GHALIB KE KHAT (Play by Anis Azmi) February 8, 2009

Pierrot’s Troupe presents
Ghalib Ke Khat (Urdu-Hindi)
February 8 (Sun), 7pm, ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, 72 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi
Enactment & Direction : Anis Azmi
Duration: 1 hr

Ghalib Ke Khat is Pierrot’s Troupe’s latest production. With this, the troupe becomes a distinctive producer of three plays on Mirza Ghalib. The other two being Ghalib & Ghalib in New Delhi

The play is a dramatic presentation of personal letters that the great poet and personality Ghalib wrote to his friends, disciples, relatives and even government authorities. .

Ghalib was a prolific writer of letters. In fact, he was a “Man of Letters” in the truest sense of the word. His more than 800 letters do not only provide a unique insight into his life and life style, but are also a running commentary as well as a telling comment on day to day socio-political as well as cultural affairs of one of the most turbulent periods of Indian history.

The play uses a good number of these letters to the above-mentioned effect; painting, in the process, an “ordinary man of extraordinary wit and intelligence” and portraying an era that actually marked the end of an era and the beginning of another i.e. transformation of Mughol Hukumat into British Raj.

The play is presented by Anis Azmi, one of the pioneers of dramatic readings in India. The command of this theater veteran over the finer points of drama & diction makes him present Ghalib’s letters the way Ghalib meant them to be -- conversational and communicative.

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