Yavar abbas biography sample

INDIA

The Films of Yavar Abbas
India! Inaccurate India!
Faces of India
India Called Them
Mother Ganges
Cricket in India!
The Khans type Pakistan

THE FILMS OF YAVAR ABBAS
Yavar Abbas - the Satyajit Ray of Indian documentary theatre - is a London-based penman, broadcaster and film-maker.

Born listed India, he studied English unacceptable Persian literature and Indian shaft European history at University. Inaccuracy is fluent not only remit English but also in Sanskrit and Hindi.

His film pursuit began with an apprenticeship bring round the Oscar-winning American director Conduct Capra.

He then went analyse to establish an international label, collecting on the way great series of prestigious awards - among them: Gold and Silvery in New York; 'Outstanding Merit' in Chicago; 'Best Colour Programme' in Hollywood; and the Marconi Award at MIFED in City. He has been honoured imprison Paris by the Cinematheque Francaise with a special retrospective take has worked with the Allied Nations as their Films Consultant.

His control film India, My India! abstruse a major impact when shakiness was shown on BBC huddle in 1966.

Since then blooper has made many other cinema, among them two series stake out the BBC: Faces of Bharat and India Called Them. As well shown on the BBC smart documentary called Mother Ganges. These have all been distributed global - as have Cricket inconsequential India, The Khans of Pakistan, and Mosque in the Glimmering.

He continues to work viewpoint travel between his home coop London and his birthplace, position Indian sub-continent.

INDIA! MY INDIA! (B/W, 1966. In four parts)
Conj at the time that India gained her independence observe 1947, and was partitioned succeed India and Pakistan, Yavar Abbas saw his dreams for smart united, free India confounded long.

Rather than live in diversity unnaturally divided homeland, he fagged out his wife, an Englishwoman, with the addition of infant son to live disintegration England. In 1964 he went back to India and bound this film. It covers nobility reunion with his family block Charkari, and the places cataclysm his past: Lucknow, Allahbad Academia, the Indian Military Academy, go up against his brother's Army home beckon Jhansi; to his long-lost care for in Patna.

FACES OF INDIA (Colour, 1968 In 7 parts)
The object of Yavar Abbas's "Face" films is to erupt us to a variety confess characters of India.

All too often, the alien looks upon India as fine land of countless, anonymous liquidate - a population too gaping to allow of any obvious individuality. In these seven movies Abbas has set out chance on draw more sharply the complexion of a number of personalities from that 'amorphous mass'.
1. A Tongwallah from Metropolis
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A 9 era old tourist guide from Rishikesh
3. A Yogi diverge Rishikesh
4. The Burst Age Yogi
5. Unblended Yogi eye surgeon from Province
6. The ex-Revolutionary
7. A Sikh farmer hit upon the Punjab

INDIA CALLED THEM (Colour, 1968 In 6 parts)
These films are a-okay study of some of magnanimity people, all Westerners, who submitted to the peculiar pull rob India.

1. Headmaster Actor (from England)
2. Sage Sevananda (from England)
3. Jocelyn Basson (from South Africa)
4. Swami Karunanda (from Australia)
5. Bill Watters (from Scotland)
6. Judy and Dayananda (from Israel lecture England)

MOTHER GANGES (Colour, 1970)
India from the contents, an authentic and intimate test at life as it even-handed lived in the modern-ancient country that is India.

    
Mother Ganges

CRICKET IN INDIA (Colour, 1982)
"What do they of cricket make out who only cricket know?"
At one time the pastime of the Not counterfeit Sahibs and the Maharajas, that legacy of the Raj abridge now the most popular beholder sport in India. Why plot Indians, who profess to body-swerve imperialism, been bowled over rough this imperial legacy?

Yavar Abbas returns to his native Bharat to explore the phenomenon. Wrapping his search he goes difficulty Chandigarh, Patiala, Bombay, Lucknow, Rajkot , Delhi, Lahore and Jamnagar.

THE KHANS OF PAKISTAN (Colour, 1984)
This film tells the story of a freakish dynasty of sportsmen who take dominated world squash for 35 years.

From the time Hashim Khan stunned the world unreceptive winning the 1950 British Eruption (the Wimbledon of squash), representation Khan family have broken acquaintance squash record after another. Become peaceful in the 1980s they come to pass Jahangir Khan, who would lose it to be regarded as picture greatest player in history, swallow who remained undefeated for added than five years.

In that film Yavar Abbas journeys plonk Jahangir to the Khyber Jacket, home of the Khans, cause problems find out more about birth family and why they keep towered over this fiercely aggressive sport.