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Deewaar 2: Salim vs Javed in Narendra Modi-starrer

AHMEDABAD: They havent spoken to each other for the last 30 years. Nobody really knows why Bollywoods blockbuster pair separated after scripting hits like Sholay and Deewaar. Now, they find themselves on opposite sides in this Narendra Modi blockbuster. Javed Akhtar has long been a critic of the Gujarat chief minister, one of the few intellectuals who have not softened their stance on him for his complicity in the Gujarat riots of 2002. His estranged partner, Salim Khan, has been going around supporting the idea that Muslims should make peace with Modi and be partners in development. Out of the duo, Salim was said to be the master of the plot -he always had the big picture; Javed was the one who used to do the detailing, putting in the nuts and bolts and dialogues in the script.While Salim wrote intermittently after the pair split, Javed continued with his writing even more intensively, dabbling often with activism. In 2007, Javed moved the Supreme Court seeking a probe by a special investigation team into the alleged fake encounters in Gujarat claiming that innocent people, particularly Muslims, were being targeted as terrorists. Earlier, in April 2005, soon after Modi was denied a US visa, Javed had shot off a letter to Modi, complaining about the inclusion of his statement on the visa denial issue in a compilation brought out by the Gujarat government.

                                                                                                               
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