By Eby John
Eminent poet, lyricist and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar had
come to preside over a book launch function at the World Book Fair today. Two
original Urdu Titles were released namely ‘Jauhar-E-Adakaari’ by Latafat
Hussain Kazi and ‘Urdu Aur Bollywood’ by Suhail Akhtar Warsi.
Javed enlightened and amused the audience by his witty and
brief speech on Urdu Language. Pin pointing at the general incorrect assumption
of moviegoers he said- “jab tak dialogue samajh aa raha ho log usse hindi samajhte
hai, jab samajh se bahar ho jaye toh kehte hai ye urdu hai”. The audience
continuously received laughter jolts throughout his speech.
He explained through
examples how a normal sentence in a conversation contains words from different
origins. He commented on the present trend in films and dialogues in them, stressing
the need to preserve the actual ‘Hindustaani Zubaani’ that he said the
youngsters have forgotten. The veteran congratulated the two authors at the occasion
of their book release.
In the end he was presented a momento by NBT chairman MA
Sikandar, to which he playfully responded by saying “isse kehte hai ghanto ka
kaam, ‘momento’ mein karna”.
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