(The joy of a drop is to merge into the river; For pain to exceed its limit is to become the cure.)
📺 You can find the full episodes on YouTube (Doordarshan National Archives). It is available with subtitles. mirza ghalib (tv series)
🏆 The series won the National Award for Best TV Series . More importantly, it revived mainstream interest in Urdu poetry. Even today, stills of Naseeruddin Shah as Ghalib remain the definitive visual of the poet. (The joy of a drop is to merge
#MirzaGhalib #Gulzar #NaseeruddinShah #JagjitSingh #UrduPoetry #Doordarshan #IndianTelevision #ClassicTV More importantly, it revived mainstream interest in Urdu
Before the era of streaming and binge-watching, Doordarshan delivered a masterpiece that remains unparalleled in Indian television history. We are talking about the 1988 biographical series directed by the legendary Gulzar .
✨ "Ishrat-e-qatra hai darya mein fana ho jaana Dard ka hadd se guzarna hai dawa ho jaana"