Javed's children from his first marriage to Honey Irani are Farhan Akhtar, and Zoya Akhtar, who are also very close to Shabana. Shabana has been candid about her experience of not having children of her own in previous interviews; she handled this subject with incredible bravery and honesty.

Their wonderful connection, which they still maintain even after 40 years of marriage, is not the only reason for this; it's also because they are outspoken about social and political issues. Since Akhtar was married and had two children at the time, Farhan and Zoya, Azmi's affair with the artist caused quite a stir at first, even though both of their families were artistic and adhered to Communist ideology.

The team most known as Salim-Javed, wrote the scripts for several successful films. Among them were Don, Sholay, Zanjeer, and Deewar, to mention a few. Shabana discussed their split in a recent interview, admitting that she still doesn't know why they broke up.