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Known for
Writer
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1908-04-20
Location
Uttar Pradesh, India
Edit pageWajahat Mirza
Biography
Wajahat Hussain Mirza Changezi (20 April 1908 – 4 August 1990) was an Indian screenwriter and film director who penned the dialogues of some of the most successful films in India during the 1950s and 1960s, best known for Mughal-e-Azam (1960) and the Academy Award nominee, Mother India (1957).
Mirza won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award twice, in 1960 for Mughal-e-Azam, and in 1961 for Ganga Jamuna.
He also won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for Ganga Jamuna.
He was born in Sitapur, a small town 89 kilometers from Lucknow. While studying at Government Jubilee Inter College, Lucknow, Mirza became acquainted with cinematographer Krishan Gopal of Calcutta and worked as his assistant.
He later co-produced with singer Midgan Kumar a movie called Anokhi Mohabbat ("Crazy Love") in Bombay. He also directed the 1945 hit film Prabhu Ka Ghar starring Khursheed Bano, Trilok Kapoor, and Sulochana Chatterjee.
Mirza later became a dialogue and screenplay writer and was also one of the first Indians to be nominated for an Oscar for the movie Mother India (1957), based upon a story by Babubhai Mehta.
