Lassi Te Cha

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Perween Shakir

The legendary poetess Parween Shakir reciting her own poetry. It is magical to listen to her. She reads out three amazingly woven intricate yet romantic ghazals.


It is a rare treat. Listen!









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Alif Noon - The Barber's Shop

The next video clip features a comical script with a serious message played so well and seriously that in retrospect it seems incredible how the writer and then the main two characters manage to make it side-splitting and deadly serious simultaneously.


"Alif Noon" is that classical drama from Pakistan Television which blended the thought-provoking and the amusing sides of the Pakistani culture which sometime existed at the same place. The Pakistani society was at a transforming stage at that moment. With a number of middle class and religiously strict families marching towards modern way of life, it was a testing time for many people.


The main two characters Kamal Ahmad Rizwi - the writer and director as well - and Muhammad Rafi Khawar (who got fame as 'Nannah') are the duo who shot to fame mainly due to this play.


This is a scene from a barber's shop.

I'd specially like to mention the last couple who comes in rather the husband comes in 'dragging' his wife along so that he can have her hair cut for her to be able to accompany him in the so-called 'high society'. Whereas she does not want so but then she gives in when he threatens to divorce her (it is the third day of their married life) And the barber (Muhammad Rafi Khawar) first refuses to cut her hair and then cuts his fingers in protest so that he does not have to face such a dilemma again.   







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Rangeela In Action

Now who does not know about Rangeela when it comes to old Pakistani films!


The following clip features this king of comedy though here he does not look in his full form still it is enough to get the viewers laughing. He is one of those actors from whom everybody expects something funny and he always comes up to the expectations of his fans. 


In the following scene, Rangeela exercises his mesmerism on a visitor. He gets away with it as you might be able to forsee it. But then he tries it on his father. The result I hope you can already imagine. Still in order to enjoy it better do watch it.


What brings home the expertise of Rangeela at acting is the dead serious manner in which he plays the role.






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Anwar Maqsood

Anwar Maqsood - the legendary Punjabi poet - who has people laughing and the message that he conveys with his light comedy is his part. And his special way of saying the verse renders his status head and shoulders above most of his contemporaries.


Please do not mind the rawness of the video. It is clear it was recorded with a mobile camera and it is particularly unbalanced when the person holding the camera is laughing. 






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Taleem-e balghan (Adult Learning)

This next video features the short play Taleem-e Baalghan (Adult Learning/Education). It is funny play but like the other classical plays of the day it also carries a message that when we think about makes us really serious and the comic element just disappears into thin air.


All of it is good but I personally find it really side-splitting when near the end the teacher asks one of the students to 'do itching' on his back and what follows. 









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Zare-o-Zabar

Ghazi Salahuddin - a prominent scholar, writer and thinker of Pakistan - speaks on a humorous book "Zare-o-Zabar" written by Rashid Arshad. While he reads out of the book he punctuates his reading with comments and also has something to say in introduction. All this is very important to Pakistani youth since it is related to our national language - Urdu. Please watch all, listen carefully and try to give Urdu its rightful place in your life.


Ghazi sahib belong to that scholarly elite who are our treasure. We must try to learn from them.










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ANAARKALI DIYAN SHANAN (ANWAR MAQSOOD)

Another famous one from Anwar Maqsood. This time it is a husband and wife in Lahore walking the famous bazar Anaar Kali. The husband calls her "bholi mujh" literally 'credulous / gullible buffalo' - someone who takes the shadow for the substance. And tells her a number of things about Anaar Kali bazar.













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ANWAR MAQSOOD IN HOLLAND

Anwar Maqsood - one of the most famous poets from Pakistan who employs the Punjabi language to share what his eyes see in the society was in Holland. Listen what a beautiful and animated things he had to say! He had the audience in stitches. 










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Ab Teri Bazm Se Koi Uttha Chahta Hai (Perveen Shakir)

          A tribute to the loving memory of  Perveen Shakir

Ab Itni Sadgi Layen Kahan Se (Parween Shakir)

An Evening With Ahmad Faraz

Jaan se Ishq Aur Jahan se Guraze (Ahmad Faraz)

         Ahmad Faraz - the famous poet whose creations include "Ranjish he sahi dil he dukhanay k liay aa" created poems that has one in 'ecstatic sadness' - "Ik umar se hun lazzat-e girya se mehroom/ ae rahat-e jan mujh ko rulanay k liay aa".












A few ghazals of Ahmad Faraz! Enjoy!
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Chacha Chhakkan ka Khat

         Chacha Chhakkan (Uncle Chhakkan) is a traditionally comic figure in Urdu literature. He can easily replace one of the most famous comical characters -Mr Simpson- in English literature.


         Chacha Chakkan whenever takes upon himself to do something ends up causing physical harm to himself or others; makes everybody rush looking for different things all around the house and causes such confusion that has all around him in a spin.


         In this funny short story Chacha Chhakkan writes reply to a letter which actually was addressed to his wife. She asked him to write, on his persistent offers of his help, since she herself was busy with something else.









"Chacha Chhakkan ka Khat" recited by Zia Muhayyuddin.
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Guman Ka Mumkin

"Guman Ka Mumkin" by Noon Meem Rashid recited by Zia Muhayyudin. It is, like the rest of Rashid's poems aesthetically pleasing and has an atmosphere that drowns the reader in its rhythm, theme and words.

Terrorism (Dehshatgardi)

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Buddi De Thallay Laga

     Another funny item about husband and wife but this time it is a poem in Punjabi. In the poem the speaker is a husband and he enumerates the chores that he goes through at home just to give her wife a helping hand. It ends at a sad note - between the lines though!






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Biwi Kesi Hona Chahiay

     

             Here is an essay read out by Zia Muhayyudin "Biwi Kesi Hona Chahiay" (How should a wife be) by Chauhdry Muhammad Ali Rizolwi. A classical essay - funny but in the undertone are the facts about husband and wife. A witty, funny but factual account with anecdotes intermingled with the a message between the lines.

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Hasan Koozagar

Here Zia Muhayyuddin recites an Urdu poem -Hasan Koozagar 1-  from the poet Meem Noon Rashid. Both the artist who read it out and the poet... both stand out in our culture where Urdu governs on the hearts and minds of the literate and the illiterate equally! Zia sahib has that particular special something in his voice that resonates the inner-most parts of our being and it creates a charm that transforms us into the world where he is reading from - the world of Hassan Koozagar!

Enjoy this masterpiece by Noon Meem Rashid.

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