Writer :	Shahid Anwar
Director :	Mahesh Dattani
Cast :	Seema Azmi

Sara

By MTG editorial

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Sara is a dramatic enactment of the life and times of Sara Shagufta, one of Pakistan's most controversial poets whose life was troubled with personal conflict, which found expression through her creative outpourings. Largely based on her letters to Amrita Pritam, this dramatization takes us through her struggles and victories as it does try to fathom her innermost yearnings.

Her poetry is searing and deeply personal. It dazzles with metaphor and compels the reader/listener to try and understand her life better through her words.

Sara Shagufta's is an important voice because it came from a deeply conservative society of the seventies and early eighties. She flouted the rules laid down by her society and yet deep in her heart she yearned for the very things that a civilized society offers an individual. Love, family and life lived with dignity. Did she acquire these in her short time on earth? Yes and no.

Written by Shahid Anwar and directed by Mahesh Dattani, SARA is an attempt to recognize the contributions of Sara Shagufta and for what she stood. The play, a one-person show by Seema Azmi will be staged at various centres in India, especially in the non metros. Part of the proceeds from the play will be donated in support of Dr. Kiran Bedi?s NGO, Navjyoti India Foundation that campaigns for women empowerment.

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