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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, NameGoesHere said:

Nissim Eziekiel?

Right you are! That was a tough one.

Maybe clue 3 gave it away. 'Promised Land' = Israel.

Fan of his work?

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Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, punjabi_khota said:

chalti ka naam gaadi

Right. 

More specifically "Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi si"

 

P_K do not google. :nono: 

 

@coffee_rules got it right too!

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Posted
50 minutes ago, Mariyam said:

Right you are! That was a tough one.

Maybe clue 3 gave it away. 'Promised Land' = Israel.

Fan of his work?

2 was obvious.  Read it a long time ago and had forgotten all about it.  Not a fan of poets of that period- save maybe Kolatkar. 

Posted
36 minutes ago, punjabi_khota said:

Is that Aditya Chopra at 2:18 ?

Now that you mention it, there is an uncanny resemblance to Aditya Chopra.

 

But no! That isn't the celebrity cameo.

Posted
27 minutes ago, NameGoesHere said:

2 was obvious.  Read it a long time ago and had forgotten all about it.  Not a fan of poets of that period- save maybe Kolatkar. 

I don't want to sound like a prude, but Kolatkar was far too crass for my liking. Perpetually angry poetry. I've read just Jejuri as a part of an anthology of Indian English language poets of that era.

Posted
1 minute ago, coffee_rules said:

Apart from Aaditya, in the end it has Yash Chopra

Siddharth Kak and wife at :46

 

Sahi Jawab.

Yash Chopra and Pamela Chopra at the end.

 

I didn't know about Siddharth Kak!

Posted (edited)
9 minutes ago, Mariyam said:

I don't want to sound like a prude, but Kolatkar was far too crass for my liking. Perpetually angry poetry. I've read just Jejuri as a part of an anthology of Indian English language poets of that era.

Oh I think him wonderful; excellent imagery,  to me he defined how (even via translations) Indians could write poetry in English. 

 

Not the rhyming bland fare of Sarojini Naidu, the neither -here-nor-there of Ezikiel, or the 'non' Indian verse of Moraes.

 

He was as spare and as elegant as the best haikus sometimes.

 

And as for crass, that's one of the reasons I liked him.    I don't want to mess up your thread but I'd have quoted his entire poem, the one that begins: 

 

मै भाभीको बोला  

क्या भाईसाबके ड्यूटीपे मै आ जाऊ ?

 

:laugh:

 
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