Javed Siddiqi (Urdu: ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ Hindi: ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) (13 January 1942) is a leading Hindi and Urdu screenwriter, Dialogue Writer and Playwright from India. With over 80 storylines, screenplays and dialogues, he has covered the entire spectrum of Indian cinema, from mainstream and parallel streams with great success. During his career, Siddiqi began with Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khiladi and went on to work with some of India's most prominent filmmakers ike Shyam Benegal, Yash Chopra, Ramesh Sippy, Subhash Ghai, Mani Ratnam, Rakesh Roshan, Mahesh Bhatt, Aditya Chopra and Muzaffar Ali. He wrote beautiful pen sketches about many legends of Urdu like Satyajit Ray, Kaifi Azmi, M.F.Hussain, Niyaz Haider etc...