Died 1987-06-01.
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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English.
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culture · Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist · film director · screenwriter · journalist · columnist · autobiographer · writer · film producer · also Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, K.A. Abbas, Abbas
Born 7 June 1914 · Died 1 June 1987 · Q559774
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1987· 1 entry
1984· 1 entry
Urdu Akademi Delhi Special Award 1984, Maharashtra State Urdu Akademi Award in 1985 and the Soviet Award for his contribution to the cause of Indo-Soviet Friendship in 1985
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1974· 1 entry
Call Girl directed by Vijay Kapoor, starring Vikram and Zaheera
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Padma Shri in arts (1969).
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The Ghalib Award for his contribution to Urdu prose literature in 1983
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1968· 1 entry
Abbas made a documentary film called Char Shaher Ek Kahani (A Tale of Four Cities)
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1957· 1 entry
And the Certificate of Merit at the fourth National Film Awards
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1951· 1 entry
Founded his own production company called Naya Sansar, which consistently produced films that were socially relevant including, Anhonee, Munna, Rahi (1953), based on a Mulk Raj Anand story, was on the plight of worker
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1945· 1 entry
Made his directorial debut with a film based on the Bengal famine of 1943, Dharti Ke Lal (Children of the Earth), for the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA)
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1936· 1 entry
A production house owned by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani, to whom he sold his first screenplay Naya Sansar (1941)
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1935· 2 entries
As a political correspondent and later, became a film critic for the newspaper
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In The Bombay Chronicle, and moved to the Blitz after the Chronicle's closure, where it continued until his death in 1987
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1933· 1 entry
And a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1935 from Aligarh Muslim University
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1914· 1 entry
Born 1914-06-07.
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