Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi on writings of Kaifi Azmi and Jan Nisar Akhtar

Jaipur: Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi in a playful banter talked about their lives and how they found and lost a lot while translating Daaera And Dhanak: Companion Volumes Of Nazms By Kaifi Azmi and Jan Nisar Akhtar.

Talking about writing style of Jan Nisar Akhtar, Shabana Azmi said that he mostly vividly about femininity of woman he loved - the dupatta she but between her lips, visualizing the waters and beyond of her eyes, and more
He used to write it from the perspective of women and men both, with striking imagery and marvelous simile.

Akhtar spoke about the progressive writer’s movement and its origin from the All India Congress Conference which was presided by Munshi Premchand. Akhtar further talks about how the essence of a Gazal gets lost in translation. Azmi mentioned the presence of the element of love in correlation to women in Jan Nisar Akhtar’s poems. At the end of the session Akhtar and Azmi read their favorite quotes from their individual books, Daera and Dhanak respectively.