One of the leading poets of Urdu, Gulzar is now turning his classics, on small and large screens, into novelettes.
The one published earlier this month in Pakistan is the script of his unforgettable TV serial, which reads like a piece of fiction.
It is the life history of Gulzar’s favourite and all-time great poet, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. The ghazals were set to tune by singer cum composer Jagjit Singh.
The videos of the TV serial and the audio CDs of the ghazals have been all time high. As everyone knows, the versatile actor Naseeruddin Shah lent authenticity to the role of Mirza Ghalib.
In a recent interview with an Indian daily, Shah said that even though he came from an Urdu-speaking family, his education at a high brow Christian missionary school narrowed his views on the language.
Danial has to its credit publications of such leading figures as Faiz, Sibte Hasan, Quratulain Hyder, Kaifi Azmi, Mushtaq Yusufi and Javed Akhtar, to name a few progressive poets and writers.
