May 13, 2012

When Benazir enjoyed `Pakeezah` in Shimla

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When her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto talking peace with Indira Gandhi in Shimla, his daughter Benazir was busy browsing the Meena Kumari-starrer `` Pakeezah.

So says M.K. Kaw, highly respected Indian bureaucrat who was based in Himachal Pradesh capital and which had been assigned to look after young Benazir Bhutto.


The year was 1972 when senior Bhutto traveled Shimla to sign a peace agreement with the Indira Gandhi after the breakup of Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh after the 1971 India-Pakistan war.


Kaw said Benazir wanted to see "Pakeezah" hugely successful Kamal Amrohi production Meena Kumari played the role of a `` tawaif. The celebrated actress died shortly after the picture was taken.


Kaw said he spoke to Shimla `s deputy commissioner and special show was held at the Ritz cinema.


"There were only three of us in the cinema hall. Benazir, Benazir Veena and I enjoy the movie immensely.


"I thought the picture of the young and innocent Benazir all through the tumultuous years of his career until she was murdered."


The IAS officer, Kaw served the government for 42 years in various shapes and sleep in 2001.


The book is full of many interesting experiences and his visits to leading politicians and officials at various levels throughout the country.


Kaw said when he was sub-divisional application magistrate (SDM) in Delhi, he realized that the station house officers or SHOs, the head of police in the capital, knew all the criminals in his.


"The general impression I got on my tenure was that the SHOs were aware of the criminals in their own and all the crimes were flourishing with knowledge, if not Conn Vance them.


"Of course there were some rituals that had to be gone through. Once in a while, the police raided the bootleggers and recovered a lot of stuff. Accused in court in and was duly punished."


Referring to the late Satya Sai Baba, which he considered his guru, Kaw says holy man once gifted a look of Kaw 's) of his mother - a look at the "unlike any other we had seen.


"It was not a bear or manufactuer` s address. It worked perfectly for a year. Then the way.


"One day we were all to make a watch shop in Central Bazar and Shimla. The Sikh mechanic opened the watch from behind and peered long innards with his magnifying eyepiece.


Then he gave a sigh and said: ":. 'Was that really work at what level it is a strange looking machine is not behind'!"

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