I must have watched Meena Kumari’s ‘bahu begum’ many years ago.. it’s a fine piece of luknowi dhalti hui
nawabi shaan..
Famous Bollywood scriptwriter Javed Akhtar’s father Jan Nisar Akhtar produced this film.. I looked him up on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Nisar_Akhtar
Found in the Wikipedia entry
that his wife, and Javed’s mother, Sofia Akhtar was a college lecturer in Bhopal, who
brought up her children, supported her husband struggling in Mumbai, and fought
cancer on her own !
Found this beautiful
anthology of her letters to Jan Bisar when she was in Bhopal, and he was in
Mumbai, translated in english. She died of cancer a few days after the last
letter.. http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/20/18SafiaAkhtar.pdf
The translator of these
letters to english, a professor herself, has this blog on Ghalib’s verses.. http://mehrafshanfarooqi.com/
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