The Big Indian PictureThe Death of a Piper – The Big Indian Picture https://thebigindianpicture.com A Magazine of Cinema and Culture Sat, 15 Jun 2024 14:04:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Death of a Piper https://thebigindianpicture.com/2013/05/the-death-of-a-piper/ https://thebigindianpicture.com/2013/05/the-death-of-a-piper/#comments Mon, 27 May 2013 19:37:35 +0000 Mahmood Farooqui http://thebigindianpicture.com/?p=8323
]]> Saadat Hasan Manto was one of the greatest Urdu writers of the last century. He led a rich life, the last years of which, sadly, were given to trials for obscenity, financial troubles and, finally, a liver cirrhosis that was the cause of his death at age 42, in 1955, in Lahore, Pakistan.

In happier years in Bombay, Manto was also a film journalist and a radio and film scriptwriter. As an insider in the Bombay film industry he had a ready window into the lives of the brightest stars of those times. 

Here, Mahmood Farooqui reads what Manto had to say about the devastatingly handsome actor Shyam, a close friend of Manto’s, who, if not for his untimely death at 31, could have been one of Hindi cinema’s biggest stars. 

Image Courtesy – SMM Ausaja (Private Collection)

Audio Production – Raghav Suthaud (Oijo!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also Read:

The Narcissus of Undying Bloom. Saadat Hasan Manto on his likely and unlikely encounters with the actress Nargis.

 

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