other producers, films directed by him for Children’s Film Society, Short Films written, produced and directed by him for his own Naya Sansaar Trust , short Films written and directed by him for Films Division, short films written and directed by him for National Education and Information Films, Television films produced and directed by him for T.V. Centre, Bombay, films produced by other producers for whom Abbas wrote the stories and screen plays etc. Abbas not only produced and directed films but himself wrote incessantly on Indian Cinema and his experiments with the silver screen. He began writing as a film critic while working with the Bombay Chronicle. He took up writing scripts, direction and production of films as a challenge which was thrown at him when someof the producers and directors felt uncomfortable with his forthright criticism of their films.

To him, like journalism, cinema was also a passion. He made films to prove something. He wrote scripts and screenplays to convey a message. He directed films to raise some issue. The films of Abbas were never box office hits but they brought him laurels at national and international film festivals in the form of several prizes and awards. After completing his education at Aligarh Muslim University, Abbas joined the Bombay Chronicle in 1935. He occasionally served as a film critic, but after the film critic of the paper died, he was made the editor of the film section. Interestingly in 1939, K. A. Abbas wrote a letter to Gandhi urging him to reconsider his