Very strange man : Ismat Chughtai ; translated from the original Urdu by Tahira Naqvi.

By:

Chughtai, Ismat, 1915-1991

Contributor(s):

Ismat Chughtai

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Urdu Publication details: New Delhi : Speaking Tiger 2018.Description: viii, 231 p. 21 cmISBN:

9789388070799

Subject(s):

Urdu fiction -- Translations into English

DDC classification:

891.43937 CHU

Online resources:

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Summary: This brilliant translation of Ismat Chughtai’s original Urdu novel Ajeeb Aadmi is the riveting story of Dharam Dev, the famous actor, director and producer, and his all-consuming and doomed passion for Zarina Jamal, the young dancer from Madras whom he brings to Bombay and transforms into a charismatic actress. He looks on in anguish as his betrayed wife, Mangala, a well-known playback singer, sinks slowly into alcoholism. When Zarina abandons him, he is overwrought and dies of an overdose, friendless and alone. In an interview, Chughtai described this novel about the Bombay film industry as a story based on the life of a producer-director who killed himself after the dancer he had made into a star left him in the lurch. ‘I go into why he commits suicide,’ she said, ‘why girls run after him and producers like him, and the hell they make for these men and for their wives.’ This irreverent, sharply observed narrative of infatuation and ambition is vintage Chugh.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	891.43937 CHU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K3044

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This brilliant translation of Ismat Chughtai’s original Urdu novel Ajeeb Aadmi is the riveting story of Dharam Dev, the famous actor, director and producer, and his all-consuming and doomed passion for Zarina Jamal, the young dancer from Madras whom he brings to Bombay and transforms into a charismatic actress. He looks on in anguish as his betrayed wife, Mangala, a well-known playback singer, sinks slowly into alcoholism. When Zarina abandons him, he is overwrought and dies of an overdose, friendless and alone.

In an interview, Chughtai described this novel about the Bombay film industry as a story based on the life of a producer-director who killed himself after the dancer he had made into a star left him in the lurch. ‘I go into why he commits suicide,’ she said, ‘why girls run after him and producers like him, and the hell they make for these men and for their wives.’

This irreverent, sharply observed narrative of infatuation and ambition is vintage Chugh.

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