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Zoya Akhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. After completing a diploma in filmmaking from NYU, she assisted directors such as Mira Nair, Tony Gerber and Dev Benegal, before becoming a writer and director herself. Akhtar is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards.[1] Zoya, along with Reema Kagti founded Tiger Baby Films, a film and web studio, in October 2015.

Zoya Akhtar
Akhtar at Filmfare Glamour & Style Awards in 2016
Born	(1972-10-14) 14 October 1972 (age 50) Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Alma mater	St. Xavier's College, Mumbai NYU (Tisch)
Occupation	Director screenwriter
Years active	1996–present
Notable work	Luck By Chance Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Bombay Talkies Dil Dhadakne Do Lust Stories Gully Boy Made in Heaven Ghost Stories
Relatives	See Akhtar family

She has directed movies such as Luck by Chance (2009), Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) and Sheila Ki Jawani, a segment of Bombay Talkies (2013). She has co-written Talaash (2012) alongside Reema Kagti. She then went on to direct Dil Dhadakne Do (2015) and Gully Boy (2019).

Personal life

Zoya Akhtar was born to poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar and screenwriter Honey Irani. Akhtar's stepmother is actress Shabana Azmi.[2] Her younger brother, Farhan Akhtar, is an actor and director. She attended Maneckji Cooper and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Xavier's College, both from Mumbai. Later, she joined the New York University Tisch School of the Arts to learn film production.

Her great-grandfather, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, a scholar of Islamic studies and theology, edited the first diwan of Mirza Ghalib on his request and later became a figure during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 in his native Khairabad.[3]

She is great-granddaughter of Urdu poet Muztar Khairabadi and granddaughter of poet Jan Nisar Akhtar.

Akhtar grew up in an agnostic environment and along with her brother Farhan and father Javed Akhtar, and does not believe in any religion.[4][5]

Career

Akhtar started her career as the co-director of a music video called Price of Bullets for a rock band called Pentagram. She has worked as a casting director for films including Split Wide Open (1999) and Dil Chahta Hai (2001), and as an assistant director for her brother Farhan Akhtar's films Dil Chahta Hai and Lakshya (2004). She then worked as an executive producer for her longtime associate and friend Reema Kagti's Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007), also produced by Excel Entertainment.[6]

Akhtar made her directorial debut with Luck By Chance (2009), starring her brother Farhan Akhtar and Konkona Sen Sharma. It tells the story of a struggling actor who breaks into the industry. The film was well received by critics, despite underperforming at the box office.[7][8]

In 2011, she directed Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, which starred an ensemble cast of Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, Katrina Kaif and Kalki Koechlin.[9] It turned out to be a huge commercial success at the box-office and won her the Filmfare Award for Best Director.

In 2013, Akhtar teamed up with Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar for Bombay Talkies. It was made as a celebration of 100 years of Indian cinema.[10][11] She then went on to direct Dil Dhadakne Do (2015), a film based on a dysfunctional Punjabi family starring Anil Kapoor as an egotistical industrialist, Shefali Shah as his bitter socialite-wife, and Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh as their children. The film also featured Anushka Sharma and Farhan Akhtar as love interests for Ranveer Singh and Priyanka Chopra respectively.[12][13]

In 2015, Akhtar along with Reema Kagti founded Tiger Baby Films, an Indian film production company.

In 2018, she then again teamed up with Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar for Lust Stories, which premiered on Netflix in June 2018.

After Dil Dhadakne Do, Akhtar directed Gully Boy starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt,[14] loosely based on the lives of Mumbai rapper Naezy.[15] Gully Boy won a second Best Director award at Filmfare. She thus became the only female director to win the award twice.

Zoya and Kagti also worked on a story for a web series produced by Tiger Baby Films and Excel Entertainment for Amazon Prime called Made in Heaven, a story about two wedding planners in New Delhi.[16][17]

She has also been invited to be a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[18]

In October 2019, she began directing a segment of Ghost Stories (2020), a horror anthology film, consisting of 4 short film segments. Other segments are directed by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar.[19] Ghost Stories premiered on Netflix on 1 January 2020.[20]

In November 2021, Netflix announced that Akhtar would direct a live-action feature film adaptation of The Archies.[21]

Filmography

Director

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Note(s)
2007	Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.	No	No	Yes
2009	Luck By Chance	Yes	Yes	executive	Director debut
2011	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara	Yes	Yes	No	co-writer : Reema Kagti
2012	Talaash	No	Yes	No
2013	Bombay Talkies	Yes	Yes	No	anthology film; Segment: Sheila Ki Jawaani
2015	Dil Dhadakne Do	Yes	Yes	No	co-writer : Reema Kagti
2018	Lust Stories	Yes	Yes	No	anthology film
2019	Gully Boy	Yes	Yes	Yes	co-writer : Reema Kagti
	Made in Heaven	Yes	Yes	No	TV series 2 episodes
2020	Ghost Stories	Yes	Yes	No	An anthology film;[19] Segment: Story 1
TBA	The Archies	Yes	No	No	Live-action musical film adaptation[22]

Executive producer

Year	Film	Producer
2007	Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.	Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani
2009	Luck By Chance

Lyricist

Year	Film
2004	Bride and Prejudice

Other appearances

She appeared on the Valentine's Day charity show of Kaun Banega Crorepati along with her brother Farhan Akhtar.[23] She also appeared in a very brief role as Rasa Devi's (Rekha's) courtesan in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in September 1996.[24] She and Shah Rukh Khan had a 'fireside chat' with Jeff Bezos of Amazon in January 2020.[25][26][27]

Awards and nominations

Film	Award	Category	Result	Ref
Luck By Chance	55th Filmfare Awards	Best Debut Director (shared with Ayan Mukerji for Wake Up Sid)	Won	[28][29]
		Best Story	Nominated
		Best Screenplay	Nominated
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara	57th Filmfare Awards	Best Director	Won	[30] [31]
	13th IIFA Awards	Best Director	Won	[32]
		Best Screenplay (with Reema Kagti)	Won
	18th Screen Awards	Best Director	Nominated	[33]
		Best Screenplay (with Reema Kagti)	Nominated
	Zee Cine Awards	Best Director	Nominated	[34]
		Best Story (with Reema Kagti)	Won
	Star Guild Awards 2012	Best Director	Won	[35]
		Best Screenplay (with Reema Kagti)	Won
	Stardust Awards	Dream Director	Nominated	[36]
Dil Dhadakne Do	22nd Screen Awards 2016	Best Director	Nominated	[37]
	Times of India Film Awards 2016	Best Director	Nominated	[38]
Gully Boy	26th Screen Awards	Best Director	Won	[39]
	65th Filmfare Awards	Best Director	Won	[40][41]
		Best Story (with Reema Kagti)	Nominated
		Best Screenplay (with Reema Kagti)	Won
	Zee Cine Awards	Best Director	Won	[42]
	Critics' Choice Film Awards 2020	Best Director (Hindi)	Won	[43]
	Jagran Film Festival	Best Writing (with Reema Kagti)	Won	[44]
	Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2019	Best Film	Nominated	[45]
		Best Director	Won
	9th AACTA Awards	Best Asian Film	Nominated	[46]
	Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival	NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film	Won	[47]
	21st IIFA Awards	Best Director	Nominated	[48]
		Best Story (with Reema Kagti)	Won
Made in Heaven	iReel Awards 2019	Best Writing - Drama	Nominated	[49]

References

External links

• Zoya Akhtar at IMDb

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[es] Zoya Akhtar

Zoya Akhtar (Bombay, Maharashtra, 14 de octubre de 1972) es una directora de cine y guionista india. Tras completar sus estudios de dirección de cine se desempeñó como asistente de cineastas como Mira Nair, Tony Gerber y Dev Benegal, antes de empezar a dirigir sus propias películas.[1]

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[ru] Ахтар, Зоя

Зоя Ахтар (англ. Zoya Akhtar; род. 9 января 1974, Бомбей) — индийский кинорежиссёр и сценарист.

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