Ved Rahi
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
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
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
- 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
- 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. 15 February 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
- "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. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2023.