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Kaifi and IShaukat Kaifi, Translated by Nasreen Rehman 250 pp Hb USD 8 ISBN 8189013750 -  Add To Cart
Shaukat Kaifi is a well respected theatre and film artiste who has essayed some memorable roles in a number of Hindi film from the 1940s to the 1980s including her last film, Mira Nair’s critically acclaimed Salaam Bombay based on the lives of Bombay’s street children. This memoir is a detailed account of the world of theatre and film that she knew so well and that her husband, Kaifi Azmi, noted Urdu poet and lyricist, was associated with. Married to Kaifi Azmi in 1947 during the freedom struggle, Shaukat Kaifi chronicles their courtship and marriage and their life in a commune in Bombay where they lived along with other members of the Communist Party of India like Comrade Mirza Ashfaq Beg, P.C. Joshi, Ali Sardar Jafri, Sajjad Zahir and Ismat Chughtai. It was at this time that she became interested in theatre and was active in the Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association (IPTA), Prithviraj Kapoor’s Prithvi Theatre as well as, like many others of her generation, the Progressive Writer’s Movement where she met poets like Sahir Ludhianvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri, and fiction writers such as Krishan Chander and Rajinder Singh Bedi. She acted in a number of well-known productions of those times like Naukarani ki Talash, Sara Sansar Apna Parivar, Shison ke Khilone and Shaid aap bhi Hansen. She also acted in a number of films like Garm Hawa and Umrao Jaan. Her daughter Shabana Azmi, noted actor, activist and MP, and her son Baba Azmi, celebrated cinematographer, are both closely associated with the Indian film industry. Shaukat Kaifi’s memoir, translated from the Urdu, is a fascinating glimpse into many worlds, all of which she knew intimately. Give your review [Top] |