Listen with Irfan

Host: Irfan | Guests: Vishal Yadav and Ashutosh Kumar Pandey

Vishal Yadav is a young and promising actor best known for his remarkable performance in Season 3 of the web series Panchayat and many more.

Here is a conversation with Vishal and his childhood native friend Ashutosh Kumar Pandey.

Recorded inside a noisy cultural centre Triveni, Tansen Marg, New Delhi on 12th of August 2024

Photo and Cover: Irfan

Ek Shahar, Ek Pahad, Ek Mohalla

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Recorded in Ranchi, 2019 this TV interview was first shown on Rajya Sabha TV.

Irfan talking to the poet activist Jacinta Kerketta in the longest running celebrity talk show Guftagoo

About Guftagoo

Guftagoo (Conversations) is India’s only uninterrupted, unscripted and unhurried celebrity talk show. Running since 2011 the show has a rich repository of 400+ TV shows varying from 30 to 160 minutes.

It’s a unique show interviewing distinguished personalities from various fields of arts and culture. The celebrated anchor Syed Mohd Irfan is host of the show whose distinctive style of conversation forms the essence of the show allowing guests to express their raw emotions. The in-depth interviews provide the viewers an intimate look in the inner worlds of the guests invited to the show. It helps them understand the guest`s life experiences, emotional conflicts, inspirations and struggles that brought out the artist in them and shaped the way they perceive the world.

This documentation of the life journeys of various artists, also serves as a popular audio-visual archive for anthropological studies.

Earlier aired on Rajya Sabha TV for a decade by the name of Guftagoo, show presented to its viewers, the journeys of  personalities from various fields, such as Tom Alter, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Irrfan Khan, Jaya Bachchan,Naseeruddin Shah, John Abraham, Jackie Shroff, Nandita Sen, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Milkha Singh, and Shyam Benegal to name a few. Stay tuned.

Audio bounce of a TV interview.

The entire Guftagoo playlist on YouTube Link

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Ali Kabadkar by Kajal Goswami

Life of a Scrap vendor in India.

Presented by Ankur

Ratan Thiyam (born 20 January 1948) is an Indian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics...) playwright and theatre director, and the winner of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangeet_Nata...) in 1987, one of leading figures of the "theatre of roots" movement in Indian theatre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_theatre) , which started in the 1970s. Also known as Thiyam Nemai, Ratan Thiyam is known for writing and staging plays that use ancient Indian theatre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_in_I...) traditions and forms in a contemporary context. A former painter, and proficient in direction, design, script and music, Thiyam is often considered one of leading contemporary theatre gurus.He worked as Chairperson of the prestigious National School of Drama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Sch...) from 2013-2017. He had also worked as Vice-Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangeet_Nata...) before joining NSD. He has also worked as Director of National School of Drama from 1987 to 1989. He is also the founder-director of Chorus Repertory Theatre, formed on the outskirts of Imphal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imphal) , Manipur in 1976. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangeet_Nata...) in Direction in 1987, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangeet_Nata...) , India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, and the Padma Shri (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padma_Shri) given by Government of India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_o...) in 1989. He was awarded the 2012 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sang...) , the highest honour in the performing arts conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. In the year 2013, Ratan Thiyam receives honorary D.lit from Assam University, Silchar.Recorded on 7 Jan 1982 by Pratibha Agrawal

Hindi Films

Celebrity Talks

Sound from Godam movie.

Bachchon Ke Baarey Mein | Recites Atul Arya

Hindi Kavita

Produced in 2007

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यहाँ आपको मिलती हैं वो दुर्लभ आवाज़ें खुद बोलती, गाती और बहस करती। मनोहर श्याम जोशी, कमलेश्वर, कृष्णा सोबती, बी वी कारंत, शमशेर बहादुर सिंह, बलराज साहनी, अज्ञेय, रसूलन बाई, निर्मल वर्मा, मंगलेश डबराल, राजेंद्र यादव, चंद्रकांत देवताले, भवानी प्रसाद मिश्र, इस्मत चुग़ताई, सत्यदेव दुबे, त्रिलोचन, अमरीश पुरी, इब्राहीम अल्क़ाज़ी, मोहन उप्रेती, गोरख पांडेय, नैना देवी, वीरेन डंगवाल, मन्नू भंडारी, भीष्म साहनी, देवकी नंदन पांडे आदि के अलावा अनगिनत भारतीय और विदेशी समकालीन विचारक, कलाकार, लेखक, कवि और सांस्कृतिक लड़ाके। किताबों पर चर्चा के पॉडकास्ट, संगीत, फिल्म रिव्यू और स्ट्रीट रिकॉर्डिंग्स का एकमात्र पॉडकास्ट मंच।

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Vivan Sundaram (28 May 1943 – 29 March 2023) was an Indian contemporary artist. He worked in many different medias, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and video art, and his work was politically conscious and highly intertextual in nature. His work constantly referred to social problems, popular culture, problems of perception, memory, identification and history. He was married to art historian and critic Geeta Kapur.

यहाँ आपको मिलती हैं वो दुर्लभ आवाज़ें खुद बोलती, गाती और बहस करती। मनोहर श्याम जोशी, कमलेश्वर, कृष्णा सोबती, बी वी कारंत, शमशेर बहादुर सिंह, बलराज साहनी, अज्ञेय, रसूलन बाई, निर्मल वर्मा, मंगलेश डबराल, राजेंद्र यादव, चंद्रकांत देवताले, भवानी प्रसाद मिश्र, इस्मत चुग़ताई, सत्यदेव दुबे, त्रिलोचन, अमरीश पुरी, इब्राहीम अल्क़ाज़ी, मोहन उप्रेती, गोरख पांडेय, नैना देवी, वीरेन डंगवाल, मन्नू भंडारी, भीष्म साहनी, देवकी नंदन पांडे आदि के अलावा अनगिनत भारतीय और विदेशी समकालीन विचारक, कलाकार, लेखक, कवि और सांस्कृतिक लड़ाके। किताबों पर चर्चा के पॉडकास्ट, संगीत, फिल्म रिव्यू और स्ट्रीट रिकॉर्डिंग्स का एकमात्र पॉडकास्ट मंच।

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