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Miraqsam Media presents Mah-e-Meer, a film by Sarmad Sehbai and directed by Anjum Shehzad. The movie is inspired by the work of Mir Taqi Mir, the first classical master of Urdu poetry. Mah-e-Meer meaning the promiscuous moon is a story that follows the struggle of a contemporary poet and draws parallels with events in Mir’s life. Mah e Meer is a biographical film, based on real life events of the astonishing poet.
This remarkable film shows events that were pivotal in Meers life, such as; his conflict with the royal court, his romance with a tawaif, his ideals of bringing Urdu poetry to the people in the streets and his eventual obession with the full moon; all reflected in his poetry. The official trailer of the film, produced by Badar Ikram and Khurram Shahzad is out. The film is featuring Manzar Sehbai as Dr Kareem, Fahad Mustafa as the lead role Jamal, Iman Ali as Mahtab, Sanam Saeed as Naina Kanwal.
The movie has five songs that carry on with the script, which are written by veteran writer and director Sarmad Sehbai. This will be Sarmad Sehbai’s cinematic debut. The total running time of the film is 120 minutes and the film is currently undergoing its post-production phase. According to the producers of the movie, Badar Ikram and Khurram Rana, negotiations with distributors are under way and release details will be finalized soon. Fahad Mustaffa’s fans are anxiously waiting for the release of this one of a kind film,its not often that we see such cinema being produced in Pakistan.
Mir Taqi Mir was born at Agra in 1723. He spent his early childhood under the care and companionship of his father, whose constant emphasis on the importance of love and the value of continence and compassion in life went a long way in molding the character of the poet, love ended up becoming the emphasis of most of his ghazals and poems.
Mir is one of the immortals among Urdu poets. He is a perfect artist of the ghazal, which makes its peculiar appeal through compression, suggestion, imagery and musicality. He builds his poetry on the foundations of his personal experience. His favorite theme is love – love unfulfilled – and his favorite manner is conversational. Mir lived at a time when Urdu poetry was yet at a formative stage – its language was getting reformed and purged of native crudities, and its texture was being enriched with borrowings from Persian imagery and idiom.
Aided by his aesthetic instincts, Mir struck a fine balance between the old and the new, the indigenous and the imported elements. Knowing that Urdu is essentially an Indian language, he retained the best in native Hindi speech and leavened it with a sprinkling of Persian diction and phraseology, so as to create a poetic language at once simple, natural and elegant, acceptable alike to the elite and the common folk. Consequently he has developed a style which has been the envy of all succeeding poets. Therefore,one can say that Mir was one of the original creators of one of the most beautiful languages in the world.
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