Ahmad Abbas
When adjusted for inflation, the first Indian film to gross an adjusted 100 crore was the 1940 film "Zindagi", directed by P.C. Barua and written by Javed Hussain. The first Indian film to gross an adjusted 100 crore overseas was the 1951 film "Awaara", directed by Raj Kapoor, written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and starring Raj Kapoor and Nargis, becoming a blockbuster in the Soviet Union.