Bajia's admirers pay tribute: 'We can say that we have lost our mom'

Bajia's admirers pay tribute: 'We can say that we have lost our mom'

                              

KARACHI: Dis­tinguished dramatist Fatima Surayya Bajia, who passed away on Feb 10, was let go in the Gizri burial ground, DHA Phase IV, on Thursday evening. 

Bajia's burial service petitions to God were offered after Zuhar supplications to God at 38D, Miran Mohammad Shah Road, Mohammad Ali Society. Aside from her relatives, many the writer's companions, admirers, partners and a major number of showbiz identities, government officials and researchers went to the burial service. 

Bajia's more youthful sibling, prominent essayist Anwar Maqsood, remained at a side of the house where Bajia put in her most recent couple of years, getting the bereaved people. They, alongside individuals from TV and print media, began streaming into the road no less than a few hours before the Namaz-i-janazah. 

Regardless of Mr Maqsood's solicitation to the media that they required not talk with him since he was not in a position to answer their inquiries, they didn't hear him out. What's more, when arrangements were under path for the Namaz, they hurried with their cameras close to the pine box, making a troublesome circumstance. 

Conversing with Dawn about Bajia, researcher Dr Nomanul Haq said: "It appears as though a critical period has lost its connection with our times. This inconveniences me. Bajia's demeanor, her temperament had certain musicality (halawat) to her, which was uncommon. In spite of the fact that the greater part of her work was for TV, what was key in each one of those plays was her identity itself which had a lot of sweetness (mithaas)." 

Performer Qazi Wajid explained: "Individuals like Bajia don't bite the dust. They live in their inventive interests." 

Underlining the noteworthiness of Bajia's vicinity in Pakistani society, writer Pirzada Qasim said: "There was nobody like Bajia. Now that she's no more, her nonappearance would be felt seriously. She composed a ton of notable plays, yet she herself was the focal character of the show and story of the way of life of our times." 

Television maker Ali Rizvi thought back about the times when Bajia worked for Karachi Television. He said: "Bajia was the main individual in our group that everybody, be it a young fellow or a prepared individual, felt open to conversing with. They used to look for her direction treating her like their mom. We can say that we have lost our mom." 

At the point when gotten some information about her specialty as an author, Mr Rizvi said: "What would I be able to say in regards to that. Awesome chiefs and makers have (gladly) worked with her. Her Afshan and Aroosa were two of the most important dramatization serials created by Pakistan Television. Similarly as I'm concerned, I just got the chance to coordinate two or three her dramatizations. She did the vast majority of her work with Qasim Jalali, Zaheer Khan and Haider Imam Rizvi." 

Modeler Arif Hasan, communicating his assessment on the era of authors and learned people that is quick vanishing, some of whom passed on as of late, and in light of which judgment was getting exhausted, said: "What we see today is an alternate sort of astuteness. The congruity that there was with history is no more. I think a ton has been composed about it." 

Bajia's soyem will be held today (Friday) at 38D, Mir Miran Mohammad Shah Road, Mohammad Ali Society, in the middle of Asr and Maghrib petitions to God