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Wajahat Mirza - Wikipedia

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Wajahat Mirza

Born	20 April 1908 (1908-04-20) Sitapur, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India
Died	4 August 1990(1990-08-04) (aged 82) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation(s)	Dialogue writer, screenwriter, story writer, film director
Years active	1933 – 1980
Awards	Filmfare Best Dialogue Award (1960) Filmfare Best Dialogue Award (1961)

Wajahat Hussain Mirza Changezi (Hindi: वजाहत मिर्ज़ा; 20 April 1908 – 4 August 1990) was an Indian screenwriter and film director who penned the dialogues of some of the most successful films in India during the 1950s and 1960s, best known for Mughal-e-Azam (1960) and the Academy Award nominee, Mother India (1957).^[1]^[2]

Awards

Mirza won Filmfare Best Dialogue Award twice, in 1960 for Mughal-e-Azam,^[1]^[3] and in 1961 for Ganga Jamuna.^[3]

He also won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for Ganga Jamuna.

Early life and career

He was born in Islampur, a small town 89 kilometers from Lucknow. While studying at Government Jubilee Inter College, Lucknow, Mirza became acquainted with cinematographer Krishan Gopal of Calcutta, and worked as his assistant. He later co-produced with singer Midgan Kumar a movie called Anokhi Mohabbat ("Crazy Love") in Bombay. He also directed the 1945 hit film Prabhu Ka Ghar starring Khursheed Bano, Trilok Kapoor and Sulochana Chatterjee. Mirza later became a dialogue and screenplay writer and was also one of the first Indians to be nominated for an Oscar for the movie Mother India (1957), based upon a story by Babubhai Mehta.^[4]

Filmography

As director

1942 - Swaminath
1942 - Jawani
1944 - Shahenshah Babar
1945 - Prabhu Ka Ghar
1950 - Nishana

As writer

1933 - Yahudi Ki Ladki (dialogue writer)
1934 - Anokhi Mohabbat (dialogue & screenplay)
1938 - Hum Tum Aur Woh (dialogue writer, lyrics)
1938 - Teen Sau Din Ke Baad (dialogue writer)^[2]
1938 - Watan (dialogue & screenplay)^[2]
1939 - Ek Hi Raasta (dialogue writer)
1940 - Aurat (dialogue writer)
1941 - Bahen (dialogue & screenplay)
1942 - Roti (dialogue writer)
1944 - Lal Haveli (dialogue writer)
1944 - Shahenshah Babar (director/dialogue writer)^[2]
1945 - Prabhu Ka Ghar (director/dialogue writer)^[2]
1945 - Zeenat (dialogue & story)
1948 - Shaheed (dialogue writer)
1949 - Chilman (dialogue & screenplay)
1953 - Shikast (dialogue & story)
1956 - Aawaz (dialogue writer)
1957 - Mother India (dialogue writer)^[2]^[5]
1958 - Yahudi (dialogue writer)
1960 - Kohinoor (dialogue writer)
1960 - Mughal-E-Azam (dialogue writer)^[2]^[3]^[5]
1961 - Gunga Jumna (Ganga Jamna) (dialogue writer)^[2]^[3]^[5]
1964 - Leader (dialogue writer)^[6]^[5]
1967 - Palki (dialogue writer)
1969 - Chanda Aur Bijli (dialogue writer)
1969 - Shatranj (dialogue writer)
1970 - Umang (dialogue writer)
1972 - Yeh Gulistan Hamara (dialogue & screenplay)
1973 - Heera (dialogue & screenplay)
1974 - Dukh Sukh (dialogue writer)
1978 - Daaku Aur Jawan (dialogue writer)
1978 - Ganga Ki Saugandh (dialogue writer)
1986 - Love And God (dialogue writer)^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Nasreen Munni Kabiri (31 July 2010). "Where every line was a piece of poetry (written by Wajahat Mirza and others)". Times of India newspaper. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Wajahat Mirza filmography". Upperstall.com website. Archived from the original on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Filmfare Awards for Wajahat Mirza (scroll down to read under year 1960 and 1961)" (PDF). Googlepages.com website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Chatterjee 2002, p. 12.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Wajahat Mirza filmography as a dialogue writer". BollywoodHungama.com website. Archived from the original on 1 September 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Mahaan, Deepak (24 June 2010). "Leader (1964) - film review (Wajahat Mirza as dialogue writer)". The Hindu newspaper. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

Bibliography

Chatterjee, Gayatri (2002). Mother India. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-0-85170-917-8.

External links

v t e Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue
1959–1970	Rajinder Singh Bedi (1959) Ramanand Sagar (1960) Amanullah Khan, Kamal Amrohi, Wajahat Mirza & Ehsan Rizvi (1961) Wajahat Mirza (1962) Akhtar ul Iman (1963) Arjun Dev Rashk (1964) Govind Moonis (1965) Akhtar ul Iman (1966) Vijay Anand (1967) Manoj Kumar (1968) Ali Raza (1969) Pt Anand Kumar (1970)
1971–1990	Rajinder Singh Bedi (1971) Gulzar (1972) Ramesh Pant (1973) Gulzar (1974) Kaifi Azmi (1975) Salim-Javed (1976) Sagar Sarhadi (1977) Vrajendra Gaur (1978) Rahi Masoom Raza (1979) Satyadev Dubey (1980) Shabd Kumar (1981) Kader Khan (1982) Dr. Achla Nagar (1983) Mahesh Bhatt (1984) Sai Paranjpye (1985) Rahi Masoom Raza (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Kamlesh Pandey (1989) Javed Akhtar (1990)
1991–2010	Suraj Sanim (1991 ) Rahi Masoom Raza (1992) Kader Khan (1993) Prof Jay Dixit (1994) K K Singh (1995) Aditya Chopra & Javed Siddiqui (1996) Gulzar (1997) Aditya Chopra (1998) Rajkumar Santoshi & K. K. Raina (1999) Hriday Lani & Pathik Vats (2000) O. P. Dutta (2001) Karan Johar (2002) Gulzar & Jaideep Sahni (2003) Abbas Tyrewala (2004) Aditya Chopra (2005) Prakash Jha (2006) Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijat Joshi (2007) Imtiaz Ali (2008) Manu Rishi (2009) Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi (2010)
2011–present	Habib Faisal (2011) Farhan Akhtar (2012) Anurag Kashyap, Zeishan Quadri, Akhilesh Jaiswal & Sachin Ladia (2013) Subhash Kapoor (2014) Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani (2015) Himanshu Sharma (2016) Ritesh Shah (2017) Hitesh Kewaliya (2018) Akshat Ghildial (2019) Vijay Maurya (2020) Juhi Chaturvedi (2021)

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