06-16-2008, 07:30 AM
quite a lot of story and screenplay writers were from the 'Progressive Writers' Movement'.
According to wiki , this movement was set up in London in 1935.
SOme of the famous film personalities of this group include Sahir Ludhianavi, Kaifi Azmi, rajinder Singh Bedi, majrooh Sultanpuri, Ishmat Chugtai, etc.
some of the films that rajinder singh bedi was associated with can be found here. Rjat Bedi's son is Narendra Bedi
Ishmat Chugtai here.
majrooh sultanpuri's mini biography at imdb says that
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He was a serious poet who made significant contributions to the development of a sensibility and an idiom, that was truly inspired by the Progressive Writers Movement. In the early years after partition the poets felt hugely hemmed in by the their lack of reaching out to the people they were supposed to be addressing. Though they had a steady audience, it was very tiny compared to that enjoyed by popular media including that of the cinema. It was decided by a few poets and literary organisations to ride on the back of a popular medium to exploit the greater outreach of the cinema, and as it were, to spread the message. <b>Pardeep, Sahir Ludhianvi, Qamar Jalalabadi, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Shakeel Badayuni, Saghar Nizami, Rajinder Krishen and Majrooh Sultanpuri</b>, were all sucked into the insatiable vortex of the film world with Sahir having remained the most outstanding but Majrooh Sultanpuri being a close second.
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According to wiki , this movement was set up in London in 1935.
SOme of the famous film personalities of this group include Sahir Ludhianavi, Kaifi Azmi, rajinder Singh Bedi, majrooh Sultanpuri, Ishmat Chugtai, etc.
some of the films that rajinder singh bedi was associated with can be found here. Rjat Bedi's son is Narendra Bedi
Ishmat Chugtai here.
majrooh sultanpuri's mini biography at imdb says that
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He was a serious poet who made significant contributions to the development of a sensibility and an idiom, that was truly inspired by the Progressive Writers Movement. In the early years after partition the poets felt hugely hemmed in by the their lack of reaching out to the people they were supposed to be addressing. Though they had a steady audience, it was very tiny compared to that enjoyed by popular media including that of the cinema. It was decided by a few poets and literary organisations to ride on the back of a popular medium to exploit the greater outreach of the cinema, and as it were, to spread the message. <b>Pardeep, Sahir Ludhianvi, Qamar Jalalabadi, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Shakeel Badayuni, Saghar Nizami, Rajinder Krishen and Majrooh Sultanpuri</b>, were all sucked into the insatiable vortex of the film world with Sahir having remained the most outstanding but Majrooh Sultanpuri being a close second.
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