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- Producer, director, and writer of Indian cinema. Born on 7 June 1914 in Panipat, he graduated with a degree in literature. He was the author of about twenty books, some of which have been translated into various languages, and was a founding member of the Progressive Writers' Association. From 1938 onward, he traveled widely outside of India. In 1951, as a member of an Indian delegation, he went to China on an academic junket. In 1954-55, he visited various countries of Western and Eastern Europe (Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, Poland, USSR). He was the owner of the film production and distribution company Naya Sansar in Bombay. Abbas wrote several films (Naya Sansar, Nai Kahani, Nai Duniya, Panna, etc.) before expanding his work into producing and directing.
- IMDb mini biography by: <jumblejim@prodigy.net> Jim Beaver
- Educated at Aligarh Muslim University. Formerly a journalist and film critic for Bombay Chronicle.
- In 1969, he gave a newcomer by the name of Amitabh Bachchan a break for his new movie Saat Hindustani (1969).
- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1966
- Grandneice of actress Neelima Azim. Neelima mother name was Khadija Azim, She had famous poets in her family. She belongs to the family of KA Abbas. Neelima father Anwar Azim, was a prominent journalist and Urdu author.
- Great grandnephew is actor Shahid Kapoor. ( Neelima's son).
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