GHALIB (*ing TOM ALTER & Others) March 2, 2012

PIERROT'S TROUPE (Delhi) Presents

GHALIB (Urdu- Hindi Musical, *ing TOM ALTER & 15 more)
MARCH 2 (Fri) 7 pm: Duration- 1.45hrs: Y B CHAVAN Auditorium,
Jagannath Bhosale Marg (Opp Mantralaya), Mumbai
Featuring – Tom Alter, Hareesh Chhabbra, Niti Phool,
Anju Chabbra, Ram N Diwakar, Yashpal Malik,
Vijaya Rathore, Manohar Pandey, Ekant Kaul, Himanshu Srivastava,
M Sayeed Alam, Shakeel Anwar, Pankaj Mata, Pulkit Sharma, Surabhi Pandey, Baby Smriti, Baby Elnaaz, Manohar Pandey, Baby Aqsa etc.

A Yusuf and Farida Hamied Foundation Initiative
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This play is a lively, entertaining and educative account of an intriguing man named Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib -- a master yet a rundown poet, a privileged yet a pitiable elite, an extravagant yet a poor noble, a devout yet a self effacing lover, an irreverent yet a pious husband and a self-seeking yet an altruistic person.

This is what one comes across while watching in the play the 70 year old Ghalib (Tom Alter) narrating the memoirs of his life to his first biographer Maulana Altaf Hussein Hali. He in his inimitable style, laced with humor and satire, takes Hali and audiences to an array of scenes depicting Ghalib the talented child; Ghalib the carefree young man; Ghalib the mature middle aged: His wife (Umrao Begum), a God fearing lady wedded to man who defied God: His family that got reduced to two from seven in a very short span of time: His deranged brother, shot dead as a rebel by Britons in 1857: His devout servants, twenty one in total: His lady love (Mughol Jan), who committed suicide: His futile attempts to secure a dignified position in Mughol Darbar, and also the professorship in Delhi College: His contemporaries – virtually a long list – From Mir Taqi Mir to Momin and from Sir Ross to Col. Burn etc. In the process, he dispels myths (which still persist) about his rivalry with Ustad Zauq; about his love for wine and women, about his role in the first war of independence etc. At the core of the play are Ghalib’s Ghazals (recited, sung and performed); including a good number of them hitherto unheard.

Last but not the least, the play is a Pierrot’s Troupe production--- the theater company credited with successfully re-discovering the genre of ‘bio (graphical) drama’: Maulana Azad, K.L.Saigal, Begum Akhtar, Ghalib, Ghalib in New Delhi, Raja Nahar Singh, Sons of Babur etc.

Tickets: Rs 500 / 300 / 200 & 100, available at the VENUE from Feb 27 & on show days & at RHYTHM HOUSE, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, (Ph: 43222701) from Feb 20.
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