Honey Irani
| Honey Irani | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 January 1955 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation | Actress, screenwriter |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Subject | Love, Philosophy |
| Spouse | Javed Akhtar (divorced) |
| Children |
Zoya Akhtar Farhan Akhtar |
Honey Irani (born 17 January 1955) is an Indian film actress and screenwriter, who works in Hindi cinema.
Honey Irani began her Bollywood career as a child actress with roles in films like Chirag Kahaan Roshni Kahaan and Bombay Ka Chor. She has acted in over 72 films.
After her divorce she started doing embroidery on sarees to support her family. Though she has been writing short stories all this while, she never shared them. She told the story idea of Aaina (1993) to Pam Chopra,wife of Yash Chopra for a TV series but it was selected by Yash Chopra for a film. Yash Chopra also asked her to develop a story idea, which went on to become her debut as a screenwriter, Lamhe (1991), starring Sridevi. The film saw mediocre success but she won the Filmfare Award for Best Story for the film and it paved her way for a successful career as screenwriter. She won the award again for Kya Kehna in 2002, besides winning Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay with Ravi Kapoor for blockbuster Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai in 2001.
Honey Irani was born into an Irani, Zoroastrian family in Mumbai and her mother-tongue is Gujarati.
Irani met the script-writer and poet Javed Akhtar on the sets of Seeta Aur Geeta. They were married on 21 March 1972 and she was only 17 years old at that time. Her career as a child star had already ended and his career as a script-writer had not yet properly begun. They had no place to live in and were given a room in the house of Irani's older, married sister Menaka Shukla (either it should be Daisy Irani Shukla Or Menaka Khan). Their daughter Zoya Akhtar was born in 1972 and their son Farhan Akhtar in 1974. Irani became a devoted home-maker, but the marriage ended in divorce after her husband became involved with the actress Shabana Azmi in the mid-1970s. The couple were separated in 1978 and divorced in 1985. While Akhtar married Shabana Azmi in 1984, Irani devoted herself to the care of her two young children, who were six years and four years old respectively in 1978. She even started doing embroidery on sarees as a way of earning money to support her children. Eventually, she managed to make a second career for herself as a writer of film scripts. Both of Irani's children (son Farhan Akhtar and daughter Zoya Akhtar) grew up to be reasonably successful filmmakers.
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