I felt that the commentary was not relevant to the context of this story so it felt very superficial to me in spite of the strong words which wowed a lot of audience members. In spite of my few lessons in Urdu m any years back I found it a little difficult to keep up with what was being said especially when Begum Jaan commented on the India during pre-independence times and the difference in political leadership now and then. It also makes a comment in passing on the politics of pre-independence and post-independence In dia.īegum Jaan, being a classical singer from Lucknow (and of course, Javed Siddiqi being the writer), the language of the play was heavy on Urdu. and the interpersonal relationship of these three characters. Thankfully, I had booked online because the show was completely sold out! Apparently, so was the later show!!īegum Jaan, is a simple story of this extremely famous classical singer of yesteryear (popularly known as “Beg um Jaan” played by Nadira Zaheer Babbar) and her twenty something grand-daughter Zarina (Juhi Babbar) and journalist Sanjay Pande (Anup Soni) who wants to write Begum Jaan’s biography. So finally, when the Good Friday week-end came I booked myself for Begum Jaan which was being played at Prithvi as a part of Ekjute Festival. There were a lot of shows which I had marked as “I want to watch” but could not be watched for some reason or the other. I had a dry spell as regards watching plays for last two months.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |