Kamaal Amrohi
A commemorative postage stamp on Kamal Amrohi, an Indian Hindi film director and screenwriter, winner of Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Mughal-e-Azam (1961) [a part of the series ‘100 Years of Indian Cinema‘] :
Issued by India
Issued on May 3, 2013
Credits :
Stamp & FDC : Kamleshwar Singh
Cancellation : Nenu Gupta
Type : Miniature Sheet, Mint Condition
Colour : Multi colour
Denomination : 500 Paisa
Printing Process : Wet Offset
Printer : Security Printing Press, Hyderabad
Name : Syed Amir Haider Kamal Naqvi
Born on Jan 17, 1918 at Amroha, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India [now in Uttar Pradesh]
Died on Feb 11, 1993 at Bombay, Maharashtra, India
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