By Naman Ramachandran

Prime Video will premiere “Angry Young Men,” a three-part documentary series that chronicles the personal and professional journey of legendary screenwriting duo Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, collectively known as Salim-Javed.

Produced by Salman Khan Films, Excel Media & Entertainment and Tiger Baby, the docuseries is executive produced by Salma Khan, Salman Khan, Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti. It delves into how Salim-Javed revolutionized Indian cinema in the 1970s by reinventing the Bollywood formula, introducing ‘angry young man’ heroes in a romance-dominated industry and popularizing the action-drama genre. The original ‘angry young man’ was Amitabh Bachchan who, after a string of mediocre films, began his journey to superstardom with Prakash Mehra’s “Zanjeer” (1973), written by Salim-Javed.

When producer Zoya Akhtar, daughter of Javed Akhtar, set out to document their story, she knew it was a story that was long overdue. “I grew up with them, watching these films,” Akhtar told Variety. “There’s a generation that doesn’t know about them and there’s nobody else who’s managed to create this much noise, get this much attention, make this much impact and have this much influence in the industry, just pure writers.”