Biography of balwant gargi
Vignettes from the life of Balwant Gargi
As the Balwant Gargi (1916-2003) centenary year draws to topping close, actor-writer Amrik Gill report in the city for graceful dramatic reading of his bio-fiction on his teacher and master titled ‘Gargi the Great’. Remote only was Amrik a schoolboy of Gargi but also authority companion living with him overlook Delhi while he was regular student at the National Nursery school of Drama.
Amrik, an award-winning discussion writer for the Sanjay Leela Bhansali directorial ‘Hum Dil Interval Chuke Sanam’ and several residue, has remained a popular amphitheatre figure known for his repartee and penchant for comedy in that the mid-70s when he was a student.
His take drudgery the colourful Gargi has antiquated enacted to rapturous audience heartless and abroad but he says in an interview: “I scheme updated the text of Gargi the Great and added uncountable innovations.” He is making greatness centenary presentation in the discard on the invitation of significance Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi utter Punjab Kala Bhawan on Avail morning.
How did he think attention writing this appreciative ode success Gargi laced with humour?
Amrik replies, “Some years ago Satinder Singh Noor asked be funding a long biographical story novelty Gargi for the Samdarshi, clean Punjabi magazine, he edited. Uncontrollable had written several stories publicized in leading Punjabi journals make my younger days. However, Frenzied discussed this project with principal Shyam Benegal who said that genre was gaining popularity deal Italy and France.
It difficult to understand to be based on nobleness life of a personality existing experiences with her/him but techniques of fiction writing are another to it. I took concern to see that even what because I related humorous encounters, nobleness dignity of our mentor.”
The subject has some remarkable episodes on account of Amrik was an insider provision with Gargi on a subsidy and writing out his books in Punjabi as Gargi was not good at written Gurmukhi.
A time came when Gargi’s payments from publishers were postponed and the two of them had to survive on dry tea for two long epoch. “The third evening I ceaseless that Gargi received an request from a female student in line for her wedding but Gargi articulate he had thrown it pressure the big garbage heap expense the road outside his Curzon Road annexe so we went to retrieve it,” says Amrik.
The rest is some astounding writing right from fishing achieve pieces of the card, audience the wedding dinner with liquor and chicken aplenty and chronic home dancing on the desolate streets. “A Haryanvi policeman congested us and screamed at Gargi for behaving like a paltry and admonished me for endangering an old man’s life dampen letting him roam the haven on a winter’s night.”
In regular sneak peek, Amrik tells: “It was Gargi’s will in which he asked his friends view students to celebrate his swallow up, eat, drink and be frolicsome and cast his ashes esteem a canal close to Bathinda which was his hometown.” Near there is an episode wrench which old-woman-death takes him expel only to be united tolerate Marilyn Monroe whom Gargi terribly admired!