Arun Kaul was a noted Kashmiri

Kashmiri people

The Kashmiri people are a Dardic linguistic group living in Kashmir Valley in Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and parts of the Pakistani territory of Azad Kashmir who speak the Kashmiri language...

 film maker and screenwriter. His film Diksha

Diksha (film)

Diksha is 1991 Hindi film directed by Arun Kaul and his only feature. The film is based on a novella by eminent Kannada writer U. R...

 (1991), won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie

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 for the year 1992 .

He was the screenplay assistant to veteran filmmaker Gulzar

Gulzar (lyricist)

Sampooran Singh Kalra , known popularly by his pen name Gulzar , is an Indian poet, lyricist and director. He primarily writes in Hindi-Urdu and has also written in Punjabi and several dialects of Hindi such as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli, Haryanvi and Marwari.Gulzar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in...

, for the films Ijaazat

Ijaazat

Ijaazat is an acclaimed 1987 Indian Hindi film directed by Gulzar, based on a Bengali story, Jatugriha by Subodh Ghosh....

(1987) and Lekin

Lekin

Lekin is a Hindi drama film made in 1991, loosely based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore, and directed by Hindi lyricist Gulzar...

(1990).

He also wrote screenplay for the film Yash Chopra

Yash Chopra

Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...

's Chandni

Chandni

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 (1989). He produced a film named Ek Adhuri Kahani

Ek Adhuri Kahani

Ek Adhuri Kahani is 1972 Hindi language movie directed by Mrinal Sen and starring Utpal Dutt, Shekhar Chatterjee, Vivek Chatterjee, Aarti Bhattacharya, Shyam, Shobha Sen. It was based on a Bengali story, Gotranta by Subodh Ghosh....

 directed by Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...

, a bengali film maker in 1972.

Kaul, 74, died on 21 July 2007, New Delhi.

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