"What struck me most about the poems was their amazing immediacy, their power to take you in without any fuss and bother. Plain as conversation, Meena Kumari's poems strike an uncanny intimacy or ...

The honour eluded her in life. It was only after her death at the age of 39 on March 31, 1972, that her poetry began to surface. When not acting, Meena Kumari wrote Urdu poetry under the pen name ...

"What struck me most about the poems was their amazing immediacy, their power to take you in without any fuss and bother. Plain as conversation, Meena Kumari's poems strike an uncanny intimacy or ...

Soon people will get to hear the late veteran actress Meena Kumari’s poems in video and audio CDs. A brainchild of Kamal Amrohi’s son Shandaar and Reena Roy’s sister Barkha (both previously ...

The theme of emptiness defines her poems in the book Meena Kumari The Poet: A Life Beyond Cinema; a sense of hollowness that is more self-indulgent than self-expressive prevails throughout the ...

I remember two of these—one was the eponymously titled Bachchan Recites Bachchan, the other I Write, I Recite, an album of recordings of Meena Kumari reciting her own poetry with music by Khayyam.

At an online poetry meet-up, Pune’s poets and artistes paid a tribute to actress-poet Meena Kumari Nukkad Cafe and The Yellow Room Poet’s Club’s weekly online poetry meet-up — Ustadon Ki ...

Mahna remembers his mother gifting him a record of I Write I Recite, the album of poems narrated by Meena Kumari. “I learnt Urdu to understand her poems,” Mahna said. “Making a film on her ...

Meena Kumari loved the scent of mogras ... But she loved to sing and has recorded an entire album of her own poetry I Write I Recite, composed by Khayyam. In her films, she wanted only Lata ...

New Delhi: In her final moments, Meena Kumari confesses she isn’t fond of films. She reads from her diary of poems and longs ...

Sunidhi Chauhan and Shandaar Amrohi will lend voice to the actress’ poems to be released in video and audio CDs Soon people will get to hear the late veteran actress Meena Kumari’s poems in ...