Niranjan Pal Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Niranjan Pal Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Niranjan Pal (17 August 1889 â€" 9 November 1959) was an Indian

playwright, screenwriter, and director in the Indian film industry in

the silent and early talkie days. He was a close associate of Himanshu

Rai and Franz Osten, with whom he was a founding member of Bombay

Talkies.Born on 17 August 1889 in Calcutta, West Bengal, Niranjan Pal

was born in an illustrious Sylheti family, his father was the noted

freedom fighter, Bipin Chandra Pal, and Niranjan himself as a teenager

was briefly involved in the Indian freedom struggle during an

association with Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Madanlal Dhingra in

London. By the late 1910s, he started writing and eventually wrote The

Light of Asia and Shiraz, both of which were performed on stage in

London. Both were commercially successful and attracted the attention

of German filmmaker Franz Osten, who made screen versions in India.

Himanshu Rai, then a lawyer, also acted in one of Niranjan Pal's plays

Goddess also performed in London, though some sources suggest that it

was Devika Rani who first met him, through their common Brahmo Samaj

connections, which paved way for his eventual stake in the creation of

Bombay Talkies.Following the successes of The Light of Asia and Shiraz

1928, Pal moved back to India with his English wife, Lily, and son

Colin Pal, and embarked on a career as the screenplay writer for

Bombay Talkies. He also started directing films, and made among others

Needle's Eye (1931), Pardesia (1932), and Chitthi (1941). His career

as a director was however far less successful than his work as a

screenwriter, in which role he wrote some of India's earliest

blockbusters Achhut Kanya (1936), Janmabhoomi (1936), Jeevan Naiya

(1936) and Jawani Ki Hawa (1935). Of these Achhut Kanya was the most

popular, and continues to be a landmark film as it dealt with the

subject of untouchability.He also collaborated with noted dancer, Uday

Shankar to write a libretto for first Indian ballets, performed by

Anna Pavlova and Uday Shankar himself.
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