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FILM DIRECTOR

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

1914 - 1987

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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 at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas has received more than 604,213 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Khwaja Ahmad Abbas is the 1,326th most popular film director (down from 1,043rd in 2019), the 694th most popular biography from India (down from 535th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas ranks 1,326 out of 1,581Before him are Sam Simon, Howard Zieff, Takashi Shimizu, Paweł Edelman, Victor Schertzinger, and Carlo Vanzina. After him are Peter Chelsom, Lev Arnshtam, Sally Menke, René Vautier, Alan Bridges, and Chris Menges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas ranks 336Before him are Louis Gabrillargues, John Hodiak, Erich Herrmann, Mark Kac, Max Stiepl, and George Bruns. After him are Yuri Linnik, Grete Mostny, Geoffrey Unsworth, Hanna Neumann, Bob Gerard, and Ward Kimball. Among people deceased in 1987, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas ranks 213Before him are Julien Darui, Marcos Calderón, Vincent Persichetti, Georges Buchard, Marc Aaronson, and Musa Gareyev. After him are Antonio Janni, Rudolf Krause, Priscilla Dean, József Kovács, Madge Kennedy, and Joan Greenwood.

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In India

Among people born in India, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas ranks 694 out of 1,493Before him are Balasaraswati (1918), Romila Thapar (1931), Kanu Sanyal (1928), Reita Faria (1943), Ravi Zacharias (1946), and Bappi Lahiri (1952). After him are Javed Akhtar (1945), Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919), V. K. Sasikala (1954), Kaifi Azmi (1919), Nirupa Roy (1931), and Udham Singh (1928).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas ranks 12Before him are Dara Singh (1928), Ismail Merchant (1936), Ardeshir Irani (1886), Guru Dutt (1925), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), and Tarsem Singh (1961). After him are Tapan Sinha (1924), Shyam Benegal (1934), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), V. Shantaram (1901), Deepa Mehta (1950), and Subhash Ghai (1945).

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