Birthday Special: My first and last scene with Shabana Azmi

I was lucky enough to be associated with Mr. Abbas when he was about to make a film called “Fasla”, which I later learned of a modern version of Awara, which he had written for his friend Raj Kapoor. Mr. Abbas (I am writing Mr. Abbas because I have certainly felt that I have not given him respect and I must express my gratitude to him for all that he has done for me) has introduced two new actors in the film, Shabana. Azmi, daughter of his friend and well-known poet Kaifi Azmi, who had dropped out of FTII with a gold medal in acting, and Raman Khanna whose only ambition was to be “at least a third of Rajesh Khanna”. , which were eccentric at times. Mr. Abbas appointed me as his “literary assistant”, only for reasons he knew best. When I finally dared to ask him why he gave me this title, he said, it was because I was the only accustomed assistant he had.