Within the Hindi film industry, commonly known as Bollywood, there is a common, recurring theme of many members of a family participating in the film industry over several generations.
This page lists some of the notable clans and their noteworthy members. For South Indian film families, see List of South Indian film families and for Indian music families, see List of Indian music clans.
Akhtar family is considered to be one of the most prominent film clan in Hindi film Industry. It consists of poets, authors, script writer, directors, actors and Producer. Poet, author, philosopher and one of the main member in Indian Rebellion of 1857, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi was great great grand father of Javed Akhtar. Muztar Khairabadi an Indian Urdu poet was grand son of Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi and grand father of Javed Akhtar. Lyricist Javed Akhtar married the script writer Honey Irani. His second wife was actress Shabana Azmi. Azmi's nieces are actresses Farah Naaz and Tabu. Farhan and Zoya Akhtar's cousins are Farah and Sajid Khan.
Farhan Akhtar and Adhuna Akhtar