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Loud Speaker / لاؤڈ سپیکر

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List of Stories;
1 Dewan Singh Maftoon
2 Noor Jehan
3 Nawaab Kashmeri
4 Sitaraa
5 Chiragh Hasan Hasrat
6 Purusraar Neeind
7 Rafeeq Ghazanvi
8 Paro Devi
9 Anwar Kamal Pasha
10 Kay Kay

231 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2009

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1,185 reviews4 followers
September 16, 2020
These are Manto's pen sketches of different people he used to know,particularly those from the Bombay film industry.

These are warts and all descriptions.Sometimes Manto openly abuses his subjects.Sometimes he goes into details of their lives which are extremely personal.

Most of these people are not familiar to me but Manto's essay on Pakistan's famous singer Noor Jehan (also known as the melody queen,Malika e Tarannum) is very interesting and the book and is worth reading for that alone.

Again,it is not very flattering.He highlights Noor Jehan's flaws.Personally I'm not a fan of Noor Jehan and from what I've seen of her performances on TV,there was something very off-putting about her mannerisms.

Noor Jehan was notorious for her liasions with men and Manto goes into a fair bit of detail about her relationship with her first husband,Shaukat Hussain Rizvi.He does a proper hatchet job on the so called Malika e Tarannum (melody queen).

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October 4, 2018
গাঞ্জে ফেরেশতে পড়ি কয়েকমাস আগে, কোন এক ব্লগে রিভিউ দেখে।
এই পার্ট ধরলাম গত কয়েকদিনে ইউটিউবে Manto ছবির প্রচারণা দেখে। উর্দু জানা নেই, থাকলে একটু চেখে দেখা যেত তাঁর কলমের ধার।
তবে মোস্তফা হারুনের এই অনুবাদটাও আরামের। বিষয়বস্তু সেই একই - চিত্রজগতের কিছু চরিত্র। এক জায়গায় বলছেন, "লোকে আমাকে গালাগালি দেয় যে, আমি অশ্লীল লেখক, মুখপোড়া। কিন্তু তাঁরা একটু তলিয়ে দেখেননা যে, এই দুনিয়ায় কেমন লোকদের সঙ্গে আমার পাল্লা পড়েছে।" [পৃঃ৩৪]
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