29 July 2015, 05:30 am
Yeh Kahaan aa Gaye Hum (52 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)
Directed by Pankaj Butalia
Produced by Films Division
Dr. Mushtaque Sadaf, Sahitya Akademi will briefly introduce the work of Nida Fazli; and Pankaj Butalia will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
Nida Fazli is one of India’s well-known Urdu poets. Born in Gwalior from where his family left for Pakistan after the partition of India, Nida decided to stay behind and moved to Bombay to see if he could make his mark there as a poet. From the mid-seventies onwards, he has been recognised as one of the leading modernist voices in Urdu poetry. This film is a way to look at the man and his work