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A Very Strange Man

by Ismat Chughtai
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Publisher Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd & Women Unlimited
Synopsis ‘In this novel, Chughtai—whose reputation as a celebrated and controversial icon of Urdu fiction rivalled Manto’s—told the story of the Bombay film world of the ’50s. There hadn’t been a more dramatic and candid account of the tangled emotional lives of Bollywood before this. There hasn’t been another since.’—Jerry Pinto 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 Chughtai.

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Binding: PaperBack
About the author इस्मत चुग़ताई (जन्म: 21 अगस्त 1915-निधन: 24 अक्टूबर 1991) उर्दू साहित्य की सर्वाधिक विवादास्पद और सर्वप्रमुख लेखिका थीं, उन्हें ‘इस्मत आपा’ के नाम से भी जाना जाता है। उन्होंने आज से करीब 70 साल पहले पुरुष प्रधान समाज में स्त्रियों के मुद्दों को स्त्रियों के नजरिए से कहीं चुटीले और कहीं संजीदा ढंग से पेश करने का जोखिम उठाया। उनके अफसानों में औरत अपने अस्तित्व की लड़ाई से जुड़े मुद्दे उठाती है। साहित्य तथा समाज में चल रहे स्त्री विमर्श को उन्होंने आज से 70 साल पहले ही प्रमुखता दी थी। इससे पता चलता है कि उनकी सोच अपने समय से कितनी आगे थी। उन्होंने अपनी कहानियों में स्त्री चरित्रों को बेहद संजीदगी से उभारा और इसी कारण उनके पात्र जिंदगी के बेहद करीब नजर आते हैं।
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd & Women Unlimited
  • Pages: 240
  • Binding: PaperBack
  • ISBN: 9789388070799
  • Category: Classics & Literary
  • Related Category: Classics
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