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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 world ...
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
In this video screenwriter Abrar Alvi talks... An edited collection of excerpts from the Channel 4 documentary In Search of Guru Dutt of the Movie Mahal series.
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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.
- July 1, 1927
- November 18, 2009
Nov 18, 2019 · Often reduced to being Guru Dutt's right-hand man, Abrar Alvi was a visionary writer of plays, screenplays and dialogues — and a director.
- Fiza Jha
Abrar Alvi undertook a great deal of research for the script of the iconic Pyaasa (1957). The character played by Waheeda Rehman , Gulabo, was based on the daughter of a Gujarati temple priest who ran away from her family after her lover abandoned her and became a sex worker.
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Whenever Guru Dutt’s name is discussed, another name automatically comes to mind and that name is of writer-director Abrar Alvi who was not only his close friend and preferred story-screenplay-dialogue writer, but he had also directed ‘Guru Dutt Films’ hit Film Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam.
