chhotahazri

Hindi: chhoti haziri, vulg. hazri, 'little breakfast'; refreshment taken in the early morning, before or after the morning exercise. (Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, 1994 [1886])

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Showing posts with label Ismat Chughtai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ismat Chughtai. Show all posts
29 January 2019

Book Review: Urdu Memoirs

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A short book review published in India Today: Yeh Un DinoƱ Ki Baat Hai: Urdu Memoirs of Cinema Legends  by Yasir Abbasi; Bloomsbury...
27 August 2018

The Sharpshooter

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My Mirror column : Ismat Chughtai  would have turned 107 on August 21. Who was she and why should she be the subject of a column on cinema?...
9 February 2018

The fictions of filmdom

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My Mirror column: Rahi Masoom Raza's biting 1977 novel Scene 75 is a brutally frank and funny account of the Bombay film industry...
11 October 2015

Writing Filmi Fictions

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Today's Mirror column : Though we speak of great Urdu writers shaping Bombay's cinema, we forget how much cinema also shaped thei...
18 November 2014

An ill wind: Revisiting Garm Hava

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Last Sunday's Mirror column : Newly restored, MS Sathyu's iconic film about post-partition times resonates more than ever in our p...
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