Sunday, September 2, 2007

Anand,INDER Raj and David Niven


Scenarist and dialogue writer born in Miani ( Now Pakistan ) ;uncle of Mukul S.Anandsudent years in Lahore and Hyderabad.Close associated with the IPTA’s Bombay branch.Major contribution is playwright for Prithviraj Kapoor’s Prithvi Theatres :Deewar and CHaddar mark its IPTA-influenced early 40s radical phase.Publicist for Minerva when Raj Kapoor hired him to write Aag ( 1948),leading to further collaborations :Aab ( 1953) ;Chahlia ( 1960) ,Sangam ( 1964) ;Sapnon Ka saudagar ( 1968 ) .
Also scripted Mohan Segal’s landmark satire New Delhi and the DEc Anand whodunit CID ( both (1956) .Since early 60s,worked mainly as a ‘genre professsional’ for South Indian producers wishing to enter the Bombay-based mainstream :e.g.dialogues for the Hindi of L.V Prasad,K.Balachander,Adurthi Subba Rao and Bharathirajaa.Regular scenarist for the 80s director Raj Kumar Kohli.Wrote and directed one film,Phoolon Ki Sej ( 1964) ,influenced ,he claimed ,by James Jones ‘s From Here To Eternity and Doris Lessing.Other script and /or dialogue credicts include :Phool Aur Kaante ( 1948) ;Birha Ki Raat( 1950) ;Anari,Chhobti, Baben ( both 1959 ) ;Sasural (1961) ;Dil Tera Diwana (1962) ;Bahurani,Hamrahi(both1963) ;Beti Bete ;Dulha Dulhan ‘( 1964) ;Aasman Mahal (1965) :Chhoba Bhai (1966) ;Vaasna (1968) ;Bhai Bahen ,Nannha Farishta ( both 1969) ;Devi,Safar(1970) :Jawani Diwani,Anokha Daan (both 1972),Gaai Aur Gori,Samjhauta,Insaaf (all 1973),prem Nagar,shuhh Din,Faasla,Aaina (all 1974) Julie,Raja,Sunehra Sansar(all1975),Maa,Nagrin (both1976) ;yahi Hai Zindagi(1977) ;lovers,Yeh ishq Nahin Asaan (both1983) ;Ek Nai Paheli,Jeene Nahin Doonga,Raj Tilak (all 1984).
( Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema )





Writer:
1980s
1970s
1960s
1950s
1940s
Shahenshah (1988) (written by)
Mard (1985) (dialogue)
Yeh Ishq Nahin Aasan (1984)
Ek Nai Paheli (1984)
... aka A New Puzzle
Jeene Nahi Doonga (1984)
... aka Jeene Nahin Doonga (India: Hindi title: alternative transliteration)
Raaj Tilak (1984)
Lovers (1983/I)
Vakil Babu (1982) (written by)
Kaalia (1981) (dialogue)


Jaani Dushman (1979) (dialogue)
... aka Beloved Enemy (India: English title)
Yehi Hai Zindagi (1977) (dialogue)
... aka Yehi Hai Zindagi (India: Hindi title: video box title)
Aaina (1977) (dialogue)
... aka Aval Oru Thodarkathai (India: Tamil title)
... aka Aval Oru Thudarkatha (India: Malayalam title)
... aka She Is a Serial Story
Nagin (1976) (dialogue)
Maa (1976)
... aka Mother (International: English title)
Julie (1975) (dialogue)
Raja (1975)
Sunehra Sansar (1975)
Prem Nagar (1974)
Faslah (1974)
... aka Faasla (India: Hindi title: alternative transliteration)
... aka The Distance
Gaai Aur Gori (1973)
Jawani Diwani (1972)
... aka The Madness of Youth
Anokha Daan (1972)
Apna Desh (1972) (dialogue)
... aka Your Country (International: English title)
Upaasna (1971) (dialogue) (screenplay)
Haathi Mere Saathi (1971) (dialogue)
Devi (1970) (dialogue) (as Inder Rajanand) (screenplay) (as Inder Rajanand)
Safar (1970) (dialogue)


Bhai Bahen (1969)
... aka Brother and Sister
Nanha Farishta (1969)
Sapnon Ka Saudagar (1968) (story)
... aka Sapno Ka Suadagar (India: Hindi title: DVD box title)
Vaasna (1968)
Chhota Bhai (1966)
Aasmaan Mahal (1965)
... aka Heavenly Palace
... aka The Celestial Palace
Beti Bete (1964) (dialogue) (screenplay)
Dulha Dulhan (1964) (dialogue) (screenplay)
Phoolon Ki Sej (1964)
Sangam (1964/I)
... aka Confluence (International: English title) (UK)
Bahurani (1963)
... aka Daughter-in-Law (International: English title)
Hamrahi (1963) (dialogue) (screenplay)
Asli-Naqli (1962) (written by)
Dil Tera Diwana (1962)
... aka Dil Tera Deewana (India: Hindi title: alternative transliteration)
Sasural (1961) (dialogue) (screenplay)
Chhalia (1960)


Anari (1959) (dialogue) (screenplay) (story)
Char Dil Char Raahein (1959)
... aka Four Faces of India (UK)
... aka Four Hearts, Four Roads
Chhoti Bahen (1959) (dialogue) (screenplay)
Sharada (1957) (screenplay)
C.I.D. (1956) (dialogue) (screenplay)
New Delhi (1956) (screenplay)
Aah (1953) (dialogue) (as Inder Raj) (photoplay) (as Inder Raj) (story) (as Inder Raj)
... aka Avan (India: Tamil title: dubbed version)
... aka Premalekhalu (India: Telugu title: dubbed version)
Birha Ki Raat (1950)


Aag (1948) (dialogue) (as Inder Raj) (screenplay) (as Inder Raj) (story) (as Inder Raj)
... aka Fire
Phool Aur Kaante (1948)
... aka Flowers and Thorns (India: English title)

Director:
Phoolon Ki Sej (1964)

Thanks:
Shahenshah (1988) (dedicatee)







James David Graham Niven was born in London, England, the son of William Edward Graham Niven and French/British Henrietta Julia Degacher, born in Wales, the daughter of army officer William Degacher (who changed his original name of Hitchcock to his mother's maiden name of Degacher in 1874 [3]) and Julia Caroline, the daughter of Lieutenant General James Webber Smith[4]. He was named David for his birth on St. David's Day. Although he often used to claim that he was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland it was only after his birth certificate was checked after his death that this was found to be incorrect. [5]

His father was killed during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 and his mother remarried Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt. In his biography, NIV: The Authorized Biography of David Niven, Graham Lord suggests that Comyn-Platt had actually been conducting an affair with Niven's mother for some time prior to her husband's death, and that Sir Thomas may well have been Niven's biological father, a supposition not without some support from her children, it seems.




Filmography
Features:

There Goes the Bride (1932)
Eyes of Fate (1933)
Cleopatra (1934)
Without Regret (1935)
Barbary Coast (1935)
A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Splendor (1935)
Rose Marie (1936)
Palm Springs (1936)
Dodsworth (1936)
Thank You, Jeeves! (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Beloved Enemy (1936)
We Have Our Moments (1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Dinner at the Ritz (1937)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
Three Blind Mice (1938)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
The Real Glory (1939)
Eternally Yours (1939)
Raffles (1939)
The First of the Few (1942)
The Way Ahead (1944)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Magnificent Doll (1946)
The Perfect Marriage (1947)
The Other Love (1947)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
Enchantment (1948)
A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
A Kiss for Corliss (1949)
The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Happy Go Lovely (1951)
Soldiers Three (1951)
Appointment with Venus (1951)
The Lady Says No (1952)
The Moon Is Blue (1953)
The Love Lottery (1954)
Tonight's the Night (1954)
Carrington V.C. (1955)
The King's Thief (1955)
The Birds and the Bees (1956)
The Silken Affair (1956)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957)
The Little Hut (1957)
My Man Godfrey (1957)
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Separate Tables (1958)
Ask Any Girl (1959)
Happy Anniversary (1959)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Shortest Day (1962)
Conquered City (1962)
The Best of Enemies (1962)
The Road to Hong Kong (1962) (Cameo)
Guns of Darkness (1962)
55 Days at Peking (1963)
The Pink Panther (1963)
Bedtime Story (1964)
Where the Spies Are (1965)
Lady L (1965)
Eye of the Devil (1966)
Casino Royale (1967)
Prudence and the Pill (1968)
The Impossible Years (1968)
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
The Brain (1969)
Before Winter Comes (1969)
The Statue (1971)
King, Queen, Knave (1972)
Vampira (1974)
Paper Tiger (1975)
No Deposit, No Return (1976)
Murder by Death (1976)
Candleshoe (1977)
Speed Fever (1978) (documentary)
Death on the Nile (1978)
A Nightingale Sang in Berekely Square (1979)
Escape to Athena (1979)
Rough Cut (1980)
The Sea Wolves (1980)
Better Late Than Never (1982)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Short Subjects:

Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 4 (1936)
Screen Snapshots: Glamorous Hollywood (1958)
All Eyes on Sharon Tate (1967)
The Remarkable Rocket (1975) (narrator) .

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