Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Mehboob

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Jan 26, 2012, 7:30:58 AM (12 years ago)

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+== Mehboob ==
+(1906-64)
+Aka Mehboob Khan.
+
+Hindi-Urdu director regarded as one of the most important
+influences on post-50s cinema. Born as Ramjan
+Khan in Bilimoria, Gujarat. Ran away to
+Bombay to join film industry. Started as extra
+and factotum in [[Imperial Studio]] where he met
+director R.S. Choudhury (later scenarist for
+Roti and Aan) and cameraman Faredoon A.
+Irani. Acted as one of the thieves in [[Alibaba
+and the Forty Thieves]]. Directorial début at
+Sagar (1935). Worked in [[National Studios]]
+(1940-2) along with [[Kardar]]. Founded
+[[Mehboob Prod.]] in 1942 (established as studio
+in 1952) using a hammer and sickle emblem
+even though formally unassociated with the CP.
+Acclaimed first as heir to Imperial’s historicals
+(Judgement of Allah, Humayun); he
+continued its trend of merging DeMille with the
+conventions of the Urdu stage but brought to
+the formula a greater self reflexiveness (Roti).
+His Mother India (a subcontinental
+equivalent of Gone with the Wind which has
+been declared India’s most successful film
+ever) also evoked Dovzhenko’s lyricised
+socialist-realist imagery. Immensely successful
+on an international scale, Mehboob’s films
+often derive from a clash between pre-capitalist
+ruralism (with its blood feuds, debts of honour,
+kinship laws etc.) and an increasingly
+modernised state with its commercial-industrial
+practices and values. His elaboration of
+political themes within popular generic
+conventions provides the bridge between the
+pre-Independence cinema of e.g. Bhavnani
+(Mazdoor, 1934) and the social critiques
+attempted by Raj Kapoor in the post-1947
+industrial mainstream. With Andaz he made
+what was regarded as the first Indian film set in
+‘modern times’ among an affluent middle class,
+exerting an enormous influence on later films
+(e.g. Awara, 1951).
+
+FILMOGRAPHY (* only act): 1927: [[Alibaba
+and the Forty Thieves]]*; [[Allah Ka Pyara]]*; 1929:
+[[Shirin Khushrau]]*; 1930: [[Mewad No Mawali]]*;
+1931: [[Raj Tilak]]*; [[Dilawar]]* (all St); [[Meri Jaan]]*;
+[[Veer Abhimanyu]]*; 1932: [[Bulbul-e-Baghdad]]*;
+1933: [[Chandrahasa]]*; [[Pandav Kaurav]]*; [[Mirza Sahiban]]*; [[Premi Pagal]]*; 1934:
+[[Grihalakshmi]]*; [[Naachwali]]*; [[Sati Anjani]]*;
+1935: [[Vengeance Is Mine]]*; [[Judgement of
+Allah]]; 1936: [[Deccan Queen]]; [[Manmohan]];
+1937: [[Jagirdar]]; 1938: [[Hum Tum Aur Woh]];
+[[Watan]]; 1939: [[Ek Hi Raasta]]; 1940: [[Alibaba]];
+[[Aurat]]; 1941: [[Bahen]]; 1942: [[Roti]]; 1943:
+[[Najma]]; [[Taqdeer]]; 1945: [[Humayun]]; 1946:
+[[Anmol Ghadi]]; 1947: [[Elaan]]; 1948: [[Anokhi]]
+[[Ada]]; 1949: [[Andaz]]; 1952: [[Aan]]; 1954: [[Amar]];
+1957: [[Mother India]]; 1962: [[Son of India]].
+
+[[Actor]] [[Director]]