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Guftagoo with Neelabh | Poet and Broadcaster
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:23:50
Publish Date: 2021-07-23 15:42:33
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Recorded in Delhi, 2013 this TV interview was first shown on Rajya Sabha TV.

Irfan talking to the poet, broadcaster Neelabh in the longest running celebrity talk show Guftagoo

About Guftagoo

Guftagoo (Conversations) is India’s only uninterrupted, unscripted and unhurried celebrity talk show. Running since 2011 the show has a rich repository of 400+ TV shows varying from 30 to 160 minutes.

It’s a unique show interviewing distinguished personalities from various fields of arts and culture. The celebrated anchor Syed Mohd Irfan is host of the show whose distinctive style of conversation forms the essence of the show allowing guests to express their raw emotions. The in-depth interviews provide the viewers an intimate look in the inner worlds of the guests invited to the show. It helps them understand the guest`s life experiences, emotional conflicts, inspirations and struggles that brought out the artist in them and shaped the way they perceive the world.

This documentation of the life journeys of various artists, also serves as a popular audio-visual archive for anthropological studies.

Earlier aired on Rajya Sabha TV for a decade by the name of Guftagoo, show presented to its viewers, the journeys of  personalities from various fields, such as Tom Alter, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Irrfan Khan, Jaya Bachchan,Naseeruddin Shah, John Abraham, Jackie Shroff, Nandita Sen, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Milkha Singh, and Shyam Benegal to name a few. Stay tuned.

About Neelabh

In conversation with acclaimed artist Neelabh. Son of the renowned writer Upendranath "Ashk", he was born on August 16, 1945 in Bombay. He started writing during his University days while pursuing post graduation at Allahabad. He worked in the family publishing house for over a decade before joining the external services of BBC as a producer. His published works include ten books on poetry, one novel "Hichki", a long memoir "Gyanranjan ke Bahane", three volumes of literary criticism along with ten collections of miscellaneous prose. He has also published "Oral History of Hindi Literature" a research project in four volumes for Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University.   Neelabh has also worked on adaptations of plays by Shakespeare, Brecht and Lorca and Sanskrit plays of Shudrak which have been staged by eminent directors like B.V. Karant, Amal Allana, Usha Ganguly and Anil Bhowmick. He has done script writing for television serials, films, sound and light shows and dance-drama performances. He also writes articles on Jazz, film, art and drama.  He has also translated the works of Arundhati Roy, Lermontov, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul and Saadat Hasan Manto besides poems of renowned poets like Nazim Hikmet, Brecht, Rosewicz, Nicanor Parra, Ernesto Cadenal, Pablo Neruda, Jivananand Das and Sukant Bhattacharya.  

The year in which this interview was recorded, Neelabh was associated with Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, at Teen Murti Library as Hindi Editor and Research Officer.

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