Urdu Service

Pakeezah: Meena Kumari's swan song, which took fifteen years to complete, was applauded for cinematographic larger-than-life film sets, music, poetry, dance, and costumes. 

This podcast discusses the selected letters of Mirza Ghalib to shed light on his life and trauma of 1857, along with the choicest poetic pieces from Diwan-e-Ghalib sung by stalwarts of the music industry. 

Let's get acquainted with a prominent Urdu poet of our times- Hassan Abbas Raza

Let me take you decades back when  Amanat Lucknavi wrote the first stage drama of Urdu literature in 1853. It had 830 couplets and eight characters that appeared on the stage. Today we call such dramas musicals.

Let’s hear how Jagjit and Chitra became soul mates over the years bonding over music!