1. Kamal Amrohi established Kamal Pictures in 1953 and Kamalistan Studio in Bombay in 1958.
19 Facts About Kamal Amrohi
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Kamal Amrohi was a Shia Muslim born in Amroha, United Provinces in British India and later took on the name Kamal Amrohi.
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Kamal Amrohi was a first cousin to Pakistani writers Jaun Elia and Rais Amrohvi.
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Kamal Amrohi made his debut as a director in 1949, with Mahal, starring Madhubala and Ashok Kumar, which was a musical hit, with songs by Lata Mangeshkar and Rajkumari Dubey.
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Kamal Amrohi wrote the screenplay, lyrics and produced the latter.
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Kamal Amrohi wrote scripts for the movies made by Sohrab Modi, Abdul Rashid Kardar and K Asif.
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Kamal Amrohi was one of the four dialogue writers for the latter's famous 1960 movie, Mughal-e-Azam, for which he won the Filmfare Award.
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Kamal Amrohi had written a substantial portion of the script.
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Kamal Amrohi was again planning to revive the film in 2007 after the debacle of his costume drama Umrao Jaan remake from the cult film from the 1980s.
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Kamal Amrohi remained his senior wife throughout his marriage to Meena Kumari, and died on 9 April 1982.
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Kamal Amrohi met Meena Kumari during the filming of Tamasha.
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Kamal Amrohi got married for the fourth time with his physician.
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Kamal Amrohi had three children with Mehmoodie: two sons, Shandaar and Taajdaar, both of whom worked with him in Razia Sultan, and a daughter, Rukhsar Amrohi.
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Kamal Amrohi had no children with Bilkis Bano, Meena Kumari and later in his life with his fourth wife.
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Kamal Amrohi was laid to rest in Mumbai the following day.
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Kamal Amrohi died on 11 February 1993 in Mumbai, twenty one years after his wife Meena Kumari's death and ten years after making his last film, Razia Sultan.
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Kamal Amrohi was buried next to Meena Kumari in Rehmatabad Qabristan, an Indian-Iranian graveyard in Mumbai.
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Six days after his death, UK daily The Independent, published a obituary for Kamal Amrohi, calling him Moghul-like and presiding over Hindi film industry for over five decades.
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In February 2022, Music label Saregama and actor Bilal Amrohi announced a web series on the love story of Amrohi and Meena Kumari against the backdrop of making of the film.