Cinemaazi celebrates writer-filmmaker B R Ishara on his death anniversary.

 Cinemaazi celebrates writer-filmmaker B R Ishara on his death anniversary. He was born as Roshan Lal Sharma and popularly are known as Babu in Himachal Pradesh's Una district. He ran away from home as a teenager to Bombay and started doing odd jobs in film studios. He started his film career as a tea boy and gradually climbed the later to a writer and eventually a director with Insaaf ka Mandir (1969). He assisted Basu Bhattacharya in Teesri Kasam (1966), wrote the dialogues of Dulal Guha's hinterland hit Dharti Kahe Pukar Ke (1969) but became a much-discussed and debated figure after writing and directing Chetna (1970), the story of a young man falling in love and marrying a sex worker. Milap (1972) was another bold movie by him. The writer-director gave breaks to a long list of newcomers: Anil Dhawan (Chetna, 1970), Parveen Babi (Charitra, 1973), Reena Roy (Zaroorat, 1972), Raj Kiran (Kaagaz Ki Nao, 1975) and several others. 
In Ek Nazar (1972), he also directed Amitabh Bachchan before the actor found big success. Cricket lovers would also recall Test all-rounder Salim Durrani working for him in Charitra.
He got married in 1984 to Rehana Sultan. Ishara died from tuberculosis on 25 July 2012 in Mumbai.