Nikhat Kazmi (1958/59 – 20 January 2012) was a senior
correspondent
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and well-known film
critic
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from, born
Allahabad
Prayagraj (, ; ISO 15919, ISO: ), formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi, Varanasi (Benar ...
,
Uttar Pradesh
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, who had been writing for ''
The Times of India
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'' since 1987. She died of
breast cancer
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in 2012, at age 53.
Books
* ''If Shakespeare was a gun: a play''.
Writers Workshop, 1984.
* ''Ire in the soul: bollywood's angry years''. HarperCollins Publishers India, 1996. .
* ''The Dream Merchants of Bollywood''. UBS Publishers' Distribuors, 1998. .
* ''Times Guide to Hollywood Blockbusters''.
Times Group Books. .
* ''Times Movie Guide''. 2007,
Times Group Books. .
References
External links
Official site
1950s births
2012 deaths
Indian film critics
Indian women film critics
Indian women journalists
Indian reporters and correspondents
Deaths from breast cancer
Place of death missing
Date of birth missing
Journalists from Uttar Pradesh
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