A Lifetime on Tip Toes gives a wonderful view of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Screening of pictorial, poetry and music show A Lifetime on Tip Toes: a journey through trans-cultural images produced by Mazhar Tirmizi and Pawan was held at Safma Media Centre here on Tuesday.

show-608 With poet Kishwar Naheed and dramatist Sermad Sehbai sitting on his side, South Asia Policy Analysis Network (Sapana) director Ashfaque Saleem Mirza looked excited as he announced the screening of the movie.

‘You see today a mélange of poetry, music and pictures. You will cherish this for all time to come,’ he told the audience, adding that perhaps for the first time Safma media centre was presenting a presentation on Pakistan with difficult focusing on its rich panorama.

What followed was a delightful roll of delightful scenery enforced by rendering of unalloyed classical music with a resonant Punjabi voice, asking the viewers ‘Tu ki vekhan ay?

An answer would be totally unnecessary; any intervention at this stage could break the spell cast on the viewers by the rich timber voice of the narrator, describing wonderful natural scenery of the rural Punjab in resplendent Punjabi poetry.

The audience was told that the classical music describing the Essex apple wood was in the voice of the late Asad Amanat The magnificence was enhanced several folds by the extraordinary pictures’ shot by Pawan – literally meaning a slow flowing cloud-, a Lahori girl who is an expert at making movies and videos as well as collecting specimens of classical music by world famous vocalists of the sub-continent.

The video, inspired from Mazhar Tirmizi’s famous Punjabi song Umraa’n Langnghiya’nPabb’n Bahar hmnverse, has a spectacular showing in England where Mazhar Tirmizi migrated to in 1975.

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