Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.115

v2.c11.115

The relation of Indian films with China dated back to the Anti-Japanese War period. In 1944, when Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, an Indian novelist and screenwriter, learned that doctor Dwarkanath Kotnis died fighting the invading army in China, he wrote the novel *And One Did Not last Come Back* and adapted it into a screenplay, *The Journey of Dr. Kotnis*. The film made the heroic deeds of Dwarkanath Kotnis and the difficult Anti-Japanese War of Chinese people well-known among Indian people.