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008			070929s2007 ii 000 1 eng
010			_a 2007431910
020			_a9789388070799
025			_aI-E-2007-431910; 25
037			_cRs.399.00
040			_c,
041	1		_aeng _hurd
042			_alcode
082			_a891.43937 CHU
100	1		_aChughtai, Ismat, _d1915-1991.
245	1	2	_aVery strange man : _cIsmat Chughtai ; translated from the original Urdu by Tahira Naqvi.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bSpeaking Tiger _c2018.
300			_aviii, 231 p. _c21 cm.
500			_aTRP40/06 Rs.399/-
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aUrdu fiction -- Translations into English.
700	1		_aIsmat Chughtai.
856			_uhttps://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/shop/fiction/a-very-strange-man/
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