Famous Writer Aymal Raza's Exclusive Interview... Coming Soon Only at Shobywood

Famous Writer Aymal Raza's Exclusive Interview... Coming Soon Only at Shobywood

Purshootam, Saya e Gautam, Ibn e Maryam se keh do, KHUDA ke maujzey se... These lines still roam around my mind and give me chills since I have read them for the very first time. She is one of those very few writers who have achieved so much actually in the beginning of their writing career. The reason behind her immense fan following is her unorthodox writing style that makes her stand out from the lot. Reason why I praise her writing is because she is beyond these Saas-Bahu sagas. Whenever she writes it turns out to be either Taveez e Hubb or Piyaal Saaz. She is our very favorite fiction writer Ms. Aymal Raza.

All of her fans must have questions regarding how she writes & what does she think about her writing. Beside this, her fans would have been eager to know her own take on today's literature being written or read and they must have been looking for a place, where they can ask their favorite writer what they want to know about her. If this is the case with you, worry not, as Shobywood has the solution.

Believe it or not but yes the news is true. Ms. Aymal is coming very soon at our very own blog #Shobywood for an exclusive chit-chat. As many other first, this would be the very first time that she will be giving interview for an online global blog.

I thank Ms. Aymal for taking out time from her very busy schedule for the interview, which you all will surely be reading within few days. I know you all are going to kill me if I say, please wait. But believe me, you have to wait a little for this mega treat and I bet, this one is really worth waiting.

Keep visiting Shobywood for the updates.

Bharam (Aymal Raza)- Story Review by Shoby

Bharam (Aymal Raza)- Story Review by Shoby

D.H. Lawrence said, “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” (Lady Chatterley's Lover). Hasn't Lawrence explored a universal truth. Women are difficult to understand. Sorry, I should have said that this specie is immensely impossible to understand. At one point of time, they can be the the most dreadful of the entities who can devastate a generation of sorts and on another side, she would dare to do anything just for the sake of making her commitment tangible.

Aymal Raza has explored a general yet very interesting trait of the female fraternity in this short story. A women can take whatever difficulty she has to face in her life. She will go side by your side and will never make a complaint about anything bad coming in in front of her. She can bear any unprecedented incident in the journey of life, be it poverty, sickness or anything, however there is one oint which is beyond her tolerance level. She can never tolerate the betrayal. Danka V. talked about the same, “What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was what I felt" (The Unchosen Life).

Zubaida's married life started in the way just like the normal relationships starts. With colours of happiness of present and hopes for bright future. After having laid major portion of life with each other, a good 35 years to count, she parted ways, the reason best known to her only as she was not willing to disclose what happened in actual and the finale discloses a reasoning which takes the story on an entirely different level. Aik bharam aurat ka hota hai or aik dawa mard ka... Mujh mein itni himmat n ahi ke usey be'parda karu... Lakin us ne mera bharam tor diya hai...

Divorce, this word itself is haunting and Zubaida's condition was saying it loud that she has been divorced by the husband. Sir sabz zameen per saem or thaur ka safaida nazar aney laga... Excellent depiction of a recently divorced shattered women. Band bazar ki tarha weeran or udaas aurat...

Women can never be predicted and you can never assume what they actually have in their mind. She left her husband, (Fine... Acceptable) but see what she was up to, Main un larkon ke paas her bhi giz nahi jaon gi... Khoon to apney baap ka hi hai un ki ragon mein bhi... This shows how badly hurt she was from inside due to the behavioural attitude of her husband.

Aymal's writing flourishes quite beautifully in the narrative and there are many interesting one-liners which can seriously be termed as "Proverbs". She delved into the personality of Zubaida not only as a faithful wife but she also discovered many more aspects of her life especially her being a mother and a sister.

While talking to Khurram, out of no where she asks her Kaun hai woh larki??? What a true rendition of how a mother can gauge what is going inside her own children. Similarly, see how she reacts as a sister, the volume of trust she shows for her brother, a reliance which she can never have on anyone else except her very own brother. She not only came straight to him but also tells him the factual cause of leaving her husband. Well done Aymal Raza.

On the whole, Bharam is a fantastic short read and I can confidently say that it has that typical Aymal's touch in it. Read the complete story on Aymal's recently launched story collection "Sooraj Ke Paar".

Chup (Aymal Raza)- Fiction Review by Shoby

Chup (Aymal Raza)- Fiction Review by Shoby

First story of Aymal Raza's recently launched story collection Sooraj Ke Paar is Chup (The Silence). Let us analyse, what the story has in it for the readers.

In George Orwell's words, Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. Generation gap is something at truly defines the complexities in relationship between two persons. In this fast, pacey world, we usually are no more interested in taking care what our elders have to say. In fact, we categorically deny giving them due share of importance. May be this is hte reason why much of their feelings die within themselves.

Sadia, a wanna-be writer is striving so hard to construct a character sketch for an upcoming story competition but who can pay attention to this damn artistic work if someone as talkative as her Daadi was present to make a mess of everything. Her grand mother was fond of telling stories and she has had enough of this. So getting really irritated by her Daadi's long narration, she one day spoke out loud how badly she wanted her to remain silent and then Saadia found what she was searching for. Silence... But this silence was full of screams...

Scream of Silence:

Andheyara, 

Jeewan ko Sooni Raeyn Karey Hai.

Mere ander ki khamoshi

Oonchi oonchi awazon mein

Bayn karey hai

(Poet: Shahbaz Ali Naqvi)

Most of the times, we do not realise the importance of something in our life unless we are deprived of that very thing. And when it comes to living beings, it is needless to say that human beings cant live in isolation what-so-ever. They need someone who is a listener and they need someone who is their talking partner. I feel somewhere in the heart, both of them (Saadia and her grandmother) were looking for a listener cum speaker but the problem arise when quotient of one trait lead the other.

This short fiction is written in a very innocent way. Aymal has tried top kept the things pretty simple by using just two characters (ignoring a small cameo of father) in the narrative. I feel, Aymal has achieved the real objective within these three, four pages of writing, i.e. to highlight the importance of relationship.

Sooraj Ke Paar (Aymal Raza)- Introduction by Shoby

Sooraj Ke Paar (Aymal Raza)- Introduction by Shoby

Famous Scottish fiction writer Iain M. Banks said, “The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.” I believe this really sums up all. To say, writing fiction is difficult is a very mediocre term. To encompass what is really going on in the living society and writing it in an absolute make-believe manner is something marvellous and demands to be cherished.

Today, we have a handsome number of writers who are doing their best in their respective capacities and Aymal Raza is undoubtedly one of those who has invariably come up with diverse, sensitive & intriguing writing pieces in the recent times. After writing, magnificent novels Taveez e Hubb and Piyal Saaz, she has just launched her latest collection of short stories titled as Sooraj Ke Paar.

I believe, Aymal needs no introduction and so does her stories. She is one of those writer who does not want to reinvent the wheel times and again. She has always come up with assorted & novel ideas and has successfully executed them in a meaningful distinguished way. She really knows the secret recipe of writing a good fiction.

The book Sooraj Ke Paar consists of seventeen short stories that looks like a galaxy of their own ingrained beautifully. Every story is a separate universe with characters speaking their heart out of what they are going through. 

This feature is just a a teaser of what we have in the store for us in this collection. You will surely get to read my reviews on each of these stories very soon at my blog. Meanwhile, I suggest you not to wait and get your own copy of the book to have the real taste of this nice productive read.