Javed Akhtar & Rukhsar Amrohi on the Tragic Genius of Jaun Elia
Javed Akhtar & Rukhsar Amrohi on Jaun Elia | Poetry, Pain & Untold Memories
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Javed Akhtar and Jaun Elia's niece Rukhsar Amrohi talk about Jaun Elia, the poet whose plain words still hit harder than most, and the craft nobody has managed to copy.
Javed Akhtar goes through Jaun’s Sahl-e-Mumtana, the way a line of his sounds like ordinary speech and still carries so much feeling. He talks through the thinking behind some of his best known shers on love, doubt and partition. Rukhsar Amrohi brings the family side. She remembers Jaun’s migration in 1957, and how particular he was about getting every word exactly right.
It’s a good one for anyone who knows Jaun Elia from shayari reels and wants to understand the man and the grief behind the lines.
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Javed Akhtar and Jaun Elia's niece Rukhsar Amrohi talk about Jaun Elia, the poet whose plain words still hit harder than most, and the craft nobody has managed to copy.
Javed Akhtar goes through Jaun’s Sahl-e-Mumtana, the way a line of his sounds like ordinary speech and still carries so much feeling. He talks through the thinking behind some of his best known shers on love, doubt and partition. Rukhsar Amrohi brings the family side. She remembers Jaun’s migration in 1957, and how particular he was about getting every word exactly right.
It’s a good one for anyone who knows Jaun Elia from shayari reels and wants to understand the man and the grief behind the lines.
