Mumbai, March 17 Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan, who was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai last month after suffering a brain hemorrhage, was discharged on Tuesday and taken home, sources said.
The 90-year-old, one half of the celebrated Salim-Javed duo, which wrote films such as "Sholay", "Deewar", and "Don" with Javed Akhtar, was admitted to the ICU of Lilavati Hospital in Bandra on February 17.
A day after his admission, doctors at the hospital said Khan had suffered a brain hemorrhage, which had been treated, and he was put on ventilator support as a precaution.
"He has been successfully treated. He was discharged from the hospital a while ago," a source told
Earlier in the morning, Salman Khan, Salim Khan's son and superstar, arrived at the hospital.
His other children, including son Arbaaz Khan, daughters Alvira and Arpita, and sons-in-law Atul Agnihotri and Aayush Sharma, had also visited him regularly in the hospital. His longtime partner Akhtar had also visited him.
Besides "Sholay", "Deewar", and "Don", Khan and Akhtar also wrote "Trishul", "Zanjeer", "Seeta Aur Geeta", "Haathi Mere Saathi", "Yaadon Ki Baarat", and "Mr India".
Coming from a wealthy family in Indore, Salim Khan arrived in Mumbai in his 20s with dreams of stardom. He was good-looking and confident that he would make a mark in the industry as an actor, but that did not happen.
After struggling for close to a decade and getting limited roles in films, he changed his career path.
He worked as an assistant to Abrar Alvi and soon met Akhtar to form one of Hindi cinema's most formidable writing partnerships. They worked together on two dozen movies, with most of them achieving blockbuster status.