The role of popular fiction in the popularity of Urdu has been prominent and of prime importance. Popular Literature is responsible for the diffusion of Urdu literature into the abode of the common realm. The absence of popular literature would have deemed Urdu Literacy to a confinement within Palaces, libraries and the Royal Courts, forsaking the common people of beautiful yet staggering pieces of Urdu literacy. Besides Ibn-e-Safi, there were many stalwarts of popular fiction, such as Gulshan Nanda, Adil Rasheed, Badnaam Rafiei, Dutt Bharti, Raees Ahmed Jafri, Saeed Amrit, Ranu, Izhar Asar, Siraj Anwar and Salamat Ali Mehdi etc. who contributed to the cause of development of such literary taste. Salamat Ali Mehdi, had gained immense fame by writing mysterious and horror novels. He himself writes in the preface of one of his mysterious novels supporting the stand of popular literature that: "A series of horror novels is nothing new. In Urdu literature, this trend is a prod...
This book by Mukarram Niyaz, which mainly contains film reviews, successfully seeks to minimize this gulf to some extent. Mukarram Niyaz is a fiction writer, an author. Therefore, his reviews are devoid of the superficiality and mediocrity which characterize those by ordinary or average film reviewers. In almost all his reviews, Mukarram reveals, in him, a skillful critic glamour-stricken reviewers are deprived of. In my opinion, this book will rejuvenate the cine journalism in Urdu which had become almost non-existent after the publication of popular Urdu monthly "Shama" was terminated. فلمی صحافت کی تاریخ اتنی ہی پرانی ہے جتنی سنیما کی تاریخ، لیکن افسوس کی بات یہ ہے کہ اس کے تئیں ادیبوں کے بے حس رویے نے فکری دنیا اور سنیما کی درمیان ایک گہری خلیج پیدا کردی ہے۔ ہمارے بیشتر ادیب سنیما پر گفتگو کا ایک نیا معیار قائم کرنے کے بجائے روایتی کسوٹی پر اسے پرکھ کر خارج کرتے رہے ہیں ،نتیجتاً اس میں اوسطیوں کی گنجائشیں بڑھتی چلی گئیں۔ مکرم نیاز کی زیر نظر کتاب جو فلمی تبصروں پ...