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Ved Rahi
Indian author (1933–2026)
Ved Rahi (22 May 1933 – 1 November 2026) was an Indian author predominantly writing in Dogri language. He directed well received mythological serial Meerabai for Doordarshan in 1996 under UTV productions. Rahi was also credited with screenplay and dialogues of various Hindi Bollywood films and TV serials. He directed the Hindi film Veer Savarkar (2001), a bio-epic on the life of Indian revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
Background
Rahi was born in Jammu on 22 May 1933. His father, Mulk Raj Saraf started the first newspaper in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir titled Ranbir in 1924.
Rahi died on 1 November 2026, at the age of 93.
Works
Rahi published various short stories in Dogri language and along with Narendra Khajuria, Madan Mohan Sharma and Prof. Nilamber Dev Sharma, is considered as a noted Dogri writer of modern times.
His books have been translated to various other Indian languages. Translation of Lal Ded in Sindhi language (by Sarita Sharma as Lal Ded (2015) and by Rattan Lal Shant as Lal Ded (2015)) and of Aale in Kashmiri language (by Abdul Gani Beg Athar as Lakhakar Yin Vaapas (2010)) have also received Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in Sindhi and Kashmiri categories respectively.
Film
1966 – Yeh Raat Phir Na Aayegi as screenplay writer
1970 – Pavitra Paapi as dialogues and screenplay writer
1971 – Aap Aye Bahaar Ayee as writer
1971 – Pavitra Paapi as screenplay writer
1972 – Be-Imaan as dialogues writer
1972 – Mome Ki Gudiya as dialogues writer
1973 – Prem Parbat as director
1975 – Sanyasi as dialogues writer
1976 – Charas as dialogues writer
1980 – Kali Ghata as director, producer and writer
1982 – Bezubaan as dialogues writer
2001 – Veer Savarkar as director, writer
Books
Kaale Hatthe – Novel
Garbh Joon – Novel
Lal Ded – Novel
Aale – Novel
Ik Journalist di Aatamkatha – Biography of Mulk Raj Saraf
Haad Bedi Te Pattan – Novel
Andhi Surang – Novel
Ek Tha Chitrakaar, Ek Tha Raja – Short stories
Maut – Short stories
Soch
Television
Gul Gulshan Gulfaam Doordarshan
Zindagi: (1987)
Meerabai: Doordarshan
Awards
1983 – Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Dogri for this short stories collection Aale.
2011 – Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award (Award presented in 2014)
2019 – Kusumagraj Rashtriya Sahitya Puraskar