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Rehearsing Shakespear’s “Merchant Of Venice”
Rehearsing Shakespear’s “Merchant Of Venice” for the BBC, 1952
Rehearsing Shakespear’s Othello
Rehearsing Shakespear’s Othello for the BBC, 1953
Yavar Abbas
BBC URDU SERVICE – Yavar Abbas, writer and producer of the BBC Urdu Service Series ‘European Poets of Urdu’ pictured in the India Office Library in London. (1980s)
Yavar Abbas interviewing Ali Sardar Jafri.
Interviewing Ali Sardar Jafri, the Great Urdu Writer, for the BBC Urdu Service.
Yavar Abbas interviewing Mrs. V. L. Pandit
BBC URDU SERVICE – Mrs. V. L. Pandit, India’s former High Commissioner in London interviewed by Yavar Abbas of the BBC Urdu Service, during her visit to London for the Publication of her personal memoir THE SCOPE OF HAPPINESS
Yavar Abbas interviewing Qaratul Kin Haider
Interviewing Qaratul Kin Haider, the Great Urdu Novelist, during her visit to London (1990s)
Yavar Abbas, reading the news
Yavar Abbas, reading the news for BBC.
Yavar Abbas
Cameraman, Producer, Director, Yavar Abbas, (1966)
Capt. Yavar Abbas
Capt. Yavar Abbas, 11th Sikh Regiment, British Indian Army, 1943.
BBC Urdu Service
BBC Urdu Service From Left to right: Raz Moradabadi, Unknown Person, Siddique Ahmad Siddiqui, Amjad Ali, L. V. Deane (Head of Service), Noor Ahmad Chauhan, Yavar Abbas and Taqi Ahmad
Yavar Abbas, with President Dr. Zakir Husain
Yavar Abbas, with the President of India, Dr. Zakir Husain, for a special Screening of FACES OF INDIA, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi (1968)
Inauguration of Yavar Abbas Film Festival
Yavar Abbas at the inauguration of Yavar Abbas Film Festival, Bhurabhai Desai Auditorium, (June 1970) From Left to Right: 2nd Amir Fazal Bhoy, 3rd Sue Shaukat Khan, 4th Shaukat Khan (Son of the Great Mehboob Khan), Yavar Abbas, thespian Premnath.
Yavar Abbas with Prof. Nurul Hasan
Hamida and Yavar Abbas with Prof. Nurul Hasan, governor of West Bengal, at the London High Comission (1990s)
With Lt. Gen. Mohammed Ayub Khan
Lieutenant – General Mohammed Ayub Khan (Centre), Commander – in – Chief Designate of Pakistan Army, who broadcast a talk in the BBC Urdu Service, during his visit to Britain in November, 1950. Discussing the script with him are L.V. Deane, BBC Urdu Programme Organiser, (left) and Yavar Abbas, Producer.
Marconi Award
Marconi Award, presented to Yavar Abbas’s INDIA! MY INDIA!
Discussion programme in BBC Urdu Service
Members of the team who took part in this discussion programme broadcast in the BBC Urdu Service. Left to right: Ijaz Husain, Begum Ikramullah (Wife of the Pakistani Ambassador to Paris), Yavar Abbas, chairman and producer of the programme, Mrs. Ghasala Ansari, and Mr. S. A. Siddiqui of the BBC Urdu Service. (1954)
Yavar Abbas interviewing Ben Kingsley
BBC URDU SERVICE – Ben Kingsley talks about his role as Othello in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production at Stratford with Yavar Abbas of the BBC Urdu Service.
SACF Lifetime Achievement Award
SACF Lifetime Achievement Award
