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{{short description|Indian actress and screenwriter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
{{BLP sources|date=February 2013}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Honey Irani
| image = Honey Irani.jpg
| caption = Honey Irani in 2018
| pseudonym =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|08|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bombay]], [[Bombay State]], [[India]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Actress, screenwriter
| nationality = Indian
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Javed Akhtar]]|1972|1985|reason=divorced}}
| children = [[Zoya Akhtar]] <br/> [[Farhan Akhtar]]
| relatives = [[Daisy Irani (actress)|Daisy Irani]] (sister)
| imagesize =
}}

'''Honey Irani''' (born 25 August 1954) is an Indian film actress and [[screenwriter]], who works in [[Hindi cinema]]. She started her career as a [[child actor]] with roles in films such as Mahesh Kaul’s Pyar ki Pyas. It is said that Mr.Kaul kept her at his home so she would be comfortable during the film’s shooting. She was probably four to five years old when the shooting of the movies ''[[Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan]]'' and ''Bombay Ka Chor'' started.

==Background and personal life==
Irani met the script-writer and poet [[Javed Akhtar]] on the sets of [[Seeta Aur Geeta]]. They were married on 21 March 1972. Her career as a child star had already ended and his career as a script-writer had not yet properly begun. They had no place to live, and were given a room in the house of Irani's older married sister Menaka. Their daughter [[Zoya Akhtar]] was born in 1972 and their son [[Farhan Akhtar]] in 1974. Irani became a devoted home-maker, but the marriage ended in divorce after her husband became involved with the actress [[Shabana Azmi]] in the mid-1970s.<ref name=film>{{cite web|title=Shabana and I are not sahelis|url=http://www.filmfare.com/interviews/shabana-and-i-are-not-sahelis-751.html|publisher=Filmfare|date=2 July 2012|access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref> The couple separated in 1978 and divorced in 1985. While Akhtar married Shabana Azmi in 1984, Irani devoted herself to the care of her two young children, who were six years and four years old respectively in 1978. She even started doing embroidery on [[Sari|sarees]] as a way of earning money to support her children. Eventually, she managed to make a second career for herself as a writer of film scripts. Both of Irani's children (son [[Farhan Akhtar]] and daughter [[Zoya Akhtar]]) grew up to be successful filmmakers in the Hindi film industry.<ref>[http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20000619/cinema.html "Honey Irani – Sweet Taste of Success"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034434/http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20000619/cinema.html |date=24 September 2015 }}, india-today.com; accessed 1 December 2014.</ref>

Irani is the youngest of five siblings, others are Menka, Bunny, Sarosh, and [[Daisy Irani (actress)|Daisy Irani]]. Irani's oldest sister, Menaka, is married to the stunt film-maker Kamran Khan,<ref>{{cite web | title = 'I told Shah Rukh.. |newspaper= The Telegraph| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071007/asp/7days/story_8405201.asp|date=7 October 2007| access-date = 2013-12-17}}</ref> and is the mother of film-makers [[Sajid Khan (Director)|Sajid Khan]] and [[Farah Khan]]. Her other sister Daisy, who was also a famous child-star like herself,<ref name=hindu>{{cite news|title=Honey Irani... happy and sweet|author=Rana A. Siddiqui|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/05/22/stories/2003052200680200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030702095858/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/05/22/stories/2003052200680200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 July 2003|date=22 May 2003|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=16 December 2013}}</ref> was married (till his death) to screenwriter K.K. Shukla, and is the mother of three children.

==Career==
Honey Irani began her [[Bollywood]] career as a [[child actor|child actress]] with roles in films such as ''[[Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan]]'' and ''Bombay Ka Chor''. She has acted in over 72 films.

After her divorce, she started doing embroidery on sarees to support her family. Though she had been writing short stories all this while, she never shared them. She narrated the story idea of ''[[Aaina (1993 film)|Aaina]]'' (1993) to Pam Chopra, wife of Yash Chopra for a TV series, but he developed it into a film. Yash Chopra had also previously asked her to develop a story idea, which went on to become her debut as a screenwriter, ''[[Lamhe]]'' (1991), starring [[Sridevi]]. The film saw mediocre success, but she won the [[Filmfare Award for Best Story]] for the film and it paved her way for a successful career as screenwriter. She won the award again for ''[[Kya Kehna]]'' in 2002, besides winning [[Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay]] with Ravi Kapoor for the blockbuster ''[[Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai]]'' in 2001.<ref name=film/>

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable"
! Year !! Film !! Award !! Category !! Result
|-
| 1992 || ''[[Lamhe]]'' || Filmfare Award || [[Filmfare Award for Best Story]] || {{won}}
|-
|rowspan=3| 2001 || ''[[Kya Kehna]]'' || Filmfare Award || [[Filmfare Award for Best Story]] || {{won}}
|-
| ''[[Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai]]'' || Filmfare Award || [[Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay]] || {{won}}
|-
|}

==Partial filmography==

===Screenwriter===

* ''[[Krrish 3]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Har Pal]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Krrish]]'' (2006), screenplay
* ''[[Koi... Mil Gaya]]'' (2003), screenplay
* ''[[Armaan (2003 film)|Armaan]]'' (2003), screenplay and story
* ''[[Albela (2001 film)|Albela]]'' (2001)
* ''[[Kya Kehna]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai]]'' (2000), screenplay
* ''[[Laawaris (1999 film)|Laawaris]]'' (1999), screenplay and story
* ''[[Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai]]'' (1998), screenplay and story
* ''[[Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya]]'' (1997), story
* ''[[Suhaag (1994 film)|Suhaag]]'' (1994), screenplay
* ''[[Darr]]'' (1993), screenplay and story
* ''[[Aaina (1993 film)|Aaina]]'' (1993), screenplay and story (also assistant dialogue writer)
* ''[[Parampara (1993 film)]]'', screenplay and story
* ''[[Lamhe]]'' (1991), screenplay and story
* ''[[Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge]]''(Apparently the story of DDLJ was first narrated to the Chopras by Honey. Though Aditya Chopra ALONE is credited for this, she fell out with the Chopras over the lack of acknowledgement in the film. When Farhan Akhtar(Honey's Son) appeared on the show JEENA ISI KA NAAM HAI, a surprise guest was Uday Chopra with whom he had been childhood friends. It was supposedly a rapproachment gesture by the Chopras )

===Actor===
* ''[[Seeta Aur Geeta]]'' (1972), as Sheila
* ''[[Amar Prem]]'' (1971)
* ''[[Kati Patang]]'' (1970) as Manorama ("Munni")
* ''Chandi Ki Deewar'' (1964)
* ''Soorat Aur Seerat'' (1962)
* ''[[Amar Rahe Yeh Pyar]]'' (1961)
* ''[[Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan]]'' (1959)
* ''[[Qaidi No. 911]]'' (1959)
* ''Pyar ki Pyas'' (1961) as Geeta.
* ''Zameen Ke Taare'' (1960).
* ''[[Masoom (1960 film)|Masoom]]'' (1960).

===Director===
* ''[[Armaan (2003 film)|Armaan]]'' (2003)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0409790}}
{{FilmfareAwardBestStory}}
{{FilmfareAwardBestScreenplay}}

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