In "Char Shaher Ek Kahani" (1968), K.A. Abbas contrasts official images of India’s industrial progress with stark footage of urban poverty and Bombay’s red-light district. The 16-minute documentary became a landmark censorship case after the Central Board of Film Certification objected to its depiction of prostitution, leading Abbas to successfully challenge the decision in the Supreme Court.
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Director, Writer
McQueen74%
The Class of ‘9271%
Directed by John Ford70%
Public Speaking70%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
A Plastic Ocean75%
180° South72%
The Carter Effect70%
Sherman's March67%
Voyeur59%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Night Will Fall76%
Above Majestic73%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Sidney70%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Tabloid64%
Love, Antosha74%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Dawg Fight65%
