Mehboob’s AAN (1952) – Indian Cinema’s entry into Europe
This latest piece on Aan is part of an on going series of tentative writings and research on the films of Mehboob Khan – earlier posts have focused on Roti…
Category: Mehboob Khan
AURAT / WOMAN (Dir. Mehboob Khan, 1940, India) – Lost & Found
Aurat, a social melodrama, forms part of Mehboob’s period of filmmaking that saw him shift between the studio system of the 1930s and early 1940s before he went independent. He…
ROTI / BREAD (Dir. Mehboob Khan, 1942, India) – Iconoclastic Origins
Mehboob’s most political work? Released in 1942, Roti was director Mehboob Khan’s last film before he established his own production company. Given the film’s daring and at times iconoclastic critique…
AMAR (Dir. Mehboob Khan, India, 1954) – Expressionist Idiosyncrasies
Film maker Mehboob Khan reached his artistic zenith with Mother India in 1957 whilst his body of work in the 1940s…
