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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 ...
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......
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.
Jul 5, 2020 · K.A. Abbas’ grandfather Khwaja Gulam Abbas, a leading rebel of the 1857 War of Independence, was captured by the British, and became the first martyr of Panipat when his captors executed him from a cannon’s mouth. In Syeda Apa’s WhatsApp group, someone posts an essay by Anwar Abbas.
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.
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (June 7, 1914 – June 1, 1987) was an Indian film director and producer, novelist, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer and playwright. In a career spanning over half a century, Abbas emerged on the Indian and global scene as a communicator of great repute.
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.
