Manju Qamaraidullāhī

Manju Qamar Yadullāhī (1908–1983) was a Urdu dramatist, playwright and a poet, born in Channapatna, Karnataka state of India and established his career in Hyderabad Deccan. He wrote various plays in Urdu of social and historical importance. Most of his plays were staged at the Ravindra Bharti, the center of performing arts in Hyderabad, AP. During the reign of the Nizam the 7th of Hyderabad Deccan he staged various plays and one of his plays was honoured by the Nizam as the guest. Some of his plays were broadcast by All India Radio's Hyderabad station in their primetime Urdu feature Navrang, in the early 1980s his drama Bhadur Shah Zafar became the first Urdu drama to be broadcast in three episodes by All India Radio, Hyderabad.