Bhagwati Charan Verma was one of the leading writers in Hindi. He wrote many novels, his best work was Chitralekha, which was made into two successful Hindi films, 1941 and 1964. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his epic five-part novel, Bhoole Bisre Chitra in 1961 and Padma Bhushan in 1971.