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Kamleshwar is a Scriptwriter Indian born on 6 january 1932

Kamleshwar

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Birth name Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena
Nationality Inde
Birth 6 january 1932
Death 27 january 2007 (at 75 years)
Awards Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Bhushan, Filmfare Awards

Kamleshwar (Hindi: कमलेश्वर; 6 janvier 1932 – 27 janvier 2007) was a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and scriptwriter for Hindi cinema and television. Among his most well-known work are the films Aandhi, Mausam, Chhoti Si Baat and Rang Birangi. He was awarded the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for his Hindi novel Kitne Pakistan (translated in English as Partitions), and also the Padma Bhushan in 2005.

Considered a part of the league of Hindi writers like Mohan Rakesh, Nirmal Verma and Bhisham Sahni, who left the old pre-independence, literary preoccupations and presented the new sensibilities, that reflected new moorings of a post-independence India, thus launching, the Hindi literature's Nayi Kahani ("New Story") movement in the 1950s,

Biography

Early life and education
Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena was born in the Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh, India, where he spent his early years. Kamleshwar's first story, "Comrade", was published in 1948.

Later he did his graduation and followed by a Master's degree in Hindi literature from Allahabad University. His first novel, Badnam Gali (Cursed Lane), was published while he was still a student, he later started his literary career in Allahabad itself.


Career
In his early days, he worked as a proof reader, growing up to become, the editor of 'Vihan', literary magazine in late 1950s. This was followed by editorship of many Hindi magazines, like 'Nayi Kahaniyan' (1963–66), 'Sarika' (1967–78), 'Katha Yatra' (1978–79), 'Ganga' (1984–88) and weeklies, 'lngit' (1961–63) and 'Shree Varsha' (1979–80), besides this, he also remained the editor of Hindi dailies, 'Dainik Jagaran' (1990–1992), and 'Dainik Bhaskar' (1996–2002), and helped revive the Hindi magazine, 'Sarika', as its editor by bringing focus on new and emerging voices of modern India, an effort which reflected his encouragement to Marathi Dalit writers and Bohra Muslim litterateurs, thus opening new vistas for Hindi readers.







...once upon a time, trees provided shelter from the sun and the wind to human homes. Now, the trees have become used to growing in the shadows of tall concrete buildings.




—Kamleshwar, Kitne Pakistan


Kamleshwar became famous for his short stories, and some other works, which depicted the contemporary life in a vivid style of presentation. With the publication of his story, 'Raja Nirbansiya' (1957), he was immediately placed in league of leading writers of his times. In his prolific career, spanning four decades, he wrote over three hundred stories, including, "Maans Ka Dariya", "Neeli Jheel" and "Kasbe Ka Aadmi", published over ten collections of short stories, ten novels most prominent among them being, Ek Sadak Sattawan Galiyan, Laute Huye Musafir, Kaali Aandhi, Aagami Ateet, Registan and Kitne Pakistan, apart from 35 other literary works in different genres ranging from literary criticism, travelogue, memoirs, to socio-cultural commentary.


Films
He move to Bombay in the 1970s and started writing scripts and dialogues for Hindi films, in the next decade or so, he worked for over 75 feature films, which include films like Gulzar's Aandhi, based on his novel Kaali Aandhi, Mausam; Basu Chatterjee's Rajnigandha, Chhoti Si Baat, Rang Birangi and Ravi Chopra's triller, The Burning Train. In fact, reminiscing his works noted poet-director, Gulzar said that "in 'Kitne Pakistan'... there is a description where a handkerchief falls off the bridge; I always used to tell him that I could write a complete short story on this one line only.".


Television
By late 1970s, he had made his first short TV film the “Jamuna Bazar”, near river Yamuna in Delhi, and soon switched to television scriptwriting, and eventually became the 'Additional Director General' of Doordarshan, India's national television channel, (1980–82), during his tenure, in a matter of 24 months, the entire nation was connected with television network.

Over the years, he wrote stories in ten TV serials including Chandrakanta, Aakash Ganga, Yug and Betal Pachisi, as well as popular serials based on literary works such as Darpan and Ek Kahani. He hosted a popular talk show on Doordarshan, Parikrama, started a weekly literary show, Patrika, and also produced and directed several television programs and investigative documentaries on social and political issues for Doordarshan.


Later years
He was awarded the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel based on the Partition of India in 1947, Kitne Pakistan (literally How Many Pakistans? but translated in English as Partitions), which explored the way nations fracture, through an allegorical court trial, wherein historical and political figures are present as witnesses, and the Padma Bhushan in 2005.

He died on 27 January 2007 at Faridabad following a heart attack, after being in poor health for several years.

A collection of his short stories in English translation, Not Flowers of Henna, was released in 2007.

Usually with

Satyen Kappu
Satyen Kappu
(6 films)
Om Shivpuri
Om Shivpuri
(6 films)
Utpal Dutt
Utpal Dutt
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Kamleshwar (17 films)

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Scriptwriter

Yeh Desh
Yeh Desh (1984)

Directed by Rama Rao Tatineni
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Kamal Haasan, Jeetendra, Zeenat Aman, Shakti Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Vinod Mehra
Roles Dialogue
Rating60% 3.0211853.0211853.0211853.0211853.021185
Yeh Desh is revenge drama with strong family bonds. It is also a social-political film. The film has Jeetendra and Kamal Haasan together and it is the only film they have co-starred.
Baazi
Baazi (1984)
, 2h5
Directed by Raj N. Sippy
Genres Action
Actors Dharmendra, Rekha, Mithun Chakraborty, Ranjeeta "Robby" Kaur, Shakti Kapoor, Madan Puri
Roles Concepteur de dialogues
Rating65% 3.2713853.2713853.2713853.2713853.271385
Ajay Sharma (Dharmendra), is a Police Inspector of notable wealth. He is happily married to Asha (Rekha) with two children. Many a times he goes out of his work area to destructively capture dangerous criminals and inadvertently falls under disciplinary warning with his concerned superiors. After repeated warnings he is discharged from the Police force. He decides to go back to his boyhood town by joining his father (Madan Puri) in the family business. They are living happily. However a notable Criminal going by the name of Rocky (Shakti Kapoor) and his uncle (Pinchoo Kapoor) trace Ajay to his home town and decide to set up a casino. Past its grand opening, Ajay and his friend Albert (Jalal Agha) visit the casino and fall under a confrontation with the gamekeeper and management when they are cheated during the game. During the fight, Albert is killed and Ajay is seriously wounded.
Rang Birangi, 3h
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Parveen Babi, Amol Palekar, Deepti Naval, Utpal Dutt, Farooq Sheikh, Chhaya Devi
Roles Writer
Rating71% 3.587523.587523.587523.587523.58752
Ajay Sharma is a very successful entrepreneur who has now transformed into a workaholic and is seen ignoring his wife of seven years, Nirmala. Enter Ravi Kapoor, a friend of Ajay notices Nirmala's loneliness and decides to fix things by rekindling the spark in their life. Thus starts a hilarious comedy involving Ajay's secretary, Anita and her boyfriend, Jeet and a re-enactment of Pati, Patni aur Woh.
Souten
Souten (1983)

Directed by Saawan Kumar Tak
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rajesh Khanna, Tina Ambani, Padmini Kolhapure, Prem Chopra, Pran Krishan Sikand, Dr. Shriram Lagoo
Rating55% 2.7626452.7626452.7626452.7626452.762645
Shyam is an ambitious man who meets Rukmini, the daughter of a millionaire, and falls in love with her. They get married despite opposition from Rukmani's family. While Shyam wants to become a father, Rukmani is not interested in becoming a mother yet. Consequently, their relationship sours and eventually ends. Radha, daughter of Shyam's employee, brings a ray of hope into Shyam's life. What happens next forms the climax of the story.
The Burning Train, 2h57
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Asrani, Parveen Babi, Danny Denzongpa, Dharmendra, Simi Garewal, Jeetendra
Roles Writer
Rating69% 3.4944653.4944653.4944653.4944653.494465
The plot is an intricately woven one. It starts from childhood with the story of Ashok (also called Shoki by his childhood friend Vinod) (Dharmendra) who is a wealthy industrialist's only son. He is passionate about cars from childhood befriends Vinod (Vinod Khanna) who is passionate about trains; its his dream to make India's fastest train. Rakesh (Vinod Mehra) shares same passion as Vinod. Randhir (Danny Denzongpa) is in a tussle from childhood to make a better train than Vinod's. Childhood turns into adulthood and one day both attend a dance function organised by the Indian Railways. This is where Ashok and Vinod fall in love with two beautiful women: Seema (Hema Malini) and Sheetal (Parveen Babi). Ashok is now deeply in love with Seema and they are planning to get married after their engagement. Vinod is married to Sheetal and they have a son Raju. One day Vinod, who is now a top notch railway engineer, gets awarded with the contract to build a super-fast express train between New Delhi and Mumbai. Rakesh (Vinod Mehra) is his assistant. Randhir, the losing engineer and ex-lover of Sheetal, swears revenge and leaves.
Ram Balram
Ram Balram (1980)
, 2h49
Directed by Vijay Anand
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Rekha, Amjad Khan, Prem Chopra
Roles Concepteur de dialogues
Rating61% 3.0955553.0955553.0955553.0955553.095555
Ram and Balram are 2 young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however kills the boy's father and mother. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents have been killed in an accident and promises to raise them himself.
Pati Patni Aur Woh, 2h21
Directed by Baldev Raj Chopra
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Sanjeev Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Ranjeeta "Robby" Kaur, Rishi Kapoor, Asrani, Parveen Babi
Rating69% 3.487863.487863.487863.487863.48786
The film starts off indicating the parallels of the story with that of Adam & Eve. Here, Adam is Ranjeet, Eve is Sharda while the apple is Nirmala. Ranjeet is newly employed in a company, whose pay scales can be gauged from the fact that he goes to work on a bicycle. However, this bicycle itself brings him face-to-face with Sharda, when he bumps into her by accident. Sharda's bicycle gets badly damaged & Ranjeet drops her off. The same evening, Ranjeet goes to the wedding of his friend Abdul Karim Durrani (Asrani), a co-worker & a poet. Sharda is also present at the ceremony. Sharda & Ranjeet's love blossoms from there & soon they get married.
Anand Ashram, 2h21
Directed by Shakti Samanta
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Uttam Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Rakesh Roshan, Moushumi Chatterjee, Asit Sen
Rating73% 3.664183.664183.664183.664183.66418
Dr. Deepak lives with his wealthy father, a Thakur, in a small town in India. While the Thakur would like to get Deepak to marry a woman from an equally wealthy family, he has fallen in love with a poor woman named Asha, and would like to marry her. The Thakur is displeased, and asks Deepak to leave his house, never to return. A few months later, Thakur's employee, Girdhari, informs him that he has found an abandoned child by the river bank, and would like to adopt him. Initially the Thakur does not want anything to do with the child, but when he sees it for the first time, he decides to let Girdhari have his way. Years later, young Pratap has grown up under Girdhari and Thakur's care, and travels abroad to study in order to be a doctor. When he returns he decides to work with a chemical company. His travels take him to meet a beautiful woman named Kiran, her father, and an elderly man named Doctor. Pratap is perturbed by this doctor, who seems to know him very well, and wants him to leave his job at the chemical company, and start practicing medicine in the small town where they live. What Pratap does not know that this doctor is none other than his biological father, Deepak. What both don't know is what steps the Thakur will take when he finds out that Pratap is none other than his grandson.
Aandhi
Aandhi (1975)
, 2h13
Directed by Gulzar
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Sanjeev Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Om Shivpuri, A. K. Hangal, Om Prakash, Rehman
Roles Novel
Rating78% 3.9415053.9415053.9415053.9415053.941505
J.K. (played by Sanjeev Kumar) is a Hotel manager. One day he gallantly comes to the rescue of a politician's drunk daughter, Aarti (Suchitra Sen). Aarti falls in love with J.K. and both get married in a small ceremony. After few years, the married couple face many differences due to which they decide to separate. Years later, J.K. and Aarti meet again when she is an established politician. Despite the separation, both of them feel the closeness but fearing that her name might be tarnished and jeopardise her career, Aarti does not want to step forward.