The writer who came a distant second was a gentleman Akram Allahabadi with his Superintendent Khan and Inspector Balay series. Some connoisseurs of detective fiction, fearful of the Ibn-e-Safi.
Khan,When i saw your thread, i was extremely happy to see your comment. I would like to introduce myself. I am the grand daughter of the great novelist you are talking about, late Janab Akram Allahabadi. I was surfing in order to make an analysis of who all still remember my grand father for what he was. If you were a good fan of him like so many others i have encountered, then you'd be glad to know that today our family is organizing an 'Akram Allahabadi awar show' through Mashooque foundation for urdu poets novelist in order to show appreciation and promote urdu language. It is being held in bombay.
I'd also like to invite all the 'Akram allahabadi fans to talk about him and remember him so i get an idea of how my grand father was actually known. As we are working on a biography for him, i'd like to hear more about him through his fans.
Please invite all your friends and family who have read my grand father's novels, so we can all talk about his intriguing work.Thanks again for remembering my 'Nana' f and appreciating his great work.He was truly a great novelist as well as an exceptionally great human being.
ا کرم الہآبادی صاحب کی مشہور ناول جنکشن بلارا'Junction Bilara' was late Akram Allahabadi sahab's famous novel penned nearly half-a-century ago.It was a rage in the era. The story centred around the mysterious train that arrived on a particular day at Bilara town where fear ruled, and everyone got themselves shut at the moment.The signal woul d fall on its own, the train seem to come from nowhere, and then disappeared, leaving no trail. The railway walas had no idea about its track movement.There'd be no staff at the desolate railway station, but the sound of whistles and gongs reverberated and was heard across the town when the train arrived, and left Junction Bilara.It was rumoured that it was the train of the dead-those who had died in a railway mishap years ago, operated it, a sort of ghost train.Whoever saw it, died.After the first detective sent to crack the case died, comes the heroes Inspector Madhulkar and his assistant Raazi. It was not at all a ghost story, but spy fiction.
Like Ibn-e-Safi's 'Sholay' series, 'King Chang' or 'Bogha', Junction Bilara was also a cult novel.