Feroz Abbas Khan

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Feroz Abbas Khan

Born 1959

Occupation playwright, theatre director, film director, screenwriter

Website www.ferozkhan.com/fz_feroz.htm

Feroz Abbas Khan is an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter, who is
most known for directing plays like Saalgirah, Tumhari Amrita (1992), Salesman
Ramlal and Gandhi Viruddh Gandhi. [1][2]

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 1Career
 2Plays
 3References
 4External links

Career[edit]
He was the first artistic director of the Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai and in 1983 was head of the
Prithvi Theatre Festival with Jennifer Kapoor and Akash Khurana. He started with productions
like the early comedy All the Best and Saalgirah (1993), written by playwright Javed
Siddiqui with Anupam Kher and Kirron Kher, which incidentally became her first acting
performance during her comeback after a sabbatical. In 1992, American playwright and
[3]

novelist, A. R. Gurney's play Love Letters was adapted to Urdu and Indian context by Javed
Siddiqui and first performed by veteran actors, Shabana Azmi and Farooq Sheikh at the Jennifer
Kapoor Festival in Prithvi theatre in February 1992, under his direction, where for one-and-a-half
hours, they read the letters describing the relationship between two characters Amrita and
Zulfikar, over a period of 35 years. The play went on tour to many parts of the world, including
US, Europe and Pakistan. [4]

His production of Peter Shaffer's satirical comedy, The Royal Hunt of the Sun and the
contemporary Indian adaptation of Arthur Miller's classic Death of a Salesman, 'Salesman
Ramlal' (1997), starring actor-director Satish Kaushik are important plays of Indian
theatre. Next came English theatre production of Mahatma v/s Gandhi, based on relationship
[5][6]

between Mahatma Gandhi and his son, Harilal Gandhi.

In 2007, he made his film debut with Gandhi, My Father, based on his one previous
play, Mahatma vs Gandhi, and opened to critical acclaim. At the National Film Award, [7]

actor Darshan Zariwala won the Best Supporting Actor Award, for his role of Gandhi, while the
film itself won the Special Jury Award and Best Screenplay and the Best Screenplay Award at
[8][9][10]

the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and nominated for Grand Prix at Tokyo Film Festival.