Imran Series is the best-selling series of Urdu spy novels written starting from 1955 until his death in 1980 by Ibn-e-Safi. [1] [2]
Both Doctor Dua-go and Jonk Ki Wapsi were published as a series of episodes in the Daily Hurriyat, and later published in the form of books by "Asrar Publications" (the regular publishers of Imran Series). Zehrili Tasveer and Bebakon Ki Talash were then written in the continuity of Jonk ki Wapsi and were published by the above in book form. For this reason, these books are numbered at the end, otherwise they should not be considered "out of continuity".
Ali Imran and Safdar Saeed were also featured in a Jasoosi Dunya novel, Zameen Ke Badal (#75). This was the only novel in which Safi brought Colonel Faridi and Imran together, but due to a highly heated response from fans, he never repeated the experiment.
Following is the complete list of 120 novels written by Ibn-e-Safi in Imran series. (Original number, original title (Roman), original title (Urdu), translated tile in parentheses, year first published.)
Roman Urdu is the name used for the Urdu language written with the Latin script, also known as the Roman script.
Mustansar Hussain Tarar S.I. is a Pakistani author, travel enthusiast, mountaineer, writer, novelist, columnist, TV host and former actor.
Ali Imran is a fictional character in various Urdu language detective novels written by Asrar Ahmed under the pseudonym of Ibn-e-Safi. He serves as the titular protagonist in the Imran Series novels. He is usually referred to only by his last name in the context of the novels.
Ibn-e-Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad, a fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. The word Ibn-e-Safi is an Arabic expression which literally means Son of Safi, where the word Safi means chaste or righteous. He first wrote from the British India of the 1940s, and later Pakistan after the independence of British India in 1947.
Jasoosi Dunya is a popular series of Urdu detective stories created by Ibne-Safi. Its first novel, Dilaer Mujrim was published in March 1952. In the following 27 years, Ibn-e-Safi wrote 127 books in the series with his last Jasoosi Dunya novel, Sehra'ee Deewana appearing in July 1979, a year before his death.
Ahmad Kamal Faridi is a fictional spy and crime-fighter, created by Ibn-e-Safi as the lead character of the Urdu spy novel series Jasoosi Dunya.
The following fictional characters are unofficial helpers to the spy and crime-fighter Colonel Faridi in the Jasoosi Dunya series of Urdu spy novels by Ibn-e-Safi.
A number of villains appear in Ibn-e-Safi's Jasoosi Dunya series.
Om Prakash was an Indian character actor. He was born in Jammu, as Om Prakash Chibber. He used to play the role of Kamla in the stage play by the famous Dewan Mandir Natak Samaj Jammu. Since his career began in 1942, he was a popular supporting actor from the 1950s until the 1980s. He also produced Jahanaara starring Bharat Bhushan, Shashikala, Prithviraj Kapoor and Mala Sinha in the title role of Jahanaara.
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Mahipal or was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema mostly in stunt films like Parasmani, Zabak, Cobra Girl, Jantar Mantar, Arabian nights themed movies such as Alibaba and 40 Thieves, Aladdin Aur Jadui Chirag, Roop Lekha, Sunehari Nagin, Hindu mythological movies like Sampoorna Ramayan, Ganesh Mahima, Veer Bhimsen, Jai Santoshi Maa. He is known for playing the iconic role of Lord Vishnu, and his two avatars, Lord Rama and Lord Krishna in lot of various puranic, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata Purana based movies, besides playing Tulsidas and Abhimanyu, and is also best known as the lead in V. Shantaram's Navrang (1959), and the songs "Tu Chhupi Hai Kahan Me Tadapta Yahan" and "Aadha Hai Chandrama Raat Aadhi". He acted in several well-known films of the 1950s and 1960s including V. Shantaram's Navrang (1959) and Babubhai Mistry's Parasmani (1963).
The Imran Series is an Urdu spy novel series created by famous Pakistani writer Ibn-e-Safi. Ali Imran is the pivotal character, a comical secret agent who controls the Secret Service as X-2 but appears to work as a normal member of the Secret Service. Except for a handful of people, no one knows his status as the chief of the Service.
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Mohan Choti was an Indian actor who worked as a comedian in Hindi films. The name Mohan Choti came from a fictional character of the same name from the 1957 film Musafir, in which he plays a tea shop delivery boy who sports a "choti" or traditional lock of hair on the top of his head.
Ishtiaq Ahmad, was a Pakistani fiction writer famous for his spy and detective novels in the Urdu language, particularly the Inspector Jamshaid series. He was born in Karnal now in India. Then his family migrated to city Jhang in Pakistan He was influenced by the Urdu fiction writer Ibn-e-Safi.
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