Rajinder Singh Bedi Explained

Rajinder Singh Bedi
Birthname:Rajinder Singh Bedi
Birth Date:1915 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Sialkot, Punjab, British India
Occupation:Novelist, playwright, film director, screenwriter
Death Date:[1]
Death Place:Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Yearsactive:1933–1984
Awards:1959 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, 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.[2]

Bedi is considered one of the leading 20th century progressive writers of Urdu fiction, and one of the most prominent Urdu fiction writers.[3] [4] He is most known for 'disturbing' Partition of India tales.[5]

Biography

Early life

Bedi was born in village Dhallewali in Sialkot district, Punjab, now in Pakistan, to Hira Singh Bedi and Seva Dai.[6] He spent his early years in Lahore, where he received his education in Urdu, as it was common to most Punjabi families, though he never graduated from a college.[7]

Career

His first collection of short stories, Daan-O-Daam (The Catch), featuring his prominent story "Garam Coat" (Warm Coat) was published in 1940.[8] In 1942, he published his second collection of short stories, Grehan (The Eclipse).[9]

In 1943, he joined Maheshwari Films, a small Lahore film studio, although after one and half years he returned to All India Radio and was posted to Jammu, where he worked until 1947, and became the Director of Jammu and Kashmir Broadcasting Service.By the time of Partition Rajinder Singh Bedi had published numerous more short stories, and had made a name for himself as a prolific writer. His Urdu novel, Ek Chadar Maili Si, translated into English as I Take This Woman, by Khushwant Singh received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965.[10] The book was later translated into Hindi, Kashmiri and Bengali.

His later collections of short stories were Kokh Jali and Apne Dukh Mujhe Dedo and a collection of plays, Saat Khel.[11]

Films

After the partition of India in 1947, he moved to Bombay, and started working with D. D. Kashyap and got his first screen credit for dialogue, in the 1949 film Badi Bahen, although he received greater recognition for his second film Daag, a 1952 film.[12]

In 1954, he joined with Amar Kumar, Balraj Sahni, Geeta Bali and others to create a new company called Cine Cooperative. In 1955, it produced its first film, Garam Coat. Based on Bedi's short story Garam Coat, starring Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy, and directed by Aman Kumar, the film gave Bedi the chance to write an entire screenplay.

Their second film, Rangoli (1962), starring Kishore Kumar, Vyjayantimala, and Durga Khote, was also directed by Amar Kumar.[13]

He continued to display his range in dialogue writing styles in many classic Hindi films, starting with Sohrab Modi's Mirza Ghalib (1954), Bimal Roy's Devdas (1955), and Madhumati (1958); Amar Kumar and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's films, Anuradha (1960), Anupama (1966), Satyakam (1969) and (1973).

He made his directorial debut with Hindi classic Dastak (1970), starring Sanjeev Kumar and Rehana Sultan, with music by Madan Mohan, and in the following decade he directed three more films: Phagun (1973), Nawab Sahib (1978) and Aankhin Dekhi (1978).

His novella Ek Chadar Maili Si was made into a film in Pakistan, Mutthi Bhar Chawal (1978)[14] and later in India, as Ek Chadar Maili Si (1986).[15]

His son Narender Bedi was also a film director and the maker of films including Jawani Diwani (1972), Benaam (1974), Rafoo Chakkar (1975), and Sanam Teri Kasam (1982). He died in 1982, a few years after Bedi's wife. Thereafter, Bedi's health consistently deteriorated. He suffered paralysis in 1982 and died in Bombay two years later.[6]

His short story 'Lajwanti' was made into a telefilm, by Neena Gupta in 2006.[16]

Legacy

In his memory, the Government of Punjab has started a "Rajinder Singh Bedi Award" in the field of Urdu Literature.[17]

Filmography

Awards

Films

Literary awards

Bibliography

Work on Rajinder Singh Bedi

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rajinder Singh Bedi - Profile & Biography . 2023-09-06 . Rekhta . en.
  2. Book: Aḵẖtar. Jāvīd. Javed Akhtar. Kabir. Nasreen Munni. Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema with Javed Akhtar. 2002. Oxford University Press. 9780195664621. 49. en. 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.. 1 December 2017. 22 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230222062332/https://books.google.com/books?id=_JILAQAAMAAJ. live.
  3. Web site: Bollywood greats . 11 October 2007 . 7 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150707001945/http://www.sikh-heritage.co.uk/arts/bollywoodgreats/bollygreats.htm . live .
  4. Web site: Urdu Studies . 8 October 2007 . 3 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195223/http://www.urdustudies.com/auinfo/BediRS.html . live .
  5. Web site: Emergency? No thanks. 16 July 2005. 2014-08-26. The Times of India. 30 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130730054353/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Sunday_Specials/Emergency_No_thanks/rssarticleshow/1172938.cms. live.
  6. Book: Singh, Ranjit. Sikh Achievers. 2008. Hemkunt Press. 978-81-7010-365-3. 152–153.
  7. Web site: The Films of Rajinder Singh Bedi – Annual of Urdu Studies. v. 5, 1985 . 20 February 2021 . 16 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200716041837/https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/annualofurdustudies/pager.html?volume=5&objectid=PK2151.A6152_5_087.gif . live .
  8. Web site: The Films of Rajinder Singh Bedi – Annual of Urdu Studies. v. 5, p 83. 1985 . 20 February 2021 . 16 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200716041837/https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/annualofurdustudies/pager.html?volume=5&objectid=PK2151.A6152_5_087.gif . live .
  9. Web site: The Tribune India . Long & short of story, Bedi was special . Tribuneindia News Service . 1915-09-01 . 2021-10-31 . 31 October 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211031185622/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/long-short-of-story-bedi-was-special-126227 . live .
  10. http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10322.htm#urdu Sahitya Akademi Awards – Urdu
  11. Web site: History of Urdu Literature . 29 January 2007 . 9 October 2007 . 14 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161014080135/https://motso.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/history-of-urdu-literature/ . live .
  12. Web site: The Films of Rajinder Singh Bedi – Annual of Urdu Studies. v. 5, p. 81, 1985 . 20 February 2021 . 16 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200716041837/https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/annualofurdustudies/pager.html?volume=5&objectid=PK2151.A6152_5_087.gif . live .
  13. Web site: The Films of Rajinder Singh Bedi – Annual of Urdu Studies. v. 5, p. 82, 1985 . 20 February 2021 . 18 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200718210616/https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/annualofurdustudies/pager.html?objectid=PK2151.A6152_5_088.gif . live .
  14. Web site: Back to Classics . 8 October 2007 . 13 May 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060513173820/http://www.dawn.com/weekly/images/archive/050814/images1.htm . live .
  15. Web site: A study of the film, Ek Chadar Maili Si . 24 October 2007 . 24 July 2008 . 12 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160312100449/http://picturesquepicture.blogspot.com/2007/10/ek-chadar-maili-si-1986.html . live .
  16. https://archive.today/20130204014748/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060721/asp/etc/story_6499294.asp A telefilm Lajwanti (TV series) by Neena Gupta
  17. Web site: Language Department, Govt. of Punjab . 11 October 2007 . 22 July 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100722114124/http://punjabgovt.nic.in/GOVERNMENT/govt75p.htm . dead .
  18. http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10322.htm#urdu Sahitya Akademi Awards – Urdu
  19. http://www.ghalibinstitute.com/awards.htm Ghalib Award
  20. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1402148.cms The Times of India
  21. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020929/spectrum/book9.htm Writings on Widowhood

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