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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English. He won four National Film Awards in India. Internationally, his films won the Palme d'Or ( Golden Palm Grand Prize) at Cannes Film Festival (out of three Palme d'Or nominations) and the Crystal Globe ...
Producer, director, and writer of Indian cinema. Born on 7 June 1914 in Panipat, he graduated with a degree in literature. He was the author of about twenty books, some of which have been translated into various languages, and was a founding member of the Progressive Writers' Association.
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas: The Writer, Thinker, Dreamer. K.A. Abbas' creative oeuvre consists of over 74 books, 100 short stories, 3000 newspaper columns in Urdu, Hindi and English and 45 films......
Jun 7, 2020 · A versatile and progressive writer, socialist, film critic and filmmaker — Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was so much more than the man who wrote Raj Kapoor’s best movies or gave Amitabh Bachchan his break. Before he turned to films, K.A. Abbas was a novelist, short-story writer, playwright and a columnist.
As family members and friends converge on a WhatsApp group to commemorate Khwaja Ahmad Abbas in June, the month of the acclaimed the writer and film director’s birth and death, a beloved nephew...
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May 9, 2016 · 08 May 2016, 11:35 pm. In October 1939, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas penned an open letter to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who had commented some years previously on cinema being a "sinful technology". Abbas' letter argued with Gandhi to reconsider the potential of the medium.
In the 73 years that Khwaja Ahmad Abbas lived, he wrote more than 74 books; as a journalist he produced the longest running column in the history of journalism. Besides screenplays and dialogues for popular films, he also wrote plays.
The 1964 National Film Award winner Shehar Aur Sapna, like many of Abbas's films, deals with contemporary realities in its exploration of Bombay and its dwellers.
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English.
