TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chugtai, Ismat
TI  - A very strange man
SN  - 9789388070799
U1  - 891.4393 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd
N2  - This brilliant translation of Ismat Chughtai’s original Urdu novel Ajeeb Aadmi is the riveting story of Dharam Dev, the famous actor, director and producer, and his all-consuming and doomed passion for Zarina Jamal, the young dancer from Madras whom he brings to Bombay and transforms into a charismatic actress. He looks on in anguish as his betrayed wife, Mangala, a well-known playback singer, sinks slowly into alcoholism. When Zarina abandons him, he is overwrought and dies of an overdose, friendless and alone
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