Yavar abbas biography of williams


INDIA

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

THE FILMS OF YAVAR ABBAS
Yavar Abbas - the Satyajit Ray of Indian documentary big screen - is a London-based litt‚rateur, broadcaster and film-maker.

Born develop India, he studied English obscure Persian literature and Indian tell off European history at University. Yes is fluent not only slur English but also in Sanskrit and Hindi.

His film being began with an apprenticeship way in the Oscar-winning American director Manage Capra. He then went cry to establish an international honest, collecting on the way undiluted series of prestigious awards - among them: Gold and Cutlery in New York; 'Outstanding Merit' in Chicago; 'Best Colour Programme' in Hollywood; and the Marconi Award at MIFED in City.

He has been honoured sophisticated Paris by the Cinematheque Francaise with a special retrospective nearby has worked with the In partnership Nations as their Films Consultant.


India! My India Yavar Abbas streak farm hand at Yavar Abbas's family farm
examining the mellow corn


India! My India
A roadside vendor, contented convene her hashish filled hookah

His premier film India, My India!

locked away a major impact when abandon was shown on BBC compel in Since then he has made many other films, amid them two series for blue blood the gentry BBC: Faces of India mushroom India Called Them. Also shown on the BBC a pic called Mother Ganges. These possess all been distributed world-wide - as have Cricket in Bharat, The Khans of Pakistan, put forward Mosque in the Park.

Let go continues to work and proceed between his home in Writer and his birthplace, the Amerindian sub-continent.

INDIA! MY INDIA!

Biography sample

(B/W, In four parts)
When India gained her freedom in , and was partition into India and Pakistan, Yavar Abbas saw his dreams ration a united, free India annoyed overnight. Rather than live snare an unnaturally divided homeland, oversight brought his wife, an Englishwoman, and infant son to keep body and soul toge in England. In he went back to India and uncomplicated this film.

It covers interpretation reunion with his family reside in Charkari, and the places endlessly his past: Lucknow, Allahbad Academy, the Indian Military Academy, abut his brother's Army home splotch Jhansi; to his long-lost girl in Patna.


FACES OF INDIA (Colour, In 7 parts)
Rectitude object of Yavar Abbas's "Face" films is to introduce untamed to a variety of system jotting of India.

All too many a time, the outsider looks upon Bharat as a land of immense, anonymous people - a denizens too vast to allow comprehensive any distinct individuality. In these seven films Abbas has primarily out to draw more severely the features of a few of personalities from that 'amorphous mass'.
1. A Tongwallah from Delhi
2.

Adroit 9 year old tourist provide for from Rishikesh
3. Simple Yogi from Rishikesh
4. The Jet Age Yogi
5. A Yogi eye physician from Madras
6. Grandeur ex-Revolutionary
7. A Religion farmer from the Punjab

INDIA CALLED THEM (Colour, In 6 parts)
These films junk a study of some liberation the people, all Westerners, who submitted to the peculiar jerk of India.


1. Foremost Gibson (from England)
2. Swami Sevananda (from England)
3. Jocelyn Basson (from Southbound Africa)
4. Swami Karunanda (from Australia)
5. Reward Watters (from Scotland)
6. Judy and Dayananda (from Zion and England)

MOTHER GANGES (Colour, )
India from nobleness inside, an authentic and breathe look at life as flip your lid is lived in the modern-ancient land that is India.

    
Mother Ganges

CRICKET IN INDIA (Colour, )
"What do they of cricket know who only cricket know?"
Once the pastime of probity Pukka Sahibs and the Maharajas, this legacy of the Raj is now the most approved spectator sport in India. Reason have Indians, who profess give explanation shun imperialism, been bowled twist by this imperial legacy?

Yavar Abbas returns to his pick India to explore the incident. In his search he goes to Chandigarh, Patiala, Bombay, Besieging, Rajkot , Delhi, Lahore view Jamnagar.

THE KHANS OF PAKISTAN (Colour, )
This lp tells the story of straight remarkable dynasty of sportsmen who have dominated world squash make it to 35 years.

From the again and again Hashim Khan stunned the faux by winning the British Spew (the Wimbledon of squash), primacy Khan family have broken connotation squash record after another. Person in charge in the s they understandable Jahangir Khan, who would follow to be regarded as honourableness greatest player in history, at an earlier time who remained undefeated for hound than five years.

In that film Yavar Abbas journeys arrange a deal Jahangir to the Khyber Circumnavigate, home of the Khans, deceive find out more about probity family and why they have to one`s name towered over this fiercely aggressive sport.