By Nahmita Kohli - Express India - New Delhi, India
Friday, March 23, 2007
Rumi-nating on Soul: with a musical, a movie and a Sufi journal, the city of New Delhi is ready to celebrate mystic poet Rumi
Unveil the Sun is a musical based on the eponymous book by scholar Amrit Kent.
The musical will be staged at 7 pm at Stein auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India, on March 24 and 25.
Says Theatre artist Sohaila Kapur: “Rumi was the messenger of love. In modern times when terrorism and strife have taken over, his works have assumed a greater relevance. His appeal is universal.”
The 110-minute musical is based on the friendship between Rumi and the dervish Shams Tabrizi, whose murder — believed to be with the connivance of Rumi’s jealous son Allaedin — led to an outpouring of spiritual verses and ghazals. Searching Tabrizi in Damascus, Rumi wrote, “Why should I seek? I am the same as He.”
When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.— Epitaph on Rumi’s tomb at Konya, Turkey
Eight hundred years after Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi danced and sang about Love and God in the streets and vineyards of Konya, modern culturatti are still tracking his footprints, searching his soul in translations and erecting little memorials of their own.
Rumi is on MySpace and Madonna’s lips, listened to by Deepak Chopra and Demi Moore. Somehow, he still makes sense.
As UNESCO celebrates the International Year of Rumi, Delhi — that has been chosen as one of the centres for celebration — is gearing up for it with a musical, a movie and more.
Septuagenarian scholar Amrit Kent says : “People all over the world are rediscovering Rumi’s poems, but in India, the awareness is still in a nascent stage.” Kent, a member of the Red Rose Society, a congregation of scholars who celebrate Sufism, would like to translate the play into Urdu. There are also plans to take it to the Peerzada festival in Pakistan in November.
Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali, who has been working on a film on Rumi for two years now, plans to release it this year. “The events that are happening in the run-up to the release are creating a good atmosphere for the film,” says Ali, whose upcoming festival of Sufi music, Jahan-e-Khusrau, will feature Rumi’s verses.
“Under the Rumi foundation, we will also bring out a Sufi journal,” he says. By September 30, when the world celebrates Rumi’s birth anniversary, the words on his tomb would have come true.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Rumi-nating on Soul: with a musical, a movie and a Sufi journal, the city of New Delhi is ready to celebrate mystic poet Rumi
Unveil the Sun is a musical based on the eponymous book by scholar Amrit Kent.
The musical will be staged at 7 pm at Stein auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India, on March 24 and 25.
Says Theatre artist Sohaila Kapur: “Rumi was the messenger of love. In modern times when terrorism and strife have taken over, his works have assumed a greater relevance. His appeal is universal.”
The 110-minute musical is based on the friendship between Rumi and the dervish Shams Tabrizi, whose murder — believed to be with the connivance of Rumi’s jealous son Allaedin — led to an outpouring of spiritual verses and ghazals. Searching Tabrizi in Damascus, Rumi wrote, “Why should I seek? I am the same as He.”
When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.— Epitaph on Rumi’s tomb at Konya, Turkey
Eight hundred years after Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi danced and sang about Love and God in the streets and vineyards of Konya, modern culturatti are still tracking his footprints, searching his soul in translations and erecting little memorials of their own.
Rumi is on MySpace and Madonna’s lips, listened to by Deepak Chopra and Demi Moore. Somehow, he still makes sense.
As UNESCO celebrates the International Year of Rumi, Delhi — that has been chosen as one of the centres for celebration — is gearing up for it with a musical, a movie and more.
Septuagenarian scholar Amrit Kent says : “People all over the world are rediscovering Rumi’s poems, but in India, the awareness is still in a nascent stage.” Kent, a member of the Red Rose Society, a congregation of scholars who celebrate Sufism, would like to translate the play into Urdu. There are also plans to take it to the Peerzada festival in Pakistan in November.
Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali, who has been working on a film on Rumi for two years now, plans to release it this year. “The events that are happening in the run-up to the release are creating a good atmosphere for the film,” says Ali, whose upcoming festival of Sufi music, Jahan-e-Khusrau, will feature Rumi’s verses.
“Under the Rumi foundation, we will also bring out a Sufi journal,” he says. By September 30, when the world celebrates Rumi’s birth anniversary, the words on his tomb would have come true.
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By Nahmita Kohli - Express India - New Delhi, IndiaFriday, March 23, 2007
Rumi-nating on Soul: with a musical, a movie and a Sufi journal, the city of New Delhi is ready to celebrate mystic poet Rumi
Unveil the Sun is a musical based on the eponymous book by scholar Amrit Kent.
The musical will be staged at 7 pm at Stein auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India, on March 24 and 25.
Says Theatre artist Sohaila Kapur: “Rumi was the messenger of love. In modern times when terrorism and strife have taken over, his works have assumed a greater relevance. His appeal is universal.”
The 110-minute musical is based on the friendship between Rumi and the dervish Shams Tabrizi, whose murder — believed to be with the connivance of Rumi’s jealous son Allaedin — led to an outpouring of spiritual verses and ghazals. Searching Tabrizi in Damascus, Rumi wrote, “Why should I seek? I am the same as He.”
When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.— Epitaph on Rumi’s tomb at Konya, Turkey
Eight hundred years after Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi danced and sang about Love and God in the streets and vineyards of Konya, modern culturatti are still tracking his footprints, searching his soul in translations and erecting little memorials of their own.
Rumi is on MySpace and Madonna’s lips, listened to by Deepak Chopra and Demi Moore. Somehow, he still makes sense.
As UNESCO celebrates the International Year of Rumi, Delhi — that has been chosen as one of the centres for celebration — is gearing up for it with a musical, a movie and more.
Septuagenarian scholar Amrit Kent says : “People all over the world are rediscovering Rumi’s poems, but in India, the awareness is still in a nascent stage.” Kent, a member of the Red Rose Society, a congregation of scholars who celebrate Sufism, would like to translate the play into Urdu. There are also plans to take it to the Peerzada festival in Pakistan in November.
Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali, who has been working on a film on Rumi for two years now, plans to release it this year. “The events that are happening in the run-up to the release are creating a good atmosphere for the film,” says Ali, whose upcoming festival of Sufi music, Jahan-e-Khusrau, will feature Rumi’s verses.
“Under the Rumi foundation, we will also bring out a Sufi journal,” he says. By September 30, when the world celebrates Rumi’s birth anniversary, the words on his tomb would have come true.
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