Notable among them were songs from his breakthrough film, AR Kardar’s Yasmin (1955), Aankhon hi Aankhon Mein in Guru Dutt's C.I.D. (1956), Yeh dil aur unki nigahon ke saaye in Prem Parbat (1974) and Aaja re in Noorie (1979) and his last song, Ae Dil-e-naadaan, in Kamal Amrohi’s Razia Sultan (1983).
Javed Akhtar | Jan van Eyck | Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts | Jan Hammer | Jan Peerce | Jan Hus | Jan Mayen | Jan Guillou | Jan Smuts | Jan Fabre | Jan Morris | Jan Matejko | Shoaib Akhtar | Jan Garbarek | Ignacy Jan Paderewski | Jan van Riebeeck | Jan Troell | Jan Tinbergen | Jan Neruda | Jan-Michael Vincent | Jan Kochanowski | Zeti Akhtar Aziz | Jan Brewer | Jan Bechtum | Jan Zamoyski | Jan Ullrich | Jan Peter Balkenende | Jan Egeland | Saeed Akhtar Mirza | Robert Jan Stips |
He has received many awards and citations from eminent personalities like the former President of India Zakir Hussain, the former Prime Minister of India Shri Inder Kumar Gujral, along with scholars, poets, editors and music personalities including Padmashree Saghar Nizami, Jan Nisar Akhtar, Makhmoor Sayeedi, Rehman Nayyar, and Naushad.
He was born into a Muslim family in Khairabad, Uttar Pradesh to Jan Nisar Akhtar, a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet, and singer Safia Akhtar, a teacher and writer.