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Abrar Alvi (1 July 1927 – 18 November 2009) was an Indian film writer, director and actor. Most of his notable work was done in the 1950s and 1960s with Guru Dutt . He wrote some of the most respected works of Indian cinema, including Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) and Pyaasa (1957), which have an avid following the ...
Abrar Alvi was born on 1 July 1927 in Ayodhya, India. He was a writer and actor, known for Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966) and Professor (1962). He died on 18 November 2009 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
- Writer, Actor, Director
- July 1, 1927
- Abrar Alvi
- November 18, 2009
An edited collection of excerpts from the Channel 4 documentary In Search of Guru Dutt of the Movie Mahal series. In this video screenwriter Abrar Alvi talks...
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Mini Bio. Abrar Alvi was born on July 1, 1927 in Ayodhya, India. He was a writer and actor, known for Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966) and Professor (1962). He died on November 18, 2009 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Abrar Alvi was credited as screenplay and dialogue writer for the first time for Guru Dutt’s Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), but the film flopped at the box office. Under the same banner, Abrar Alvi also wrote the script and dialogues for Guru Dutt’s film adaptation of Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), based on Bimal Mitra’s eponymous novel.
In Ten Years with Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi's Journey, Sathya Saran looks at the tumultuous yet incredibly fecund relationship between the mercurial director and his equally talented albeit unsung writer, a partnership that evolved over a decade till Guru Dutt's tragic death in 1964.
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Summary. Ten Years with Guru Dutt is a biography of the filmmaker Guru Dutt that is based on journalist Sathya Saran's conversations with the screenwriter Abrar Alvi. The book has 23 chapters, whose titles are taken from well-known lines in Dutt's films' songs. The book is in first-person narrative and is interspersed with Saran's commentary.
