Javed Akhtar's 'art and craft' philosophy
Today, I am going to talk about another legend of Hindi/Urdu Shayari and poetry: Shri Javed Akhtar. He is quite different from Gulzar Sahab in many ways. In my last post ( Why do we love Gulzar Sahab ), I mentioned how Gulzar Sahab is differently amazing by analyzing his answers in an interview. In this post also, the interview answers (The interview) of Javed Akhtar will be shown.
Let's start.
He answered a question in the following words.
“It is a kind of osmosis. I lived, breathed poetry. I learned about poetry without even trying to learn about poetry. No fruit is acquired through genes and poetry, the music of language needs to be chiseled and shaped, constantly. There needs to be a discipline, rhythm, taal that a writer needs to adhere to. It is a mixture of passion, fantasy, calculation, craft, and forgetfulness. Poetry is some kind of schizophrenia.”
As we can see here, he emphasized on the fact that art has always to be combined with the craft. Craft means learning, optimizing, and re-writing again and again. That is why we see the reflection of reality in his creations.
In another answer, he said," I combine thoughts with feelings, these are poetry. Mistakes only add bricks to the castle, the more the bricks, the bigger the castle. Words are to a writer, what colors are to a painter. Reworking is a part of the craft,”
We are seeing here also: the importance of craft and hint of reality.
Javed Akhtar is differently amazing too.
Below are some of his creations.
Thanks for the reading. The sharing will not take much time, I promise.
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