What connects Shahid Kapoor with Amitabh Bachchan!

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Posted: 14 years ago

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What connects Shahid Kapoor with Amitabh Bachchan's debut film 'Saat Hindustani"? Hint: Think family!!

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Posted: 14 years ago

Originally posted by: 2direct
Pankaj???

No yaar...clue is in the film mentioned...😊

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Posted: 14 years ago

Ok..another clue...connection is through Shahid's mother's side..not father's side...😊

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I am giving half the answer now...K A Abbas was the director of AB's debut film...and he is related to Shahid...what is his relation?

Saat Hindustani (translation: Seven Indians) is a 1969 film written and directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas.

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (7 June 1914 ' 1 June 1987), popularly known as K. A. Abbas, was an Indian film director, novelist,screenwriter, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi and English languages. He was the maker of important Hindi films such as Saat Hindustani (1969) and Do Boond Pani (1972), both of which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration, Palme d'Or nominated (Cannes Film Festival)Pardesi (1957) and Shehar Aur Sapna (1963), which won the National Film Award for Best Film.

As a screenwriter, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas is considered one of pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realistic cinema, having penned films like the Palme d'Orwinner at the Cannes Film Festival, Neecha Nagar (1946), Jagte Raho, Dharti Ke Lal, Awara, Saat Hindustani and Naya Sansar. Apart from this, he wrote the best of Raj Kapoor films, Awaara, Shri 420, Mera Naam Joker, Bobby and Henna.^[1]

He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1969

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K A Abbas sahab was Neelima Azeem's grand father.

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Abbas's family tree goes back to Aiyub Ansari, the companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.^{[citation needed]} He was the grandson of Hali, the chief protg of Urdu poet Ghalib, while Abbas's great grandson is Anwar Azeem, a prominent Marxist journalist and Urdu writer, and father of actor/dancer, Neelima Azeem, mother of Bollywood sensation Shahid Kapoor.^[3]^[4]

What a family tree..Sasha has...😳