Ismat Chughtai
Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
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| Date of birth | 15 August 1915
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| Place of birth | Badayun, Uttar Pradesh, British India
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| Date of death | 24 October 1991
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| Place of death | Mumbai, India
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Ismat Chughtai is known for his role in the film Junoon (1979) as dialogue.
He is also known for his role in the film Scorching Winds (1975) as based on a short story by.
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