Rajinder Singh Bedi

Rajinder Singh Bedi
Born
Rajinder Singh Bedi

(1915-09-01)1 September 1915[1]
Sialkot, Punjab, British India
Died11 November 1984(1984-11-11) (aged 69)[2]
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation(s)Novelist, playwright, film director, screenwriter
Years active1933–1984
Awards1959 Filmfare Best Dialogue Award:Madhumati (1958)
1971 Filmfare Best Dialogue Award:Satyakam (1969)
1965 Sahitya Akademi Award

Rajinder Singh Bedi (1 September 1915 – 11 November 1984) was an Indian Urdu writer of the progressive writers' movement and a playwright, who later worked in Hindi cinema as a film director, screenwriter and dialogue writer and he is grandfather to Rajat Bedi and Manek Bedi.

As a screenwriter and dialogue writer, he is best known for Hrishikesh Mukherjee's films Abhimaan, Anupama and Satyakam; and Bimal Roy's Madhumati. As a director he is known for Dastak (1970), starring Sanjeev Kumar and Rehana Sultan and Phagun (1973), starring Dharmendra, Waheeda Rehman, Jaya Bhaduri and Vijay Arora. He wrote his scripts in Urdu, like a number of other prominent screenwriters at the time.[3]

Bedi is considered one of the leading 20th century progressive writers of Urdu fiction, and one of the most prominent Urdu fiction writers.[4][5] He is most known for 'disturbing' Partition of India tales.[6]

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  2. ^ "Rajinder Singh Bedi - Profile & Biography". Rekhta. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  3. ^ Aḵẖtar, Jāvīd; Kabir, Nasreen Munni (2002). Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema with Javed Akhtar. Oxford University Press. p. 49. ISBN 9780195664621. Archived from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2017. most of the writers working in this so-called Hindi cinema write in Urdu: Gulzar, or Rajinder Singh Bedi or Inder Raj Anand or Rahi Masoom Raza or Vahajat Mirza, who wrote dialogue for films like Mughal-e-Azam and Gunga Jumna and Mother India. So most dialogue-writers and most song-writers are from the Urdu discipline, even today.
  4. ^ "Bollywood greats". Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2007.
  5. ^ "Urdu Studies". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2007.
  6. ^ "Emergency? No thanks". The Times of India. 16 July 2005. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2014.