Zoya Akhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. Born to Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, she completed a diploma in filmmaking from NYU and assisted directors Mira Nair, Tony Gerber and Dev Benegal, before becoming an independent writer and director. She is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards.[1] Akhtar, along with Reema Kagti, founded Tiger Baby Films, a film and web studio in October 2015.
She made her directorial debut with the drama Luck by Chance (2009), and achieved her breakthrough with the ensemble buddy road comedy-drama Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), winning the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director for the former, and the Filmfare Award for Best Director for the latter. She followed it up with co-writing the psychological crime thriller Talaash: The Answer Lies Within (2012) alongside Reema Kagti, and directing Sheila Ki Jawaani, a segment of the anthology film Bombay Talkies (2013).
Akhtar then went on to direct the ensemble family comedy-drama Dil Dhadakne Do (2015), segments in the anthology films Lust Stories (2018) and Ghost Stories (2020), and the musical drama Gully Boy (2019), winning her second Filmfare Award for Best Director for the latter, thus becoming the only female director to have won the award twice. She ventured into the OTT space with the romantic comedy-drama series Made in Heaven (2019–present) and the crime thriller series Dahaad (2023–present). In 2023, she helmed the live-action feature film adaptation of The Archies for Netflix.
She is also a board member of Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI).[2]
^"Filmfare Awards Winners From 1953 to 2020". filmfare.com. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^"Mumbai Academy of Moving Image - Trustees Site". www.mumbaifilmfestival.com.
ZoyaAkhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. Born to Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, she completed...
the soundtrack of Bride and Prejudice (2004), for which he and sister ZoyaAkhtar served as lyricists. Next came the commercially successful Don (2006)...
Farhan and ZoyaAkhtar as atheists. Akhtar married Shabana Azmi, the daughter of Urdu poet, Kaifi Azmi and later divorced Irani. Akhtar's uncle, Asrar-ul-Haq...
Hindi-language road romantic comedy drama film directed by ZoyaAkhtar and produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani By Excel Entertainment. The film stars...
directorial debut. Written by Singh, ZoyaAkhtar, Reema Kagti and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Akhtar, Kagti, and Farhan Akhtar under the banners of Excel Entertainment...
Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by ZoyaAkhtar and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under the Excel Entertainment banner. The film...
has assisted both Farhan Akhtar and ZoyaAkhtar in all their films and commercials to date. Together, Reema and ZoyaAkhtar helm Tiger Baby Films, a film...
(2015), directed by ZoyaAkhtar. Like Zoya's previous films, it had an ensemble cast of Ranveer Singh, Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Anushka Sharma, Rahul...
written and directed by ZoyaAkhtar in her directorial debut. Produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, it stars Farhan Akhtar and Konkana Sen Sharma...
version of his character has been portrayed by Ranveer Singh in the ZoyaAkhtar-directed 2019 musical film Gully Boy. He made his film debut with the...
film directed by ZoyaAkhtar, and written by Akhtar and Reema Kagti. The film was produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar under the banners...
procedural crime thriller television series created by Reema Kagti and ZoyaAkhtar, directed by Reema Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi, and starring Sonakshi Sinha...
2000) is an Indian actor. He is known for his role as Reggie Mantle in ZoyaAkhtar's teen film The Archies (2023). Vedang Raina was born on June 2, 2000...
Javed Akhtar on the sets of Seeta Aur Geeta. They were married on 21 March 1972. She is the mother of film-makers ZoyaAkhtar and Farhan Akhtar. Irani's...
Irani; ZoyaAkhtar and Farhan Akhtar are their children. Farah Khan and Sajid Khan are Honey Irani's niece and nephew, and hence Farhan and ZoyaAkhtar's maternal...
December 2023. Bengani, Sneha (7 December 2023). "The Archies review: The ZoyaAkhtar film looks better than it is". CNBC TV18. Archived from the original...
Debut. Kapoor's next screen appearance came in 2020 when she starred in ZoyaAkhtar's segment in the Netflix horror anthology film Ghost Stories. Shubhra...
in 2019. At a success party of Inside Edge, filmmaker ZoyaAkhtar, whose brother Farhan Akhtar produced the show, spotted and asked Chaturvedi to audition...
consisting of four short film segments directed by Anurag Kashyap, ZoyaAkhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar and based on the concept of the 2013...
Tiger Baby is an Indian film production company owned by film directors ZoyaAkhtar and Reema Kagti. The company was founded in October 2015. Tiger Baby...
In 2012, he appeared alongside other celebrities in a short film by ZoyaAkhtar to generate awareness on breast cancer. He is the campaign ambassador...
suffers from the lack-of-a-story syndrome." Johar then teamed up with ZoyaAkhtar, Anurag Kashyap, and Dibakar Banerjee for Bombay Talkies (2013), an anthology...
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