Nariman A. Irani
Biography
Nariman A. Irani (? – 10 December 1977) was a Bollywood cinematographer and film producer. He is best known for producing Don (1978) made under his banner Nariman Films and for his work as a cinematographer in Chhailla Babu (1977). He died in an accident before Don was completed; eventually, the film was a big hit and led to the Don film franchise.
As a cinematographer, he is known for films including Talash, Saraswatichandra Phool Aur Patthar, Roti Kapada Aur Makaan, and Chhailla Babu. He won the 16th National Film Awards for Best Cinematography (B & W) for Saraswatichandra (1968), and he also won the Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer in the same year.
Irani, while working on Chhailla Babu as a cinematographer, decided to borrow most of the plot of Chhailla Babu and shared a modified story idea with Chandra Barot, who made the new modified story as the 1978 film Don.
While Don was still under production he suffered a serious hip bone injury when, after a sudden cloudburst in November 1977, a wall fell on him while he was preparing to take a shot for another film at Rajkamal Kalamandir studios, Bombay during the making of Manoj Kumar's Kranti. He was hospitalized but died a few days later.
