Iqbal Durrani


Iqbal Durrani is an Indian writer, director, actor and producer of Hindi films.

Career

1988. Kaal Chakra 1st film of Iqbal Durrani dialogues of this movie was smash hit. It completed silver jubilee and audio cassette of dialogues were released.
1988. Mera Shikaar. Dimple Kapadia. Completed 100 days. <
1989 Khoj completed 100 days.
1989. Majboor. Jitendra & Sunny Deol. Silver Jubilee. audi cassette of dialogues was released. <
1989. Shiva. Nagarjun &Aamla. His first Hindi film. Silver Jubilee. Audio cassette of dialogues released.
1990. Shandaar. Mithun chakraborty. Completed 100 days.
1991. Izzat. Jackie Shroff & Silver Jubilee. Sangita Bijlani. Audio Cassette of dialogues were released.
1991. Muqadar Ka Badshah. Vinod Khanna & Shabana Azmi. Completed 100 days. Audio Cassette of Dialogues Released.
1991. Benaam Badshah. Anil Kapoor and Juhi chawla. Completed 100 days. Audio cassette of dialogues were released.
1991.Insaniyat Ke Devta. Rajkumar, 100 Days. Rajnikant & Jaya Prada.
1991. Zakhmi Aurat. Dimple Kapadia. Completed 100 days.
1991. Phool Aur Kaante. Ajay Devgan, & Madhu. First film of Ajay devgan. Golden jubilee hit. Remake in Tamil &Telugu.
1992. Dil Aashna Hai. Hema Malini, First film of Shahrukh Khan. Shahrukh Khan. & Divya Bharati.
1999. Kohram. Amitabh Bachchan & Nana Patekar.Completed 100 days. Dialogues became very popular of this movie.
In 1993 Iqbal Durrani turned into Direction of movies alongside writing it. As a writer he did more than 60 films until date most of them were highly successful.
As a Writer and Director.
1993. Dhartiputra. Jaya Prada, Rishi Kapoor & Mamooty.
1994. Khuddar. Govinda & Karishma kapoor Silver Jubilee. Audio Cassette of Dialogues Released.
1994. Betaj Badshah. Rajkumar & Shatrughan Sinha. Completed 100 days. Audio cassette of Dialogues Released.
2001. Mitti. Shravani Mukherjee & firdous. Hit In West Bengal. Ferdous Ahmed's first Hindi film.
2004. Dukaan Rambha & Semi-Hit. Vikas Kalantri Dubbed in Tamil.

Filmography

Debut actor/actress in Iqbal Durrani Films

He has released numerous literary dialogue audio cassettes.

Novelist

He wrote "Gandhi Se Pehle Gandhi" on the life of revolutionary tribal "Birsa Munda" of Jharkhand. Published in 2008, it was acclaimed both in the literary and the film world and was compared with Maxim Gorky's "Mother" by leading critics of Hindi literature.
He has been invited to speak on Bhagwan Mahavir's life & his teachings by various Jain organisations. It so happened that despite being a Muslim, he was invited inside of a Digambar Jain Temple to speak in front of Jain Priests on Bhagwan Mahavir. In a world where religion is used as a weapon he is trying to use it as a bridge to span the widening gap among the people.

Magnum Opus

He has been writing books and scripts with spiritual contents. At present, he is working on Bhagwan Shri Mahavir. Iqbal Durrani is the only person in the world to translate Samveda in Hindi and Urdu. He announced about it in Uttar Pradesh saying that he is currently working on it.

Social activist

Durrani is chairperson of the Human Rights Association, the Peace Committee and the Eyes Trust Mumbai.

Awards

He has received several awards for his social activities and writing, including:
In 2009, he politically ran against Lok Sabha, and lost by a small margin.