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{{short description|Indian theatre and film director, playwright, and screenwriter}}
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''' Feroz Abbas Khan''' is an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter, who is most known for directing plays like [[Mughal-e-Azam (musical)|Mughal-e-Azam]], ''Saalgirah'', ''[[Tumhari Amrita]]'' (1992), ''Salesman Ramlal'' and ''Gandhi Viruddh Gandhi''.<ref>[http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/aug/03feroz.htm 'Gandhiji hasn't been portrayed negatively'] [[Rediff.com]] Movies, 3 August 2007.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Feroz-Khan/articleshow/30978069.cms|title=Feroz Khan|date=11 December 2002|work=Times of India}}</ref>

[[File:The Director, IFFI, Shri Shankar Mohan felicitating the Director, Feroz Abbas Khan, at the special screening of the film “Gandhi, My Father”, during the 42nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2011), in Panaji, Goa.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Khan being felicitated at [[International Film Festival of India|IFFI]] ([[42nd International Film Festival of India|2011]]) ]]

==Career==
He was the first artistic director of the [[Prithvi Theatre]] in [[Mumbai]] and in 1983 was head of the Prithvi Theatre Festival with [[Jennifer Kapoor]] and [[Akash Khurana]]. He started with productions like the early comedy ''All the Best'' and ''Saalgirah'' (1993), written by playwright [[Javed Siddiqui]] with [[Anupam Kher]] and [[Kirron Kher]], which incidentally became her first acting performance during her comeback after a sabbatical.<ref>[http://www.desimatch.com/desi-planet/desi-archive/magazine25b.html Once more, with feeling] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210062753/http://www.desimatch.com/desi-planet/desi-archive/magazine25b.html |date=10 December 2008 }}</ref> In 1992, American playwright and novelist, [[A. R. Gurney]]'s play ''[[Love Letters (play)|Love Letters]]'' was adapted to [[Urdu]] as [[Tumhari Amrita]] and given an Indian context by Javed Siddiqi. It was performed by veteran actors [[Shabana Azmi]] and [[Farooq Sheikh]] at the Jennifer Kapoor Festival in Prithvi theatre in February 1992 for the first time. For one-and-a-half hours, the actors read the letters describing the relationship between two friends Amrita and Zulfikar over a period of 35 years. For the next 21 years till [[Farooque Shaikh]]'s death in December 2013, this immensely successful play went on to tour many parts of the world including US, Europe and Pakistan.<ref>[http://www.screenindia.com/news/Writing-its-own-destiny/391453/ Writing its own destiny] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120911002033/http://www.screenindia.com/news/Writing-its-own-destiny/391453/ |date=11 September 2012 }} ''[[Screen (magazine)|Screen]]'', Namita Nivas, 28 November 2008.</ref>

Khan's production of [[Peter Shaffer]]'s satirical comedy, ''[[The Royal Hunt of the Sun]]'' and the contemporary Indian adaptation of [[Arthur Miller]]'s classic ''[[Death of a Salesman]]'', 'Salesman Ramlal' (1997), starring actor-director [[Satish Kaushik]] are important plays of [[Indian theatre]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121025001208/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-09-06/mumbai/28094753_1_satish-kaushik-salesman-ramlal-hindi-version Salesman Ramlal in Mumbai] [[The Times of India]], 6 September 2009.</ref><ref name=fin>[http://www.financialexpress.com/news/satish-kaushik-wants-to-extend-his-global-profile/518214/ Satish Kaushik wants to extend his "global profile"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814011027/http://www.financialexpress.com/news/satish-kaushik-wants-to-extend-his-global-profile/518214/ |date=14 August 2014 }} [[The Financial Express (India)|Financial Express]], 17 September 2009.</ref> Next came English theatre production of ''Mahatma v/s Gandhi'', based on relationship between [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and his son, [[Harilal Gandhi]].

In 2007, he made his film debut with ''[[Gandhi, My Father]]'', based on his one previous play, ''Mahatma vs Gandhi'', and opened to critical acclaim.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401834.html A Humanizing Portrait of the Man Indians Call 'Father'] ''[[Washington Post]]'', 15 August 2007.</ref> At the [[National Film Award (India)|National Film Award]], actor [[Darshan Zariwala]] won the [[National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor Award]], for his role of Gandhi, while the film itself won the [[National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Feature Film)|Special Jury Award]] and [[National Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]<ref name=tt>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121025093743/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-09-08/india/28101510_1_actor-award-nargis-dutt-award-feature-film National Film Awards: Southern films bag top honours] [[The Times of India]], 8 September 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=16647 Interview: Feroze Abbas Khan]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [[Screen (magazine)|Screen]], 3 August 2007.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2009/sep/r2009090707.pdf|title=55th NATIONAL FILM AWARDS FOR THE YEAR 2007|publisher=Press Information Bureau ([[Govt. of India]])}}</ref> and the Best Screenplay Award at the [[Asia Pacific Screen Awards]] and nominated for Grand Prix at Tokyo Film Festival.

Also in 2007, he added Abbas as his middle name to avoid confusion with [[Bollywood]] actor-director, [[Feroz Khan (actor, born 1939)|Feroze Khan]].<ref>[http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2007/jul/59678.htm The namesake] [[Mid-Day]], 10 July 2007."Theatre personality Feroz Khan, who makes his directorial debut with Gandhi My Father, has added Abbas to his name to avoid confusion"</ref>

While, his play, ''Salesman Ramlal'' was revived in 2009, with a more contemporary version, another classic, ''[[Tumhari Amrita]]'' was performed for no less than 21 years till December 2013 when main actor [[Farooque Shaikh]] died. The last show was held in the Taj Mahal, Agra.
<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121025001212/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-01-21/others/28019477_1_shabana-azmi-tumhari-amrita-audience Their letters won our hearts] [[The Times of India]], TNN 21 January 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/in-the-name-of-the-father/516233/ In The Name of the Father] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930065716/http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/in-the-name-of-the-father/516233/ |date=30 September 2012 }} [[Indian Express]], Ddebeshbanerjee, 12 September 2009.</ref>

In 2016, he directed [[Mughal-e-Azam (musical)|Mughal-e-Azam]], a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]-style [[Musical theatre|musical]] based on the 1960 [[Bollywood]] film ''[[Mughal-e-Azam]],'' which was directed by [[K. Asif]] and produced by Shapoorji Pallonji. The musical was produced jointly by [[Shapoorji Pallonji Group]] and the [[National Centre for the Performing Arts (India)]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.in/murtaza-ali-khan/mughal-e-azam-an-audacious-screen-to-stage-adaptation-of-the-k-asif-classic_a_23202128/|title='Mughal-e-Azam': An Audacious Screen-to-Stage Adaptation Of The K. Asif Classic|date=2017-09-12|work=HuffPost India|access-date=2018-05-22|language=en-IN}}</ref>

==Plays==
* ''Raunaq & Jassi''
* ''All the Best''
* ''Eva Mumbai Ma Chaal Jaiye''
* ''Saalgirah'' – [[Anupam Kher]] & [[Kirron Kher]]
* ''The Royal Hunt of the Sun''
* ''[[Tumhari Amrita]]'' (1992) – [[Shabana Azmi]] & [[Farooq Sheikh]]
* ''Mahatma vs Gandhi'' (1998)
* ''Salesman Ramlal'' (1999) – [[Satish Kaushik]]
* ''Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai'' – [[Anupam Kher]]
* ''Dinner With Friends'' (2011) ([[Tisca Chopra]], Vinay Jain, [[Joy Sengupta]] & [[Perizaad Zorabian]] Irani)

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100113024439/http://www.ferozkhan.com/fz_feroz.htm Feroz Khan, Official Webpage]
* {{IMDb name|2073234}}

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