An ethereal experience.......spell binding beautiful.
I went based on the radio ads that I'd been hearing, not really knowing what to expect. It holds you spell bound from get go.
It's hard to describe what it was.... play, mehfil, shaayari, story telling, ghazals.....it seemed to have all elements exquisitely interwoven, to create a tapestry of an intense love story between two fascinating people.
It's the story of Kaifi and Shaukat, Shabana Azmi's parents.....their true story...rendered by Shabana, Javed Akhtar and Jaswinder Singh.
Through the narrative and the ghazals, you touch their honesty, courage, grit, humour, challenges, elevated thinking, grief and above all love.
The narration begins with how Kaifi grew up in a household obsessed with Shayari, and wrote from the age of 11. "Itna toh zindagi mein kisi ke khalal pade"...a nazm immortalized by Begum Akthar. Tumhari zulf ke saaye mein ....Itna jo muskurarahe ho...Tum jo milgaya ho....beautifully sung by Jaswinder sing.
Yesterday when mom asked why I hadn't written about it, I could only say "It was so intense ma, I think I'm yet processing". And even now I see that I'm unable to do justice. This is one experience that needs to be only 'experienced'.
Some pics: I hardly took any, and even these are bad, but just to get a feel of how the stage was set:
A two minute clip of one of the songs:
And not just me, I'd think most of the audience felt it, going by the spontaneous standing ovation it evoked when it ended, everyone just kept standing and clapping ....almost like not wanting to let go.
Some pics: I hardly took any, and even these are bad, but just to get a feel of how the stage was set:
A two minute clip of one of the songs:
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