Lecture 17: 'चीफ की दावत' कहानी का भाव पक्ष

IIT Kanpur July 201
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Dec 1, 2023
you are once again welcome to this lecture series under the main Hindi Stories and
Indian Society course.
Today I will talk about the famous story writer Bhisham Sahni
's story Chief's Feast.
I will discuss in the first part of its two sides.
In this lecture I will discuss the material aspect of Chief's Feast
and in the next
lecture I will discuss its form aspect.
You all know that Bhishma Sahni was a
very important and popular storyteller of his time
that today Adi
and his Those who saw the partition of the country, those who
tested it, those who
grew up with his dreams,
buffalo fat loss is a big name among them,
you all know that he was the
younger brother of the famous cinema artist Balraj Sahni,
he named Tamas. Wrote a very
popular novel, which was widely discussed,
which is a novel written on the background of partition. Along
with the Tamas novel, he has many important famous
stories like Amritsar has come, Bhagya
Rekha Daayan, these stories
remained in the news in the same way. In the story that
brought them into discussion, the feast of the Chief of Front has
great importance. As far as the historicity of this story and
its sociality are concerned,
this story is deeply engaged in its social environment
because now the environment of partition was
different. But you see that
after independence or in the process of independence, the
conditions which were changing within the family and the ambition with which the hardworking people
were still developing, gave some indication of this. Premchand ji had already mentioned this in his story '
Buddhi Kaki'.
In the process of receiving the chief's feast, the story called 'Buddhi Kaki' that
comes to mind again and again
can be said that
this is a story from the family background
in which the whole fabric of this story is woven by an elderly woman who takes the mother as The
characters that come in front of this story are
government employees, government officers
but they are extremely ambitious,
so ambitious that they
call the sir to their house for their promotion. The whole story is like that
and the sir is that. It is English and American in that too,
how to invite him home, how to make
him happy by giving a feast, this entire
story has been created on this background, that is,
you can see that starting from within the family,
this story spreads to the
entire society. It shows a mirror to the whole society
which is a pain in the social interest and
also tries to underline what is social
because a person tries to establish his influence by getting
promoted by getting a big position and
not within the family but within the society. There are
characters in this story
who come before us in this story in the form of
ambitious characters who can share it very much. It does
n't happen that
one evening the thing is now called in your house with the front.
They invite him to a feast
and the house is being completely decorated for him, and
in the very beginning lines of the story it is
written that if as old as it
was normal, it would have to be hidden in a corner of the wall, behind the divan, behind the cupboards.
Efforts were being made and the process of introducing every new thing was
going on, so that when the gentleman
comes, he would be very happy with the artistry of his house due to his sense of aesthetics. The
husband and wife are busy on both sides and
remain engaged throughout the day. How to
decorate the house and when these people have almost decorated the house
then you remember
what will happen to the mother and this is the crux of the story from
where the story starts and it is only
here that we can explain it. The
whole story keeps going on and the story has
many layers of poignancy after poignancy, saying
that the Indian should sleep now, everything is
done, now he is worried about what will
happen to his mother, it starts here because I am
sorry, I am not very educated.
Now sir, it seems that if he has a conversation with his mother, then if he
comes to know about my backwardness then he should not think that my
mother is very backward, we
are cultured people and our impression should
be spread on his mind by the infection of the lost society. Because he said
yes to his ambitions and was sick,
Sahib told that he
is from a very elite school, he is a very big man,
his family is very big and he
has all the powers. Now the question arises, what would have happened to the mother if she had
become husband and wife?
Through the dialogues, through the
development of the characters, through the entry,
this story becomes deeper and deeper, every
layer moves into the realm of poignancy
and this is the nascent part of this story which
should be read not only by you but also by others. It must be
known that even amidst so much involvement,
if there is no place for the mother,
then who is there for and this is the part of this story,
this is the lesson of this story,
in which I will discuss again and again in this lecture. When he
stands here, his wife says
that now we have done this, let us do that, and
Samana says that I had told you, brother,
why should this younger brother be sent, that in
order to build your respect, younger brother, now it is
not us but you who has sent you. Do you know, it
often happens in families that there are
very few people who are very affluent, who
want to have old parents and want to
live with one of their brothers who
is not very affluent. Sent a little bit of ₹100 paisa.
But she is
not in a position to enter. This is the
tragedy of the Indian family. What will she do? But according to the
changing times and according to the changing reality,
these things have become more dense. The
storyteller has also targeted that
all this growth And then the wife would say,
what do I care about your brother, what do I care about your brother,
why am I going to be bad now, why should you
send your brother to your mother, the world should be
seen with this, I could not even see my mother at one
time, which is psychological realism society.
Well, as soon as he reads this story, it moves forward.
This process keeps moving forward
and the situation is such that
now if we
send him to the neighboring house, if we don't let him write now,
then it will get worse. Okay, listen, he will
do some juggling. I think the
first tip is that it should be stopped
because now drinking alcohol in the living room in the verandah
because the drinking party is an
abomination, then what happens is that
Mahisha will go to the living room and there will be a liquor party and the
mother will be called mother. They will be
placed in the room in front of the room, they will be made to
sit and when
we will move from the living room towards the verandah while eating food, then
through the bathroom or
through Vaastu, they will come to the living room. Now see
what kind of system it means. After watching the whole,
you will get angry towards Shamnath
and also a feeling of disgust will arise.
How much prosperity will you do with it?
Yes, you are so rich from within, friend, that
you will curse all your promotions, all your
jobs, this kind of situation and This
story creates again and again that in
order to satisfy that poor mother,
then we will only give her brokers in our cell or will
trouble her mind with problems,
then what will happen to you, this bad hope will
happen this year. That her mother snores
that Tanu should be locked in the closet so that the mask
dries and by writing the sound of the flour will go outside
and I am very bad but having an old
mother, this means that if I close her close, my
mother will be allowed to go. And
at the door of the closet, which is part of the verandah,
mother will be made to sit on the chair and the
mother will be made to sit on the chair and then mother will be
forced to stay awake until the
party is over when, ironically, it is
16 o'clock at 7:00 pm. The party is about to start, I do
n't know when the food will be served, now you know that
sir, if you have it, then there is bound to be a delay, we also
face this thing, we also know
that in this situation, the situation is that
you sit there and extend it and after that And
see how much more complexity is increasing in the story, Ma'am,
O mother, will you wear it or don't wear the society saree? Be
smart like this, if you want to
come in front of the sir, then you should
wear meek salwar and kameez and the same white,
mother says that I will never be a Muslim.
Why are you making me wear this yesterday
and this is what I am wearing for you and cut off the conversation Son, as per your wish,
mother is made to sit on the chair wearing salwar-kameez,
then facing the mind,
wear a little bangles and bangles also, if there is a context
which I will discuss further. On which she gets
angry that son,
all the bracelets, bangles and all the gold jewelery has been
sold in your studies, how come I have
so much to do today, now the situation of this story is so complicated,
which means complicated situation. So easily the
person of the story is
set, after listening, it fills the front and
many mothers, which tune did you start,
because you had pointed towards the truth, then it
means the son whom you are decorating,
for whom in the house. There is no space, it is he who has
made you worthy of this by selling all his jewels,
this story indicates that then when Samana
goes home, the mother says that the son
went out like this by mistake and this story goes on,
then suddenly when now 10 When it is 00 o'clock, she goes away and
then people get worse from the Lord's meeting,
then we see her sleeping and snoring there or sitting on the chair
and suddenly when the snoring
comes out in full force, it comes out from Pokhara. So, hanging on the left is a
very amazing work. The
storyteller portrayed this member with full pathos,
which I will discuss further. Sometimes
hanging on the left, sometimes hanging on the right, Tahir means from here, who
is holding the garland. If Sahib looks,
then Sahib's eyes fall on him. There is a mother who is
sitting on the right chair and is sitting on the
left and right. She goes to him in the
evening and
says English and asks
how are you doing
. Now mother is not able to understand anything.
What is the meaning of how to you, then Shamnath
makes joints at the place, teeth move back, mother
answers, then everything is fine, but mother is half
asleep and holds the soap with her
right hand. When she tries to hold it, she finds the
rosary in her right hand. But when Aastha continues to pray for the
good wishes of the child and
everything gets accomplished without
any hindrance, this situation
progresses further, but sir, his statement
was empty after all and how do you do is
very difficult. Se Mark Her Jo Her
Imitating Her It's Very Funny Her
Now This Is Well Read If You Are Not Well Read English You
Don't Know That One They Pronounced Her Sound
In Sound Space And Her How
To Do
Now This When Part Listen Read You
Laughter also comes and within that laughter a deep
pathos arises which
creates a feeling of disgust towards the encounter.
Part of asking how do you do, the answer
is getting how to do because the mother
imitated the sound. It is that Bigg Boss time when rice and
son are there again and again and after that the stories
move forward then people eat and drink their own then they ask
that sir asks even you
what is this famous of Punjab, this
is the story of Punjabi background and It turns out that the
question of Phulkari is very famous here, so it is clear
that Mother, make me Phulkari. You
must know Phulkari. Mother says that she lost her hand
in weeks of age and there is no light in her hand.
Now what will you make Phulkari of the old
Phulkari in front of her in front of the sir? When she keeps it in the kitchen
which gets torn, Sahab
likes it, then Saamana says to please Sahab
that I will make you a new phulkari,
don't worry, mother will
make the phulkari very well and after that,
after this, Sahab's So that if you sing a song to your mother, then after
singing a Punjabi song, Paneer Abhi Saamna
puts pressure on you again and again to sing the music, the
talk progresses and after this situation, the
mother goes to the closet and here the
party continues, leaving Saheb in
front of the When we come, we see that the mother is
crying and tears are flowing from her eyes,
that the mother is getting very angry, yes man,
the plates are near the ceiling, God is enjoying and on
seeing the son, the failed experiment, her son came and
kept feeling that I am You send me to Haridwar,
how old am I, you husband and wife should be happy, you have
kept me here under pressure to party every day,
now Shamnath's words felt bad, now there is a mother,
Kajol, the feeling of self-consciousness on the eyelids of mother is the same, the same
situation which you have returned story.
I am very confused when I heard about Gajadhar Babu
that
whatever I called his fingers, I sold them in my house to this son
and today Saamna has no place to keep me,
hence I have to take sannyasa and
go to Haridwar. If she respects you a lot,
then the story suddenly
takes a leap and while taking a leap, the story's
mode is
that it comes out of Saamna's mouth, 'Oh yes,
how will you go away now? Who will make Phulkari now?
You will make Phulkari, only then I will
get promotion because sir will get it in your
hands.' Haqqani has liked the phulkari cover very much. If you
see how full of selfishness is the
memorandum of the red storm of the underworld in
front of your hand
and it is representing the new generation there, Haqqani
is also important for this reason that the
new method is in this story. If he is to be read,
he should avoid the character defects of Samnath, cultivate
his values and try to
make his mother strong by going to his mother's place. By
living in this place, his mother had
made him capable of becoming an officer. This is the story of this.
Then there is a situation where mother becomes very sad and sad
that the
place of neglect and contempt which was very painful reaches to such a state
that after a lot of pleading, it was
finished, I will get promotion if
you make phulkari, mother would say. Is it
true that by making Phulkari you will get
promotion and then the story is written
that the love and affection that a mother has for her son
starts making waves that as soon as our hand made
Phulkari is considered as a sir Cook will make me a big
officer, will promote me,
son, then you will definitely make Phulkari for us,
if you get promotion then I will definitely
make this and the story ends from here.
Now you see
how deep pathos is its content. That the
moon is an object,
that a living human being has become like a servant,
that the mother has become a means of extracting something instead of being an embodiment of affection and compassion, that the
mother has
become a medium of promotion rather than a substitute for dedication,
this is the content of the story. Which is
visible from within the plot, in the sense that you will
see that this story is very valuable. Now
let's move ahead and talk a little about the atmosphere of this story
and
I want to tell you about some of the parts of the atmosphere
because it The story is actually a
story that goes beyond subjectivity and is a painful tale of sociality and which, you know,
tells the story of the tragedy of an old woman's life, which also becomes a story of Shamnath's opportunism,
good ambition and immorality,
in which the mother is constantly trying to protect her son.
While the son is
neglecting his mother and getting trapped in unnecessary respect, the
son does not understand that
whatever he has organized today,
his mother is in control of it and And there is
such a wonderful spread of the middle of the same mother, in fact, in the
form of a tree, it has been hiding its roots, in
this way you can say that this
story is also the story of the separation of the tree from the seed
and despite the neglect in this story The
way a mother's love has been shown is
very important for the new generation
and is also the basis of inspiration for them.
Now, if you see the atmosphere of this story, it is in a
way a reflection of the conflict between the old generation and the new
generation. There
is a developing environment within in which the
mother remains a famous character in the older generation and he
repeatedly tries to show that the
storyteller is in this environment that the smell is
not a household item, it should not be protected, it should be taken
care of, there is only the medium. It is
not enough that he is a producer and the role of that producer should be
appreciated. In this way
you will see that the atmosphere of the story
is very inspiring in the beginning and
in the very first sentence the author writes that today there is a
Chief's feast at Mr. Shamnath's house. And it is
obvious that there is a complete tension in the house regarding the Chief's party, there is
movement from one room to another,
so the environment of this story is very
tense and this tension is
tied outside what happened. It increases
what will ultimately happen to the mother and such a
situation is that within the environment of this story,
you know that the character of the story
and its reality develop.
This story of the country, you know that it
is character-oriented, encounter and then character. An
attempt has been made to tell it out but the
way Bhishma Sahni has underlined the character of the mother, the
character is
very deeply connected to her environment and in reality it is the
party environment of Kiska Ki
which includes the intoxication of whiskey. I am feeling
happy seeing the mood of the sir,
then while passing through the verandah, the sir's eyes
fall on the mother and she is taking care of her mother and
Jin Jo is sitting on the chair,
whose neck is hanging on the right side, this
is the snoring. The hanging of the neck, the
drunken sir
passing through the verandah, all this further thickens the atmosphere of this story
and marries that entire
darkness with the atmosphere of the story. The
environment
becomes dark and in which a mother
keeps getting immersed,
but if someone can come out of that darkness
and due to which the atmosphere of the story
is seen moving from darkness to light,
then that person is included in it, that sir is
included. In order to please the mother, the mother is
neglected
that the sir who did not expect this was an
American, this was not expected from him that in order to
hide it from her the mother
was constantly being tried to make things, here the
sir Nature and self-confrontation thoughts are also
worth seeing, the one who makes
his mother an object and makes her
sit on a chair to please his master, whereas
when the master falls in front of that mother, he is attracted by his mother
's nature and his attractions. He himself gets
overwhelmed, so here you can see
that the
character of two people in the midst of a dark and torturous environment of American Sahib, on
one hand, Shamnath, who has
made his mother a bundle, shines within it. I have thrown the year in the corner
and on the other side there is that Englishman
who gets thrilled as soon as I measure and see him, he is
very nice to her and now he talks to her lovingly
and he says, Saamana, why are you
worried, mother, this is how I am. Mother is
also bad like that I adore my mother a
lot.
If you think that the
person whose flattery kept him away from his mother
is Sarnath and kept neglecting him inside the house.
When Vashishtha Saheb praised his mother. On the
front side of it, the seventh Isma has also praised
that after taking its phulkari,
what would have happened on the empire, now I can sleep
almost, the
praise of my mother by the sir
who is praise of my mother
and also deep towards this month.
This story was a big slap on the face of Sympathy Ka Saamna.
In this sense, it is also the story of this show.
Now further you see that the characters develop from within this,
which is not different. The
strength of this story is that
within the environment It is from this that the characters develop
and in these characters, the man I told
comes forward, he makes a very one-sided
decision, becomes a kind of Lal ji, a kind of
character in the stories and a kind of backward mind, who fills these stories
which is new. Despite being a representative character of the generation, he was
not able to save his fame and respect,
and on being asked a small question, she asked
him, "Son,
you are doing this after sleeping, juice bangle bracelet,
all this is your normal behavior." This study is also gone and
he bursts out that where did you fall and
sit with
all that I have taken from you, I have given
you all and while saying this, don't you feel ashamed and
boss, what did you ask from you, did you return it to your mother
? Can the mother's
sacrifice and dedication to her love be
returned?
This story asks the question that no one in
this world can repay the price of a mother's love.
This story also tells this
or wipes it out. It is our own in front of us or
speaks in please language, where should I find it, this only
calms down the difference that mother's questions
become the answers of the times and that answer does
not come from anywhere else, in the same way and
through that American character who came out of the party. The one
who does something to the mother,
sees the mother feeding and praises the mother, praises
her qualities,
copes well with her mother,
this is the character of the story
and lives in this situation, which is the whole environment of
depression. There was a state of euphoria
and depression, all of which
brings the atmosphere of this story out of depression,
because as soon as Saheb leaves, the
incident of Phulkari comes again and then his
selfish and plundering people are his own, Shamnath.
He becomes visible in front of me
and goes and enters the mother's lap, it is very
fun, he hangs himself by surrendering and you
save me, but if you want, I will be promoted
and the mother says, son, go, if
you are getting promoted. I will definitely
make phulkari, here I don't have much light in my eyes,
mother fry, but look at the character of that mother,
even after facing so much torture, she was dedicated to the well-being of her son. On the other hand, there
is the son who is constantly
running away from his mother. Because the main content of this story is based on the fact
that the new generation should
not be disruptive, it should not be selfish,
it should respect its mother's lap and her milk
and this story gives the same message
that No matter how big we become, whether we become capable of
breaking the stars in the sky, whether we walk
on the moon or go to Mars, but
remember, if you do not have mother's love or
mother is also the main thing for you or for some reason you are deprived of mother, then
you deliberately So the deprivation
happens naturally and deliberately that if you
distance yourself from your mother, you will
live in any corner of this galaxy, but the mother's will
always trouble you, that is
why this story inspires the people of the new age.
And she says that there is
no need to be confrontational, she is
devoted to her mother because she is familiar with her nature and no matter how big your house is,
how big the pack you are entitled to, whether you are a
billionaire or a millionaire, whatever,
but for your mother, you are dedicated to her. A will
definitely keep one copy safe in the huge complex, this is the
message of this story. You listen to it uncle,
thank you very much
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