Inder Sabha
Inder Sabha (
The play
The opera is set in the celestial court of
The play is considered a seminal work that directly influenced several important nineteenth and early-twentieth century Urdu plays that followed it, including Khadim Husain Afsos's Bazm-e-Suleman (1862), Bahiron Singh Asmat's Jashn-e-Parastan and Taj Mahal Farrukh's Nigaristan-e-Farrukh (1911).[1]
Commissioning
Although it is widely regarded as the first Urdu stage play, there is dispute on how the play came to be created.[7] While some historians have contended that Agha Hasan Amanat was commissioned by Wajid Ali Shah to write it, others (such as Abdul Halim Sharar) have disputed this claim and asserted that it was written entirely independently by Amanat.[7]
Adaptations
Manilal Joshi made, Indrasabha, an Indian silent film based on the play in 1925. Another film Indrasabha, released in 1932, was one of the earliest
References
- ^ ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0,
... some characters used masks and other make up their faces ... Fireworks were used ... published in German by Friedrich Rosen (1856-1935) in Leipzig which evoked considerable interest ... Khadim Husain Afsos's Inder Sabha (Agra, 1862) ...
- ^ ISBN 978-0-521-58822-5,
... The history of the theatre of modern Pakistan is the history of the Urdu-language theatre which started in 1853 with the composition of Mirza Amanat's Inder Sabha performed at the court of Wajid Ali Shah of Oudh ... for at least two generations after that, actors and musicians of Oudh sang the songs of Inder Sabha ...
- ^ Friedrich Rosen. "Die Indarsabhā des Amānat : neuindisches Singspiel in lithographischem Originaltext." Leipzig: Brockhaus Verlag, 1892.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8166-4579-4,
... in early experimentations with the technology of sound, narration in films like Indrasabha (The Court of Indra, JJ Madan, 1932) ... It would therefore be gratuitous to say that Indrasabha had seventy-one songs ...
- ISBN 978-0-8240-4946-1,
... The court poet Agha Hasan ("Amanat") wrote this musical dance drama based on the love story of a fairy and a prince. The drama, entirely in verse, was picked up by Parsi theater companies in Bombay that produced Urdu plays in India ...
- ^ Sayyid Mohammad Abdullah (1967), Urdū adab, Maktaba-e-khayaban-e-adab, 1967,
... اردو میں اس صنف کا احیا، اودھ کے تہزیبی دور میں ھوا. امانت نے اندر سبھا میں گیت کو رواج دیا ...
- ^ a b The Pakistan review, Volume 8, Ferozsons., 1960, 1960,
... Sharar is also opposed to the view that the first Urdu Drama namely Inder Sabha was composed by the order of ... Also, there is a good deal of evidence to show that Inder Sabha was written by Amanat at the behest of Wajid Ali Shah ...
- ISBN 978-0-8069-0204-3,
... The musical with the most song numbers was Madan Theatres' Indra Sabha (India 32), a Hindi movie with 72 songs. The Hollywood musical with the most songs was Columbia's The Jolson Story (US 46) which had 28 song sequences ...
- ISBN 9780851706696. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- Bhojpuri Filmon Ka Safarnama By Raviraj Patel ISBN 9351862038