Ved Rahi

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Ved Rahi (born 22 May 1933) is an Indian author predominantly writing in Dogri language. He is also credited for screenplay and dialogues of various Hindi Bollywood films and TV serials. He directed the Hindi film Veer Savarkar (2001), a bio-epic on the life of Indian revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

Life[edit]

Rahi was born in Jammu on 22 May 1933. His father, Mulk Raj Saraf started the first newspaper in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir titled Ranbir in 1924. Saraf was presented with the civil award Padma Shri by Government of India in 1976.

Works[edit]

Rahi published various short stories in Dogri language and along with Narendra Khajuria and Madan Mohan Sharma, is considered as noted Dogri writer of modern times.^[1]^[2]

His books have been translated to various other Indian languages. Translation of Lal Ded in Sindhi language (by Sarita Sharma as Lal Ded (2015) and by Rattan Lal Shant as Lal Ded (2015)) and of Aale in Kashmiri language (by Abdul Gani Beg Athar as Lakhakar Yin Vaapas (2010)) have also received Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in Sindhi and Kashmiri categories respectively.^[3]

Films

1966 - Yeh Raat Phir Na Aayegi as screenplay writer
1970 - Pavitra Paapi as dialogues and screenplay writer
1971 - Aap Aye Bahaar Ayee as writer
1971 - Pavitra Paapi as screenplay writer
1972 - Be-Imaan as dialogues writer
1972 - Mome Ki Gudiya as dialogues writer
1973 - Prem Parbat as director
1975 - Sanyasi as dialogues writer
1976 - Charas as dialogues writer
1980 - Kali Ghata as director, producer and writer
1982 - Bezubaan as dialogues writer
2001 - Veer Savarkar as director, writer

Books

Kaale Hatthe - Novel
Garbh Joon - Novel
Lal Ded - Novel
Aale - Novel
Ik Journalist di Aatamkatha - Biography of Mulk Raj Saraf
Haad Bedi Te Pattan - Novel
Andhi Surang - Novel
Ek Tha Chitrakaar, Ek Tha Raja - Short stories
Maut - Short stories
Soch

Awards[edit]

1983 - Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Dogri for this short stories collection Aale.
2011 - Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award (Award presented in 2014)^[4]
2019 - Kusumagraj Rashtriya Sahitya Puraskar ^[5]

References[edit]

↑ Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems. Sahitya Akademi. 1992. pp. 103–104. ISBN 9788172013240.
↑ Shivanath (1997). Two Decades of Dogri Literature. Sahitya Akademi. p. 35. ISBN 9788126003938.
↑ "Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2015" (PDF). Sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Retrieved 31 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
↑ "Ved Rahi's hat-trick of awards in a month". Daily Excelsior. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
↑ "Film director, novelist Ved Rahi to get Kusumagraj literature award". The Tribune. Retrieved 31 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links[edit]

[1] Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems. Sahitya Akademi. 1992. pp. 103–104. ISBN 9788172013240.

[2] Shivanath (1997). Two Decades of Dogri Literature. Sahitya Akademi. p. 35. ISBN 9788126003938.

[Translations-3] "Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2015" (PDF). Sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Retrieved 31 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[4] "Ved Rahi's hat-trick of awards in a month". Daily Excelsior. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2023.

[5] "Film director, novelist Ved Rahi to get Kusumagraj literature award". The Tribune. Retrieved 31 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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