and screenwriter Javed Akhtar.

Wiki/Biography

Honey Irani was born on 25 August (age 68 years; as of ), in Mumbai.

Her zodiac sign is Virgo.

Physical Appearance

Height: 5&#; 2&#;

Weight: 85 kg

Eye Colour: Black

Hair Colour: Grey

Family, Caste & Wife

She was born in a Zoroastrian family to Noshir Irani and Perin Irani.

She is the youngest of her five siblings, namely, Menka, Bunny, Sarosh, and Daisy.

Honey got married to Javed Akhtar in the year , which ended in the year The duo had 2 children Zoya Akhtar, born in and Farhan Akhtar, born in ; both of them are successful filmmakers.

Honey was also engaged to Raj Hans in and Raj Nanvag in Honey is the maternal aunt of the film-makers Sajid Khan and Farah Khan.

She also has grandaughters Shakya and Akira.

Career

Honey Irani, began as a child actress in movies like &#;Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan&#; and &#;Bombay Ka Chor.&#;

She has acted in over 72 films.

After her divorce with Javed Akhtar, she started her career as a screenwriter with the movie Lamhe (). Her directorial debut was with the movie Armaan ().

See full list on wikibio.in Archived from the original on 23 August Archived from the original on 4 January Akhtar received training for boxing [ ] for his next release Toofan , a sports drama, directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra , which premiered on 21 May on Amazon Prime Video. Los Angeles Times.

Her blockbuster movies as a screenwriter include Koi&#; Mil Gaya () series, Kaho Naa&#; Pyaar Hai (), Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, and many more.

Awards

Filmfare Awards

• Best Story for the film Lamhe in

• Best Story for the film Kya Kehna in

• Best Screenplay for the film Kaho Naa&#; Pyaar Hai in

Favourite Things

• Film Genre: Romantic and Emotional

Facts

• She has worked in numerous movie projects with Meena Kumari as a child actress.

  She says that Meena Kumari was like her mother. She would clean her, dress her, feed her and play with her.

  Honey irani farhan akhtar biography Mumbai Mirror. The film was about a prison escape drama planned by a group of prisoners who also form a music band and was inspired by a real incident. More Details. After refusing an offer to sing a song for A.

  Meena Kumari with Honey Irani

• She met her ex-husband, poet and screenwriter Javed Akhtar on the sets of Seeta Aur Geeta.

• The story of how Javed proposed Honey is funny. It was on the sets of &#;Seeta Aur Geeta&#; when everybody was playing cards. Honey said that she would pull a card for Javed Akhtar.

  Javed Akhtar replied humorously that if the card was good, he would marry her. The card turned out to be good and hence, the marriage was declared.

• Honey&#;s mother initially didn&#;t approve of their wedding as Javed went with a proposal to her mother saying,
  

  I do not earn, I drink, I smoke, I gamble.&#;

  Much of that was re-enacted later in the movie &#;Sholay ().&#;

• When they got married, Javed was still a newbie in the Industry.

  They had no home to live.

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They were given a place to live in Irani&#;s older married sister Menaka&#;s home.

• After the marriage, Honey became a devoted homemaker and spent her days nurturing her children. Unfortunately, the marriage ended in divorce after Javed got involved with the actress Shabana Azmi.

• After the divorce, Honey also got alimony from Javed.

  However, soon she had to face financial constraints, and for subsistence, she started doing embroidery on Sarees.

• At the same time, she started writing short stories and poems, but never shared them to anyone.

• She has worked as an assistant director with the director Ramesh Talwar.

• She showed one of the scripts to Pam Chopra, wife of Yash Chopra, for TV series.

  The script was approved by Yash Chopra but was developed into a movie. The movie was &#;Aaina.&#;

• She had taken her script of the film &#;Aaina&#; first to the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC), but the film got rejected.

• After years of the breakup, Honey is still a good friend to Javed.

  She said that on Javed&#;s birthday, she, along with her children, go to visit him. She also says,
  

  Shabana and I greet each other. It’s cordial. There’s a lot of respect.

  See full list on wikibio.in In , Akhtar produced the film Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Retrieved 29 January Javed Akhtar divorced Irani, allegedly due to his relationship with Shabana Azmi and he married Shabana later for which they were criticized also. Archived from the original on 13 February

  That’s it. But it’s not as if we are Sahelis. Not at all.&#;