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DELHI, Dec. 2 –
“Rotten life! Rotten relationships! Strip
every moment to stark nakedness,” says actress
Deepti Naval in her poem Black Wind. Naval read
stanzas from her collections of poems Black Wind
today at the Oxford Bookstore.
Accomplished actress, painter
and an amateur photographer, Ms Naval said, “My
poetry is about life and death. It has dark as
well as bright shades. The poems were written
during a period when my personal life was going
through turbulence. This is reflected in my poetry
also.”
Deepti Naval who acted in the award winning Hindi
film Mirch Masala, believes that writing poetry
is no different from acting. “I just gather
impressions from around the place and put the
same on paper,” said Ms Naval. Some of the
poems are about her sojourn experiences of trekking
expedition in the Zanskar valley in Ladakh.
Her poems are also about discrimination and problems
that women face in society. “In The Silent
Scream, I tried to capture the emotions of women
who are suffering from mental depression,”
she added. A special mention is made in the book
about her visit to a mental hospital in order
to study her role for the film Ankahi.
During the poetry reading session, the poet came
out in full colours and presented the poems with
emotion. She has written poems on the people who
have influenced her. Her poems also talk about
her relationship, including her friendship with
Smita Patil.
“Deepti
is a woman of many talents, who has written even
in Urdu,” said writer and social activist,
Mrs Urvashi Butalia. Ms Malika Sarabhai, who was
present on the occasion, said a dance performance
based on the poems of Ms Deepti Naval would be
held at the theatre called Natarani in Ahmedabad.
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