About The Event
Ghalib (Urdu) is the part of the 500th performance of the iconic play GHALIB IN NEW DELHI. It is a lively, entertaining and vivacious account of good & bad life and times of India’s greatest poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib.
The play has 70-year-old Ghalib narrating the memoirs of his life to his first biographer Hali.
Ghalib in a style laced with humor and satire takes audiences to an array of events; depicting Ghalib- the talented child; Ghalib - the carefree young man; Ghalib - the mature middle-aged: His wife (Umrao Begum), a God-fearing lady wedded to man who defied God: His family that got reduced to two from seven in a very short span of time: His deranged brother, shot dead as a rebel by Britons in 1857: His devout servants, twenty one in total: His lady love (Mughol Jan), who committed suicide: His futile attempts to secure a dignified position in Mughol Darbar, and also the professorship in Delhi College: His contemporaries – virtually a long list
The play features some of the prominent actors of the country; including Himanshu Srivastava, Manish Singh, Dr. M Sayeed Alam, etc., with Dr. Alam essaying the all-important role of Mirza Ghalib. It has been written and directed by Dr. M Sayeed Alam, reputed for his penchant for Humorous, Historical and Historic plays.
Last but not the least, the play is produced by Pierrot’s Troupe - the theater company credited with giving many new, original and entertaining productions to Hindi, Urdu and English Theatre: Ghalib In New Delhi, Maulana Azad, Big B, Ghalib, K L Saigal, Sons of Babur, Ghalib Ke Khat, Shah Jahan –O- Mumtaz, Sir Iqbal, Pakistan Aur Alzheimer’s, To Gandhi Ji With Spelling Mistakes, Raja Nahar Singh, Dagh Dehlvi, Mohan Se Mahatma, The Tale Of Quarles etc.
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