I had read Abbas's story Sardarji and it was a great story and it remained with me always. I knew a few things Abbas here and there. This book gave a more complete and details profile of the author.
I liked Abbas's autobiography. It gave good insight about the man, his thinking and his life events. K A Abbas's great-grand father was famous muslim reformist/poet Hali. Abbas himself was a hard-core nationalist muslim who had a very close/interesting relationship with Nehru.
Most of the book is enga
I had read Abbas's story Sardarji and it was a great story and it remained with me always. I knew a few things Abbas here and there. This book gave a more complete and details profile of the author.
I liked Abbas's autobiography. It gave good insight about the man, his thinking and his life events. K A Abbas's great-grand father was famous muslim reformist/poet Hali. Abbas himself was a hard-core nationalist muslim who had a very close/interesting relationship with Nehru.
Most of the book is engaging and interesting. However there are occasional passages which delve too much into the nitty-gritty of his films. As a whole, book is recommended to anyone interested in things like national integration, hindu-muslim relations, partition, india's politics during the 30's and 40's and during the Nehru's reign as 1st prime minister of India.
Abbas had a versatile life as a journalist,political activist, literary and film writer and a film maker.
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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (Hindi: खवाजा अहमद अबबास) (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987), popularly known as K. A. Abbas, was an Indian film director, novelist, screenwriter, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi and English languages. He was the maker of important Hindi films such as Saat Hindustani (1969) and Do Boond Pani (1972), both of which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film on National Integra
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (Hindi: ख़्वाजा अहमद अब्बास) (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987), popularly known as K. A. Abbas, was an Indian film director, novelist, screenwriter, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi and English languages. He was the maker of important Hindi films such as Saat Hindustani (1969) and Do Boond Pani (1972), both of which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration, Palme d'Or nominated (Cannes Film Festival) Pardesi (1957) and Shehar Aur Sapna (1963), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.
As a screenwriter, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas is considered one of pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realistic cinema, having penned films like the Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Neecha Nagar (1946), Jagte Raho, Dharti Ke Lal, Awara, Saat Hindustani and Naya Sansar. Apart from this, he wrote the best of Raj Kapoor films, Awaara, Shri 420, Mera Naam Joker, Bobby and Henna.[1]
His column ‘Last Page’, holds the distinction of being one of the longest-running columns in the history of Indian journalism. The column began in 1935, in Bombay Chronicle, and moved to the Blitz after the Chronicle's closure, where it continued until his death in 1987.[2] He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1969, by Government of India.
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