Books - Kahani & Manjarnama - By Gulzar

Dear Friends,
I have recently read 3 books in Hindi titled
Libaas – Kahani & Manjarnama
Aandhi -Kahani & Manjarnama
Meera - Kahani & Manjarnama

Manjarnama in Hindi refers to Situation as seen, it also refers to screen play or scenerio.

This books are actually the script of the movies made by Gulzar. The actual screen play & script, scene by scene is given in the book.

Earlier I have read Hututu – Kahani & Manjarnama also.

I have not seen movie Libaas, Aandhi or Meera.

All the movies made by Gulzar are known for realistic story, good songs, fine performances & flowing story narration.

I like to share my experience of reading,

Libaas is story of theatre artist couple & how their life changes when one friend enter into their life.

While reading the book, I felt that story is moving with each & every scene, the scenes are carring forward the story, actually not the story but to next scene / situation. It is also mentioned in the book itself that screen play was written even before the story finalised.

I like the concept in all & would love to see the movie for its lead Naseerudin Shah, Shabana Azami & Raj Babbar & it also have good songs.

Aandhi is story with politics background.

The leading lady breaks her marriage to pursue her political ambitions. After few years the man & woman meet each other in the middle of pre- election high drama. It leads to various events which ultimately bridge the gap between them. The main cast includes Sanjeev Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Om Prakash etc.

I had chance to see some glimpses of movie scenes, I really enjoyed watching Sanjeev Kumar in action. He was very brilliant actor & seeing him acting, with screen play in my hand, was delight.

Meera- Kahani & Manjarnama book contains the interview of Gulzar.It is must read for the persons who are interested to pursue their carrier in direction / film making.

Meera's story we all know, Gulzar has tried to cover important part of her life in the movie & reading the script (i.e. Book) I felt he has done justice. I would like to see the movie for Hema Malini (Meera) & Vinod Khanna.

On reading the above books I learn some thing about story telling (Meera). It has widen my horizon to think differently (Libaas) & see the things from other perspective(Aandhi).

Khushal

18/06/2009.