Their life together is also the subject of a book, Amrita Imroz: A Love Story. She spent the last forty years of her life with Imroz, who also designed most of her book covers and made her the subject of his several paintings. When another woman, singer Sudha Malhotra came into Sahir’s life, Amrita found solace in the companionship of the renowned artist and writer Imroz. She is also said to have an unrequited affection for poet Sahir Ludhianvi. The story of this love is depicted in her autobiography, Rasidi Ticket (Revenue Stamp). In 1935, Amrita married Pritam Singh, son of a leading hosiery merchant of Lahore’s Anarkali bazaar.
AMRITA PRITAM RASIDI TICKET MOVIE
Renowned theatre person and the director of the immortal partition movie ‘Garam Hava’, MS Sathyu paid a theatrical tribute to her through the rare theatrical performance ‘Ek Thee Amrita’. She also worked at Lahore Radio Station for a while, before the partition of India. This study centre cum library is still running at Clock Tower, Delhi. She was also involved in social work to certain extent and participated in such activities wholeheartedly, after Independence when social activist Guru Radha Kishan took the initiative to bring the first Janta Library in Delhi, which was inaugurated by Balraj Sahni and Aruna Asaf Ali and contributed to the occasion accordingly. Though she began her journey as romantic poet, soon she shifted gears, and became part of the Progressive Writers’ Movement and its effect was seen in her collection, Lok Peed(People’s Anguish) (1944), which openly criticized the war-torn economy, after the Bengal famine of 1943. Her first anthology of poems, Amrit Lehran (Immortal Waves) was published in 1936, at age sixteen, the year she married Pritam Singh, an editor to whom she was engaged in early childhood, and changed her name from Amrita Kaur to Amrita Pritam. Half a dozen collections of poems were to follow between 19. Confronting adult responsibilities, and besieged by loneliness following her mother’s death, she began to write at an early age. Soon after, she and her father moved to Lahore, where she lived till her migration to India in 1947. Amrita’s mother died when she was eleven. Besides this, he was a pracharak – a preacher of the Sikh faith. The Padma Shri came her way in 1969 and finally, Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award, in 2004, and in the same year she was honoured with India’s highest literary award, given by the Sahitya Akademi (India’s Academy of Letters), the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship given to the “immortals of literature”for lifetime achievement.Īmrita Pritam was born as Amrit Kaur in 1919 in Gujranwala, Punjab, in present-day Pakistan, the only child of a school teacher, a poet and a scholar of Braj Bhasha, Kartar Singh Hitkari, who also edited a literary journal. Known as the most important voice for the women in Punjabi literature, in 1956, she became the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for her magnum opus, a long poem, Sunehade (Messages), later she received the Bharatiya Jnanpith, one of India’s highest literary awards, in 1982 for Kagaz Te Canvas (The Paper and the Canvas). When the former British India was partitioned into the independent states of India and Pakistan in 1947, she migrated from Lahore, to India, though she remained equally popular in Pakistan throughout her life, as compared to her contemporaries like Mohan Singh and Shiv Kumar Batalvi. As a novelist, her most noted work was Pinjar (The Cage) (1950), in which she created her memorable character, Puro, an epitome of violence against women, loss of humanity and ultimate surrender to existential fate the novel was made into an award-winning film, Pinjar in 2003. She is most remembered for her poignant poem, Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu (Today I invoke Waris Shah – “Ode to Waris Shah”), an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet, anĮxpression of her anguish over massacres during the partition of India. With a career spanning over six decades, she produced over 100 books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were translated into several Indian and foreign languages. She is considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both sides of the India-Pakistan border.
Amrita Pritam (31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005) was an Indian writer and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi.
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