Play on Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's life to be staged today

BHOPAL: A play ‘Bol, Ke Lab Azaad Hai Tere’ on the life and works of legendary Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, will be staged at Bharat Bhawan in the city on Sunday.
“The play is based on Faiz and his life,” said play’s writer Parvez Ahmed.
Faiz's classics became part of the pop culture through ghazal’s sung by the likes of Noor Jahan, Mehdhi Hasan and Abida Parveen among others.
The one-and-half-an-hour long play is directed by Lokendra Trivedi. Trivedi and two dozen cast members arrived in the city on Saturday. “Some of the members are from the National School of Drama and form the same group, which performed the play early in Delhi last December,” he added.
The play would start at Bharat Bhawan on Sunday at 6.30 pm.