my uncle, who wrote the story and the dialogues of the Bollywood legendary movie “chauDhviiN kaa chaand”, was also a hazal-go shaa’ir in our Poorbii zabaan. the village peasants waited outside the pinDaal in cold untill 3 am on the night of the annual mushai’ra held in my village during the month of December under the organization of the local Club called Anjuman-e-seHat o tafreeH [Health N Recreational Club].
he used to write about village people and village events happening in the previous year since the last annual mushaa’irah.
in this she’r, he talks about a theft that happened in one of the Baniya’s house in the village. there was this Halwaaii named Beni Prasad who was also a part-time notorious break-N-enter thief. he was rightly or wrongly always accused by police for involvement in those thefts. lol
this is what he said in the she’r:
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kahuuN chorii bha-ii to Daroga jii ii kahen
kauno nahiiN, saare! Beniivai ke kaam aaye!
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ab aap log is she’r kaa matlab salees Urdu meN bataaiye k kia kahaa gayaa hai?
Re: how many of you can understand this hazali she’r?
jii haN, haiN nahiiN the. unkaa ek arsa huaa intiqaal ho chukaa. inna lillahi wa inna ilaihii raaje’oon.
after the success of chaudhviiN kaa chaand movie, he joined TabliGhii Jamaa’at and dissociated himself from Bollywood and donated his entire proceeds from that movie to the poor and spent rest of his life in the village doing deeni and social work in the village. the present day village mosque was renovated by using the village boys who worked day and night on voluntary basis…it was completed in record 2 months of summer holidays.
he is more remembered in the village for his deeni and social work than as a Bollywood writer.
