zahoor ka hotal : details
We previously mentioned about play "zahoor ka hotal", now we have more details :
LONDON, 14 March, 2005 – Actors of Indian and Pakistani origin in the UK have formed an alliance to stage a play that touches upon a number of controversial issues dividing the Asian community in the UK. Desi Canvas, the UK-based Theatre group, announced a new play in Urdu, ZAHOOR KA HOTAL, on growing up in a communally divided city of northern India,
Aligarh.
For play related queries: desicanvas@gmail.com
Zahoor's blog: <<http://zahoorkahotal.blogspot.com/>>
To be staged at the Watermans Arts Centre in Brentford, Thursday 14th – Sunday 17th April 2005 at 7.45 pm, ZAHOOR KA HOTAL is the third major production of Desi Canvas since the organisation was launched seven ago by Britain's leading theatre activists and broadcasters in order to promote quality theatre in Hindi & Urdu. However, the recent reports of gagging the freedom of speech in the Asian community led the actors to forge and strengthen the front against all forms of censorship.
Pervaiz Alam dedicates his new play, Zahoor ka Hotal, to Shahnaz Hashmi & Moin Ehsan Jazbi, two amazing teachers at the AMU Aligarh, who have died recently. "Shahnaz Apa was simply brilliant with those who were even remotely interested in theatre and arts. Incredibly refined and an amazing human being, Shanaz Apa aka Beebi, was an eternal romantic with a great style but without any luck," says Pervaiz. "Jazbi Sahib was among the greatest Urdu poets that Aligarh has produced. Even at the age of 80, he looked so vulnerable when I went to interview him at his residence in the late 90s. To my disbelief, he started crying in the middle of the interview the moment I asked him about his childhood. His step-mother used to torture him!" Pervaiz adds.
JAZBI
Har manzil thi dil ki manzil, jab dil ko gham-e-manzil na raha,
har koocha koocha-e-jaanaN thha, jab koocha-e-jaanaN bhool gaye
Here's another gem:
Jab Kashti saabit-o-saalim thi, saahil ki tamanna kis ko thi,
ab aisi shikasta kashti par saahil ki tamanna kaun karey!
Play:
The story is about a British Muslim of Indian origin, Kabeer, who is in love with Kavita, a British Hindu.
Kabeer, a British Muslim of Indian origin, is in love with Kavita, a British Hindu.
However, she's also married to Rajesh!
This is the beginning of an intriguing story in Zahoor ka Hotal, a play set in central London which takes us to Aligarh, just 150km away from India's capital Delhi. How? The answer lies some where at Zahoor's doorstep in a communally divided city.
Failed writers, out-of-work artists, pimps, eunuchs, activists and students converged at Zahoor's for hours of heated discussions on sex, politics, religion and music in the 1970s. But what Kabeer remembers best, now living in dark and dreary London, is listening to Binaca Geetmala on Zahoor's grand old radio.
The show, hosted by the legendary broadcaster Amin Sayani, opened the door to many debates, arguments and ideas that shaped Kabeer's way of looking at the world. Even when Aligarh was engulfed by a raging conflict between Hindus and Muslims, Zahoor ka Hotal was an island, where the differences of everyday life could be put aside.
Zahoor ka Hotal is the second play in the Nostalgia trilogy by Pervaiz Alam. Safar was performed at Watermans in 2002.
Badi Uzzaman plays the character of Zahoor. Badi's latest stage role was in Guantanamo, a highly acclaimed play by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo. Come and see 25 actors, musicians and dancers as they celebrate growing up in the 1970s.
CAST: Badi Uzzaman, Rajesh Joshi, Anwarul Hasan, Salman Asif, Nivedita Sen Gupta, Seema Anand, Suniti Singh, Agha Zakriya, Mohd Sajid and Bhawani Shankar.
Special Zahoor ka Hotal Binaca Geetmala has been recorded by none other than the legendary Ameen sayani himself in his voice. Mr Sayani is based in India's commercial capital Mumbai and runs his own studio.
Thursday 14th - Sunday 17th April 2005 at 7.45 pm
Watermans Arts Centre, 40 High Street, Brentford
TW8 0DS
Tickets: £10 (£8)
Box Office on 020 8232 1010
For play related queries: desicanvas@gmail.com
Zahoor's blog: <<http://zahoorkahotal.blogspot.com/>>
... and if you were surprised to hear about ameen sayani and want to relive the experience; go to his website
http://www.ameensayani.com/
and who can forget jazbi, you may know him by this ghazal :
listen to the ghazal sung by Habib Wali Mohammad here : courtsey of pakistanimusic.com
LONDON, 14 March, 2005 – Actors of Indian and Pakistani origin in the UK have formed an alliance to stage a play that touches upon a number of controversial issues dividing the Asian community in the UK. Desi Canvas, the UK-based Theatre group, announced a new play in Urdu, ZAHOOR KA HOTAL, on growing up in a communally divided city of northern India,
Aligarh.
For play related queries: desicanvas@gmail.com
Zahoor's blog: <<http://zahoorkahotal.blogspot.com/>>
To be staged at the Watermans Arts Centre in Brentford, Thursday 14th – Sunday 17th April 2005 at 7.45 pm, ZAHOOR KA HOTAL is the third major production of Desi Canvas since the organisation was launched seven ago by Britain's leading theatre activists and broadcasters in order to promote quality theatre in Hindi & Urdu. However, the recent reports of gagging the freedom of speech in the Asian community led the actors to forge and strengthen the front against all forms of censorship.
Pervaiz Alam dedicates his new play, Zahoor ka Hotal, to Shahnaz Hashmi & Moin Ehsan Jazbi, two amazing teachers at the AMU Aligarh, who have died recently. "Shahnaz Apa was simply brilliant with those who were even remotely interested in theatre and arts. Incredibly refined and an amazing human being, Shanaz Apa aka Beebi, was an eternal romantic with a great style but without any luck," says Pervaiz. "Jazbi Sahib was among the greatest Urdu poets that Aligarh has produced. Even at the age of 80, he looked so vulnerable when I went to interview him at his residence in the late 90s. To my disbelief, he started crying in the middle of the interview the moment I asked him about his childhood. His step-mother used to torture him!" Pervaiz adds.
JAZBI
Har manzil thi dil ki manzil, jab dil ko gham-e-manzil na raha,
har koocha koocha-e-jaanaN thha, jab koocha-e-jaanaN bhool gaye
Here's another gem:
Jab Kashti saabit-o-saalim thi, saahil ki tamanna kis ko thi,
ab aisi shikasta kashti par saahil ki tamanna kaun karey!
Play:
The story is about a British Muslim of Indian origin, Kabeer, who is in love with Kavita, a British Hindu.
Kabeer, a British Muslim of Indian origin, is in love with Kavita, a British Hindu.
However, she's also married to Rajesh!
This is the beginning of an intriguing story in Zahoor ka Hotal, a play set in central London which takes us to Aligarh, just 150km away from India's capital Delhi. How? The answer lies some where at Zahoor's doorstep in a communally divided city.
Failed writers, out-of-work artists, pimps, eunuchs, activists and students converged at Zahoor's for hours of heated discussions on sex, politics, religion and music in the 1970s. But what Kabeer remembers best, now living in dark and dreary London, is listening to Binaca Geetmala on Zahoor's grand old radio.
The show, hosted by the legendary broadcaster Amin Sayani, opened the door to many debates, arguments and ideas that shaped Kabeer's way of looking at the world. Even when Aligarh was engulfed by a raging conflict between Hindus and Muslims, Zahoor ka Hotal was an island, where the differences of everyday life could be put aside.
Zahoor ka Hotal is the second play in the Nostalgia trilogy by Pervaiz Alam. Safar was performed at Watermans in 2002.
Badi Uzzaman plays the character of Zahoor. Badi's latest stage role was in Guantanamo, a highly acclaimed play by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo. Come and see 25 actors, musicians and dancers as they celebrate growing up in the 1970s.
CAST: Badi Uzzaman, Rajesh Joshi, Anwarul Hasan, Salman Asif, Nivedita Sen Gupta, Seema Anand, Suniti Singh, Agha Zakriya, Mohd Sajid and Bhawani Shankar.
Special Zahoor ka Hotal Binaca Geetmala has been recorded by none other than the legendary Ameen sayani himself in his voice. Mr Sayani is based in India's commercial capital Mumbai and runs his own studio.
Thursday 14th - Sunday 17th April 2005 at 7.45 pm
Watermans Arts Centre, 40 High Street, Brentford
TW8 0DS
Tickets: £10 (£8)
Box Office on 020 8232 1010
For play related queries: desicanvas@gmail.com
Zahoor's blog: <<http://zahoorkahotal.blogspot.com/>>
... and if you were surprised to hear about ameen sayani and want to relive the experience; go to his website
http://www.ameensayani.com/
and who can forget jazbi, you may know him by this ghazal :
listen to the ghazal sung by Habib Wali Mohammad here : courtsey of pakistanimusic.com
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