Angry Young Men

The duo of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, transformed Indian cinema with their powerful storytelling, complex characters, and memorable dialogues. Their partnership produced several iconic films that redefined Indian film industry and continues to inspire even today.

'Angry Young Men' takes us back to where it all started. Putting this together is commendable work by director. The way I see 3 episodes is just an introduction to Salim-Javed story. We all want more from 'Angry Young Men'.

The scene where Javed sahib tells about his struggle and how it still continues to remind him those days, the pause he takes when he is telling breakfast story,really takes your heart away.

Similarly Salim sahib also tells heart-wrenching storyof his mother and how he was not able to meet her for years, makes you cry.

This series also tries find some connection between their life and why they have written such a great stories. A must watch and should have next season to cover more.

Salim-Javed is a foundational pillar which defined the stylish 70s as we know it. If are a fan of the duo, you would have already known most of the trivia and background stories covered in the 3-espisode mini series. What stood out for me are the following bits: 1) Yeaterday year footage its makers managed to bring back on screen and description of Salim-Javed's individual struggles before their legendary association happened.

2) The opening credit score capturing the funky 70s music and animation 3) screen time allocated to Sholay & Deewaar, given a total of 3 episodes

What I missed out on: 1) More details on some of their less discussed work. This should have been an 8-episode series with dedicated time given to Kaala Patthar, Don, Shaan, Shakti, and Mr. India.

2) More of Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan and Dharmendra footage because that's gold snippets.

3) An episode just on their wild life and parties after they made it big. That aspect was just given a lip service by calling them 'brats' 3) How the other big directors of the time (Prakash Mehra and M Desai) felt about their scripts and why they didn't work more together?

4) How they contributed to making the background music impacting the scenes written by them on camera.

There is much more I wanted to see but hopefully they will release it in parts over next season.

A very interesting documentary on the professional and personal lives of these 2 great writers of many excellent Hindi movies. My 2 main takeaways were that once again extreme arrogance led to their downfall and neither of them till date has singularly been able to replicate their successes they enjoyed when they were together as a pair and perhaps more grounded and much much less arrogant. Furthermore their greatness lies in the fact that till date no single writer or a pr or a bunch of writers has/have been able to come up with such an excellent collection of splendid scripts as Salim Javed have done.

Growing up on a steady diet of Salim-Javed films, it was heartwarming to hear folks talk about stories behind these movies.

While many of the facts were known from other interviews, the docu series does a good job of re-presenting the facts, most being narrated by big names in Hindi Film Industry who themselves have at some point in their careers been inspired by these writers.

Every cinema lover deserves to know the story of this writer duo who at one point got paid as much as the lead star in a big budget movie. Their names alone drew audiences into the theaters. I doubt if such feats will ever be repeated again!

Every film buff knew about Salim -Javed , there works etc.

But this documentary goes deep into lives, there thought process of making stories, there history of childhood, divorce etc etc.

Nunaces of there stories, there thinkings, how each character developed and how it affected the whole generation is very well shown.

It's well made and everyone was speaking truth as per there thinking. Everyone tried to be honest and gave there perspective.

I think it's worth the watch and how the greatest story writers of Hindi Cinema has evolved is very well shown.

Though everyone spoke i missed ms Salma's viewpoints.