(Particular writing on the event of Ghalib’s one hundred and fifty fifth start anniversary)
Abul Hasan Naghmi is the best fiction author of Urdu Saadat Hasan Manto However in his e book ‘Saadat Hasan Manto: Papers Based mostly on Private Memoirs’, he writes that ‘Manto Sahib had a robust emotional attachment to Ghalib. Typically he liked Ghalib a lot that he used to abuse him out of affection, these abuses weren’t obscene, he referred to as Ghalib ‘bastard’ out of affection.’
Minto has all the time been Mirza Ghalib Love and devotion. In certainly one of his fictions, ‘Artist Individuals’, a personality of Minto says regarding Ghalib: ‘Who else however Ghalib can categorical human feelings?’
Minto’s affiliation with Ghalib can also be revealed within the titles of his books, together with ‘Zahmat-i-Mehr-i-Darakhshan’ and ‘Nimrod-ki Khudai’. Other than these, Minto derived the names of many topics and legends from Ghalib’s verses.
Not solely this, Minto has left no less than six writings on Ghalib. Shams-ul-Haq Osmani has included 5 of them in his e book Ghalib and Manto: ‘Ghalib and Authorities Job,’ ‘The Lifetime of Mirza Nowsha in Agra,’ ‘Mirza Ghalib’s Invitation to Hashmat Khan’s Home,’ ‘Galib, Fourteenth and Heshmat Khan,’ ‘Mirza Nowsha and Fourteenth.’
However aside from these, there’s an inscription on Ghalib by Manto, ‘Qarad ki peete thaye me…’. On this story, Minto describes a case of defaulting on Ghalib. The choose of the case is Ghalib’s pal Mufti Sadruddin Azarda.
Other than all this, clearly Minto additionally wrote the script of the movie ‘Gaalb’. The script, which Minto might have offered to Sohrab Modi when he got here to Pakistan from Bombay, has not survived, so it can’t be mentioned that its story was written by the filmmaker and the dialogue author of the movie and an Urdu script. And the way a lot the epic novelist Rajendra Singh Bedi might need modified later.
However the story of this movie appears to be derived from Minto’s three epics, ‘Mirza Nowsha Aur Chudhuwe’, ‘Mirza Ghalib’s Invitation to Hashmat Khan’s Home’, ‘Ghalib, Chudhuwe and Heshmat Khan’.
Minto mentions this script in no less than 4 verses within the identify of Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi. In a single letter he writes:
‘The story is that I’m going to put in writing a movie fiction on Ghalib. Some supplies I’ve collected, and a few are but to be collected. I hope the fiction might be attention-grabbing. I’ll hold this to myself.’
The insistence on secrecy exhibits how essential the challenge was to Minto. He did not need anybody else to get wind of it and take the thought away.
Ghalib and Minto had been very several types of artists. Ghalib was an inhabitant of the world of concepts, his poetic world has had little reference to the issues of the widespread world. They make the topic of most summary ideas and convey earth and sky, non-existence and existence, man and universe into the hinges in a single motion.
In distinction, Minto is an artist residing on earth. Summary and symbolic literature had begun in his time, and Minto himself has tried to put in writing on this fashion for some time, however his basic core is to point out the realities hidden within the darkness of human internal life. To focus on within the gentle of occasions and accidents.
As if to oversimplify, it may be mentioned that Ghalib’s theme is creativeness, ka manto jeeti jagati zenida.
Maybe it was this distinction and distinction in temper and tone that Minto was drawn to them like reverse poles of a magnet.
Nonetheless, there’s additionally a similarity, i.e. ‘Qarad ki Could’. Each Ghalib and Minto had been consumed by this dependancy all through their lives.
Movie script
The script of the movie is predicated on Minto’s story ‘Mirza Nowsha Aur Chudhva’. Many individuals who learn Minto might not even have heard of this legend. This fable isn’t, nor ought to or not it’s, among the many in style myths of Minto. The environment is uninteresting, the dialogues are uninteresting and the story is lifeless. Minto appears to have written it very rapidly, and possibly in a single sitting, and didn’t also have a likelihood to revise it later.
The story of the story is similar because the film ‘Galab’. Just like the movie, the principle character of this story is a prostitute ‘Chudhwe’ who’s loopy regarding Ghalib’s phrases. Ghalib involves his room by likelihood, however Chaudhu does not know that this younger man is definitely Ghalib. Ghalib additionally enjoys Nochi’s ignorance and leaves his ghazal sheet with him. And that is it. The story ends right here.
The modesty of the fiction is as an alternative, however the query is why Minto selected the function of a prostitute to put in writing on Ghalib, however much more than that, why does the prostitute ‘hang-out’ Minto?
The reply to this query isn’t tough. Simply as ladies use cleaning milk or cleaning lotion to take away make-up from their face, Minto makes use of the function of prostitutes as a make-up remover to take away the layers from the face of the society and attempt to deliver out its true type. are Together with wrinkles like crow’s ft within the corners of the eyes, pimples on the cheeks, and pimples on the nostril. Wherein he has additionally achieved important success.
So, in response to Intizar Hussain, following ‘Amrao Jaan Ada’, essentially the most highly effective feminine character in Urdu literature is ‘Hatak’. Other than this, Sultana from ‘Kali Shalwar’, ‘Zeenat’ from ‘Babu Gopinath’, Mimi from ‘Mummy’, and lots of different full of life and memorable characters of prostitutes are present in Minto.
So Minto really needed to put in writing regarding human hypocrisy, greed, deceit, hypocrisy and above all fraud. And what place will be higher than the brothel of prostitutes the place all these unhealthy issues change into a unclean drain?
Then once more, the caste of prostitutes itself can also be a set of opposites, certainly one of which Minto himself identified, however aside from that, there are additionally conflicts, conflicts and contradictions inside it. Relatively, in a way, prostitution itself is an embodied battle and a transferring manifestation. It is for that reason that Minto tried to make clear Ghalib’s life via his lens.
Minto wrote in a letter to Qasmi that ‘I do not know what I’m studying regarding Ghalib.’ Maybe it was throughout this analysis that Minto got here throughout the point out of ‘Satam Prosad Domini’ in a letter from Ghalib. Minto might need chanted ‘hiptala’ as quickly as he learn this, as a result of it was the important thing with which he may attempt to unlock Ghalib’s life.
That is what Minto has achieved in his three novels and movie script.
The movie Ghalib took a very long time to make. Lastly, when the movie was launched in 1954, it had been seven years since Minto got here to Pakistan. The movie was not launched in Pakistan, so Minto didn’t get an opportunity to see it, however he actually wished he may go to Amritsar to see the movie.
Ahmad Rahi has written that Minto instructed me, ‘I need to see that Bedi has achieved my screenplay Naal Ki Keeta Ae.’
Sadly, life didn’t enable Minto to go to Amritsar, nor to observe this movie, and he handed away on January 1955.
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2024-06-26 08:56:40
