Zoya Akhtar

Zoya Akhtar, daughter of Javed Akhtar and sister of Farhan, writes and directs films about the rich that somehow avoid being flattering to them. Luck by Chance dissected the film industry’s own hypocrisies; Dil Dhadakne Do put a wealthy family on a cruise ship and let their dysfunction leak out slowly across the voyage.

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara became a defining travel-and-friendship film for a generation, and then Gully Boy, following a street rapper out of the Mumbai slums, showed she could turn her eye on the other end of the class spectrum with equal precision, taking the film to the Oscars as India’s entry. Her streaming series Made in Heaven applied the same unsparing gaze to the wedding industry.

She is a fixture of the industry’s most creative circles and a regular at its events. Our cameras welcome the sightings.

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