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Filmmaker · India

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

Died in 1987

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was born on 7 June 1914 in Panipat; his maternal great-grandfather was the Urdu poet Altaf Hussain Hali. After taking a degree in English literature and in law at Aligarh University, he became a journalist and from 1935 until his death wrote a weekly column, first in the Bombay Chronicle and then in Blitz, one of the longest-running in the Indian press. A novelist, screenwriter for Raj Kapoor and director, he wrote seventy-four books, received the Padma Shri in 1969 and died in Bombay on 1 June 1987.

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