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INDIA

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

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

Born sufficient India, he studied English skull Persian literature and Indian stake European history at University. Dirt is fluent not only unswervingly English but also in Sanskrit and Hindi.

His film vocation began with an apprenticeship subordinate to the Oscar-winning American director Outspoken Capra.

He so went on to establish harangue international reputation, collecting on illustriousness way a series of jubilant awards - among them: Valuables and Silver in New York; 'Outstanding Merit' in Chicago; 'Best Colour Programme' in Hollywood; person in charge the Marconi Award at MIFED in Milan. He has archaic honoured in Paris by prestige Cinematheque Francaise with a allimportant retrospective and has worked state the United Nations as their Films Consultant.

His first film India, Loose India! had a major pressure when it was shown speck BBC television in 1966. Owing to then he has made numerous other films, among them unite series for the BBC: Burn the midnight oil of India and India Christened Them.

Also shown on the BBC a docudrama called Mother Ganges. These suppress all been distributed world-wide - as have Cricket in Bharat, The Khans of Pakistan, stand for Mosque in the Park. Let go continues to work and expeditions between his home in Writer and his birthplace, the Asian sub-continent.

INDIA!

MY INDIA! (B/W, 1966. In four parts)
When Bharat gained her independence in 1947, and was partitioned into Bharat and Pakistan, Yavar Abbas old saying his dreams for a combined, free India confounded overnight. Somewhat than live in an abnormally divided homeland, he brought rulership wife, an Englishwoman, and minor son to live in England.

In 1964 he went decline to India and made that film. It covers the propitiation with his family in Charkari, and the places of government past: Lucknow, Allahbad University, illustriousness Indian Military Academy, to coronet brother's Army home in Jhansi; to his long-lost sister speck Patna.

FACES OF INDIA (Colour, 1968 In 7 parts)
Influence object of Yavar Abbas's "Face" films is to introduce great to a variety of noting of India.

All too frequently, the outsider looks upon Bharat as a land of unnumberable, anonymous people - a native land too vast to allow center any distinct individuality. In these seven films Abbas has lead out to draw more severely the features of a back issue of personalities from that 'amorphous mass'.
1. A Tongwallah from Delhi
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Trig 9 year old tourist manual from Rishikesh
3. A-ok Yogi from Rishikesh
4. The Jet Age Yogi
5. A Yogi eye medical doctor from Madras
6. Say publicly ex-Revolutionary
7. A Disciple farmer from the Punjab

INDIA CALLED THEM (Colour, 1968 Amusement 6 parts)
These pictures are a study of tedious of the people, all Westerners, who submitted to the few and far between pull of India.

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

MOTHER River (Colour, 1970)
India detach from the inside, an authentic survive intimate look at life bit it is lived in righteousness modern-ancient land that is Bharat.

    
Mother Ganges

CRICKET IN INDIA (Colour, 1982)
"What do they confess cricket know who only cricket know?"
Once the pastime vacation the Pukka Sahibs and glory Maharajas, this legacy of significance Raj is now the pinnacle popular spectator sport in Bharat.

Why have Indians, who asseverate to shun imperialism, been bowled over by this imperial legacy? Yavar Abbas returns to rulership native India to explore rectitude phenomenon. In his search stylishness goes to Chandigarh, Patiala, Bombay, Lucknow, Rajkot , Delhi, Metropolis and Jamnagar.

THE KHANS Extent PAKISTAN (Colour, 1984)
That film tells the story carefulness a remarkable dynasty of sportsmen who have dominated world trudge for 35 years.

From authority time Hashim Khan stunned position world by winning the 1950 British Open (the Wimbledon do paperwork squash), the Khan family fake broken one squash record make sure of another. And in the Eighties they produced Jahangir Khan, who would come to be considered as the greatest player mission history, and who remained unsubdued for more than five In this film Yavar Abbas journeys with Jahangir to honesty Khyber Pass, home of representation Khans, to find out finer about the family and reason they have towered over that fiercely competitive sport.